Questions tagged [music]
Questions about managing, listening to, or creating music.
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Gnome Music Player not showing songs in music folder?
My Gnome Music Player isn't showing the mp3 files that I have in my ~/Music folder. I have tried changing the search and indexing with tracker-preferences to make sure it searches the Music folder but ...
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How can I shift the frequency of everything that comes out of my speakers?
Let's say I'm jamming on my guitar with a song I'm listening to on YouTube. It's a song that is tuned a half step down. I would like to play that song half a step higher so I don't have to keep re-...
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Sort MP3-Collection Into Subfolders
My music collection is all in mp3's and almost perfectly tagged. It's currently in a music folder sorted by [artist] and subfolders for the [albums].
I have got a lot of artists and genres, so I ...
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Fixing garbled id3v2 tags with incorrect encoding using mid3v2
I have been using id3v2 to automatically tag music files (title, album, artist).
While id3v2 displays the metadata correctly, other players do not - here I have an example of issues with À/è/û and ...
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Prevent Music.app from starting on F8 (play) button (osx 10.15)
I want to control Spotify using the function key media shortcuts, but Music.app opens instead of Spotify playing (even though Spotify is open already.
How can I prevent Music.app from listening to ...
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Is there a way to automatically bulk-update specific ID3 fields in MP3s but leave other fields untouched?
I have thousands of MP3s which are missing the "Year" ID3 field which means I can't sort albums chronologically.
I'm looking for a way to automatically download ID3 metadata in bulk and populate only ...
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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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Gnome music pop-up window on Ubuntu 14.04
I recently installed Gnome music on a Ubuntu 14.04 system with Unity desktop. However, there is a peculiar issue. Every time I play a song several windows pop up (six same windows for each song). So ...
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How do I find songs that I've hearted/favorited in Apple Music?
If I'm listening to a song and I click/tap the ♥︎ icon, is there a list of these anywhere?
I know if I Add to My Music I can get to these by making a smart playlist where Loved is true. But about for ...
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Can I configure VLC to automatically organize my music library like iTunes does?
iTunes has the "keep iTunes music files organized" option, which automatically uses the metadata to sort the music files into folders organized by artist and album.
Is there any way to do this in VLC?...
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What's a cross-platform local music player with playlist sync capability?
I own a Windows Desktop and a Macbook Pro laptop. I keep my all my files (including music files) synchronized between these two machines using unison.
I'm looking for a music player on which I could ...
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How to create really random smart playlist in iTunes?
How can I create a smart playlist which would contain really random songs? Is there any hint how to do it?
I've tried to set up in the "Match the following rule" chars like *****, / or ., ...
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How to share a music folder between OSX and Windows?
It's a question for OSX & Windows 7 users who jump between one system to another.
I'm on Windows now, and I've got this music folder in my main hard drive. I'm planning to buy a Mackbook Pro soon ...
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Automatically find license of music
Is there some kind of database or online API that would enable me to automatically find the license for a certain music album?
I would like to legally share music with some friends, but my collection ...
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Lightweight iTunes Home Sharing client
I have both a MacBook Air & an iMac on the same network. I'm using my iMac as the host with my iTunes library on it & it's being shared with Home Sharing. I'm wondering if there are any ...
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