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Clementine does not play next song when logged in with another user

I've set up PulseAudio to mix sound from different users as explained in this other question, and it works for me. But I still have one problem: Log in with user A. Open Clementine and start playing ...
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Is there a better mplayer command line interface, or another good CLI music player? [closed]

I generally prefer to do things on the command line when I can. Mplayer is a great tool for playing all sorts of media, but the command line interface sucks. Some things I'd like to see in a CLI media ...
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Is there a music player that will automatically mute when other audio starts playing? [closed]

I find myself listening to music while I use my computer, and constantly pausing and un-pausing the music when I watch a video on youtube, open up a game, or any other task that needs audio. Do any ...
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How do I play a particular playlist with mpc?

I am using mpd with mpc for all my music needs. Now, what I want to ask is how to load/play songs from a particular playlist in mpc/mpd so that it only plays those song. For example, I created a ...
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Foobar2000 on linux

Does anyone successfully run Foobar2000 on linux ( under Wine ) ? Are there any alternatives with a similar philosophy, and maybe even with the ability to use the Foobar2000 plugins ?
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Music Player Daemon not working, no songs playing

So I just installed MPD together with MPC and NCMPCPP but I can't get it to work. There is 1 song in the database, according to NCMPCPP (Show server info) but there are no Artists or Albums. I ...
34 votes
9 answers
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Any beat detection software for Linux? [closed]

Amarok 2 can search through music collection using ID3v2 tag's 'bpm' field. That would be very nice to retag the entire music collection so I can find the 'mood' of the track I like. However I've not ...
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how to play audio files with crossfading on Linux?

Is it possible to play audio files with a crossfading effect (track i fades out, track i+1 fades in) on Linux? A special case is when a single track is repeated in an endless loop. I'm using mplayer, ...
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Are there any Linux MPD (music player daemon) player alternatives for a network music server / player [closed]

Are there any reasonable alternatives to MPD (music player daemon) as a remotely controlled music player? It should be controllable over the network and not require X server to run.
2 votes
1 answer
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Setting ID3 "album artist" to be equal to "artist - album" combined

I tried to do it with EasyTAG but it doesn't seem to be possible. I'm going to create a big compilation of music and every song is from different artist and album.
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How to copy music collection to Windows Phone 8 from Linux

So I recently received a Lumia 520. How can I install music from my existing collection to Windows Phone? Difficulty level: I don't have a Windows "host" for it. I've got Fedora Linux on my laptop. ...
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Simple way to cut FLAC in Linux?

I'm looking for the simplest way to cut music in Linux (Fedora 25). It would be excellent if there's a command line option for doing something like: cut OriginalSong.FLAC -start 4m30s -end 5m15s >...
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are there any programs beside MPD that could be run in a headless server, and autoDJ files while streaming to icecast or shoutcast? [closed]

I'm looking for a broadcasting source that could be managed in a linux server without GUI. either with commandline, or web-based. I need it to randomly select my audio files and stream them to ...
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3 answers
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How can I count the number of folders in a specific folder level using Linux terminal?

I have a very specific directory tree on my music library. I would like to count all of the albums, excluding all the subdirectories. For instance, given this directory tree: /music/ /music/Davis, ...
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Dump audio metadata (album title, track number, etc.) to command line

If I open an audio file with Audacity or Rhythmbox, for example, I can look at the metadata tags such as Artist Name, Track Title, Year, etc. . Is there a convenient way to do this on the command ...

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