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Questions tagged [music]

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How do I play an HTTP music stream over SSH?

I know I can just do mplayer to open and play a stream on the local machine. However, I'm behind a firewall. Instead, I'd like to open the stream on a remote machine, but still play it on this one. Remote connections are what SSH is for,…
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convert WAV music library to FLAC on command line and achieve best quality

I would like to produce (nearly) perfect FLAC files by verifying/checking all conversion steps. I'm hoping to do this in a single command, although a short bash script would be acceptable as a second choice. I am on Kubuntu 12.04 and I installed…
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How to set metadata for music files?

In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data that Windows Explorer extracts using a MP3 reader…
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Remove duplicate mp3 with different name, size, and hash

I have a massive music library (all mp3), but I some of the music is almost the same but: Maybe one or two second longer About 97% the same as another song Or another bitrate. Is there a way to find these duplicates? As mentioned they don't have…
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Command-line software for playlist syncing to Android Phone?

I'm looking for a way to sync music to my Android Phone without having to load something like banshee. I know there are plenty of ways to sync files, but I'm interested in syncing playlists and having the playlists dictate which files are synced.
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Linux support for RTP-MIDI?

I have been spoiled by the ease with which I can connect my iPad up to MIDI applications on my Macbook using the native support for midi-over-the-network (apparently RTP-MIDI) provided by the CoreMIDI subsystem in both OS X and iOS. Is there a…
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How to detect real sample size and number of channels in WAV file?

I've got this wonderful conundrum with a WAV file, whereas I cannot detect it's actual sample size (i.e. how many bits are in a sample) and the number of channels. geek@liv-inspiron:~$ soxi file.wav Input File : 'file.wav' Channels :…
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Google Play Music media keys not working 14.04?

Whenever I try pause or next/previous on Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, nothing happens. No other music apps are open, and I have it set to global in Chrome. What should I do?
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Mass ID3 tag editor like vorbistagedit?

My favorite tool for batch editing of vorbis comments is vorbistagedit. I can do vorbistagedit *.ogg and it lets me edit the metadata in all my ogg files at once in my favorite editor (emacs). I'm wondering if there is a tool that works in a similar…
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How to see the iTunes shared library from Linux Banshee?

I'm trying to see my friend's Mac iTunes library through Banshee and can't get it to work. The daap is already installed and i still can't list their musics. Is there a way to make this work on Ubuntu?
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How do I get rid of unnecessary mp3 tags in my music library?

I have a massive bunch of music. Some of the tracks have unnecessary MP3 flags. How can I get rid of them?
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Anyone know a dynamic lyric display application for mpd that works on Arch Linux?

I'm looking for a dynamic lyric display app, not like in sonata, static display in a tab, but dynamic ones, show corresponding lines as the music plays
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Open-Source Audio Playlist 'Standard'

I know there are quite a few types of audio/music playlists out in the wild. Are there any that are specifically approved as FLOSS? That is, are there are that are particularly encouraged by the FSF, like how .ogg is an encouraged audio container…
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Shuffle Using SoX?

Is there anyway to shuffle songs using play on a folder using SoX? play ~/Music/*/**
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Compare two audio files

I would like to make sort kind of "speech recognition" system. The goal is to compare a new recording with an original audio file, and if the sound is > x% similar, do something. Is there already a tool doing something similar ?
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