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Questions tagged [music-player]

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What makes a portable mp3 player work well with Linux?

I'm in the market for a new portable mp3-player, and will be connecting it mostly to a Linux box, but occasionally to a Windows Vista machine as well. I'm wondering what qualities I should be looking for in a music player that suggest good out of…
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Minimalistic terminal music player that can play all my files randomly

I'm looking for a terminal music player. mpg321/mpg123 is quite what I need, but it can't play all my music directory (which contains child directories). cmus seems to be a bit of an overkill, as there are a lot of features I never use. I just need…
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Music player with random song command

I recently migrated from Windows, where I've been using Foobar2000 for a long time. I've been looking for a music player that replaces a feature I considered basic. What I need is a player that has a play random song command (which can be sent from…
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Pause music while screen is locked

I was wondering whether it is possible to pause a music player (in my case Rhythmbox), by pressing a button, while the screen is locked. I would assume no, but I thought I'd ask. A short example: If the screensaver goes on the music continues. But…
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How do I add ncmpcpp search results to the current playlist?

Using the ncmpcpp MPD client, in the search function (F4) how can I add all the search results to the current playlist short of adding each item one-by-one? For example, say I search for all music where genre == "instrumental". The help tells us to…
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Which was the very first music player application for Linux?

I'm writing an article about FOSS and Linux music players. What was the very first music player application for Linux? Was there ever a time when the players didn't support proprietary formats like MP3s?
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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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Refresh cache in cmus

I started using cmus recently. After adding a music directory if I change any tag of any music files like album name etc. the info in cmus doesn't change. Even if I do :clear and then again :add ~/Music. How do I refresh this cache in cmus?
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Playing audio tracks through S/PDIF or Toslink with track marks

I recently got a MiniDisc recorder and I'd like to put some music on it from my PC (running Arch). Back in the old days, one could copy CDs over to MD or DAT by hooking up a CD player to a recorder through S/PDIF or TOSLINK. The audio stream would…
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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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What is a good alternative to iTunes on Linux?

I use iTunes primarily to sync music to my iPod, but other than that I use it to play music as opposed to streaming like Pandora or Spotify. I'm trying to completely convert from Win7 to Fedora and if I was able to have my music in a Linux…
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Choosing directories searched by GNOME Music app

The GNOME "Music" app says it searches my Music folder (e.g. it says this in the message you see when the directory is empty). However it does not follow symbolic links inside ~/Music/ to other directories. I already have a hierachy of music files. …
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How to play a MIDI file in Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon (using any audio player)?

I'm trying to play a MIDI file in my Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon. I just open the MIDI file with any music player and it says it requires a plugin named gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, so I click "Install" and then nothing happens, the player can't play the…
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Windows Media Audio 9 player plugin- something for linux

I need something to play WMA radio. Do you know any way of doing this on linux?
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Is there a way to convert flac files to ape?

I need to convert flac files to ape. Googled for that topic, but seems like ape file is outdated, so no solution was found. Any tools, ideas to resolve the problem?
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