Questions tagged [music]
Questions about managing, listening to, or creating music.
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Convert Amiga Oktalyzer format to MIDI
I have some very old audio files from an old DOS game, which are in oktalyzer (.okt) format. I don't know much about the octalyzer format so I'm not sure what these are based on, though, when played ...
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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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No surround sound in windows 8
I have been looking everywhere for a while now, trying to set up my laptop to transmit complete surround sound. However, it never works. Here is what I am trying to do:
I want to play music from my ...
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How to transfer random selection of directories from external hd to laptop and specify limit of total data
My laptop HD is a 120GB SSD. I also have a TB external HD which I used to store my music, photos and videos. I like having some music on my laptop in case I want to listen to something and I don't ...
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Music Player that loads automatically music from folder [closed]
I have a folder with music that synchronizes songs that I via a cloud service. I was using itunes but it turned boring and monotonous because I needed to scan for new music every time new music was ...
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Music Folder automated duplication to an external HDD
I currently have 1TB approx. of music into a separate internal HDD. I need those files to be automatically copied into an external HDD and also update the files when i make some changes into the ...
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how to switch played music when someone enters
My wife has a small shop, and she plays free licensed music. She can't legally play her own music when people outside of the family circle are present in the shop.
How can I automatically switch ...
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Stripping metadata from MP3 files
Is there a way I can bulk strip mp3 meta data from files? Preferably from the command line on OS X or Linux?
I recently tried to use TuneUp (an app that is supposed to located mis-named tracks and ...
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Where is the My Music folder on Windows XP?
I've read that I should store songs in the "My Music" folder. Where is that folder located?
All my music software was removed when tech support wiped the hard disk clean. When I play a song I saved ...
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How can I add all the music from my pc to the windows 8 music app?
The problem is it only adds certain albums I already added all my music folders to the music libraries sorry for my english can someone help me?
ps:there is no update available in the store.
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Universal shortcuts for music players
Does anyone know if I could create universal short-cuts to perform certain actions? I used to have a keyboard with keys for play, pause, skip... that worked in any music player, but my new keyboard ...
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I seem to have multiple copies all over my desktop & external hard drive? [closed]
I have multiple copies of all my music and photos duplicated in all related program files, plus in my documents, which is seen in several locations on the internal hard drive & my external HD.
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Music visualisations [closed]
I'm using DLNA network in my home to show PC contents on TV that support DLNA. (Don't get confused, It's not like VGA or HDMI cable. TV gets files from PC and plays them, doesn't show screen of PC)
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Is there a single catch-all-features tracked music format?
I have an archive of old(ish) tracked music in various formats - .mod, .s3m, .it and Commodore 64 .sid files.
Is there a single, well-supported, tracked music format with a super-set of the features ...
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How do you change the artist catalogue image in Windows Media Player?
I would like to customize my artist catalog album cover. What I mean is when you select Music/Artist, all artists of which you 2+ albums have their music appear in what is essentially a subfolder ...
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Playing music through skype with a USB headset
I want to be able to play music through skype and listen to it at the same time, aswell as talk and hear others but i dont want any echo as i tried a process bu it ended up with everyone hearing an ...
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Playlists in foobar2000
I am trying my best to get used to foobar2000, but I am still missing one thing. When I play one album by double clicking the first song it automatically plays all the songs of that album. But I don't ...
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Adding more than one folder at once to the Music Library in Windows Media Player
I was adding folders to Windows Media Player Music Library (via Manage Music Library) and since I have too many music folders, I wondered if there is a way to add them all at once to the Library. It ...
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Why does LilyPond describe sharps as "is" and flats as "es" by default?
In LilyPond the syntax to add a sharp to a note is is so that fis is f sharp, and the syntax to add a flat to a note is es so that bes is b flat.
I'm having trouble remembering this; is there a ...
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How do I automate editing of metadata for a large number of music files?
I am disappointed with iTunes' support for organizing classical music. When listening on an iPod/iPhone/iHome device, it displays the artist, album and song title. I don't see an option to view ...
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Tool to help compare mp3 bitrate quality? [closed]
So I've got 2 mp3 files
320 kbps
192 kbps
However it's hard for me to notice any differences at all (it seems there's none). Is there a tool to help compare bitrate quality? I wanna find out what ...
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Burn Track Info/Tags to Audio CD
I am using MusicBee in Window7 to burn custom recordings (MP3 files) to an audio cd. The MP3 files have all the track information ('tags' in musicbee) filled out. When I burn the files to a cd using ...
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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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Linux: super light-weight music player with http or commandline interface [closed]
I'm searching a super light-weight music player which has a http and/or commandline interface. It should support very basic playlist support (removing files by id and adding files by path or something ...
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Make Adobe Audition playback follow mouse position
I remember on Adobe Audition 3 there was a feature in the top bar that would let you "drag" over the track and play it at various speeds according to how far off your mouse was from the horizontal ...
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Network music player with smart cache
Usually I listen to music from a network stream with Winamp and VLC. Both these have a problem, they cache specified length of music, play it, then cache again. If your network connection was not fast ...
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Can I view a list of all of my downloads in Zune/Xbox Music?
I'd like to be able to keep track of what I download, so that if I ever switch to a different service, I can re-aquire the music from that service. Is there a way to see a complete list of all my Xbox ...
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Creating an audio CD that also opens a video presentation on a PC
I've seen this before with commercial CDs: they sound like regular a audio CD when inserted into a music player or stereo, but when inserted into a PC they instead open up a Flash presentation (.exe) ...
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How to separate files based on type?
My music folder is a mess with some files being protected by DRM and others not. Is there a way to automatically separate all files within the subfolders of my music folder based on file extension? I ...
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Creating my own music server
The 256 GB SSD in my laptop is too small to contain my entire music library. What I want is to build my own music server, which will stay at home, online, from which I'll be able to stream music on ...
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Is there a command line client for 8tracks.com playback? [closed]
I hope I'm not spamming with this kind of question here, but: is there a way to play 8tracks.com playlists from Linux command line using, for example, mplayer or mpg123?
There is the 8tracks.com API, ...
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Xbox Music only "matches" ~70% of the songs on most of my albums. How can I make it recognize the other songs?
When Xbox Music matches a song on my PC, it adds it to my "Xbox Music cloud". I can stream music from this cloud to all of my other devices.
The problem is, it fails to match at least 2-3 on most of ...
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Split long music file with help of playlist file
Is there a program that can split an mp3 (and/or other music file types) into single songs, using an itunes playlist file (and/or other music playlist files) to determine beginning and ending of a ...
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iTunes keeps pausing during video playback
I like to work and watch movies in iTunes at the same time. Recently, however, iTunes has just started to pause randomly during playback. It is not a freezing issue - it is like somebody hit the pause ...
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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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Two different subwoofers aren't working on my machine or my phone
I have speakers that come with my computer. Two small desktop speakers and a subwoofer with a base volume control on the back. It's worked for years. I was listening to Spotify on my speakers as loud ...
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Can Xbox Music be configured to recognize "Band Name" and "The Band Name" as the same band?
In Xbox Music, "Band Name" and "The Band Name" are grouped as two different bands. This can be frustrating, especially if the band's name starts with a letter nowhere near "T".
As a corollary, can ...
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Load M3U in Windows Media Player
I've got an m3u file which only has one line (C:\Users\James\Documents\Music). When I load this in Windows Media Player, I get an error saying "the selected file has an extension (.) that is not ...
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Can different id3v2 tags in the same song be of a different version (ex. version 2.3 and 2.4)?
I'm confused on the difference between id3v2 version 2.3 and version 2.4 and would really appreciate it if anyone can clear this all up for me.
For example can the same file have TIT2 tag of Black ...
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Can I browse by Artist, then by Album, then by Song in the Xbox Music app for Windows 8?
Most music players allow you to browse like this:
Select an artist from the list of artists
Select an album from a list of the artist's albums
Play the album or view its songs
In the Xbox Music app, ...
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From a quality perspective, what is better: turning volume up in the software, in the OS, or on the speakers?
If music isn't loud enough, how do I get the best quality (even if the difference is in fact so small it's negligible)?
By making the music louder in my music player, game or other sound-producing ...
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How can I force Xbox Music to find music in all subfolders of my Music library?
My music library is organized (roughly) like this:
Music
mp3 (original)
Artist/Album/Song
mp3 (from Tom)
Artist/Album/Song
mp3 (from Dick)
Artist/Album/Song
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Compress MP3 downloaded from the web?
I recently downloaded a bunch of raw audio streams from the web as MP3s and I realize now that they're huge! 60 MB a song… I would like to compress these, but the other question similar to mine links ...
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Use cmus or other terminal music player with Google Play (Music)
Can you play/stream music through the linux terminal using a command line application from your Google Music/Play Account? If so how, and with what application?
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Is there an android music player that can play from dropbox? [closed]
I tend to keep my current favorite music in Dropbox so that I can listen to it at home and work. My android phone has can also play music from Dropbox but to do so, you have to select each song ...
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Vislization Software for Live Audio?
Currently I have been using WinAmp, with MilkDrop visulization plugins to disply visulizations that go with the music. This works fine for normal music files, but now I am in a situation where I ...
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System volume vs Media player volume?
Consider i want to listen to music in medium volume.
Is there any difference between the following two scenarios?
keeping System Master Volume to medium and Full Volume in my media player
and full ...
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Software available for singing "lessons" via computer microphone? [closed]
Looking for a software to help my friend learn to sing. Can't seem to find anything on googles.
Does there exist software (preferably downloadable and from this century!) that records one's voice and ...
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Is it possible to convert a bitmap image to music using existing software?
I'd like to convert the following black and white image: to some kind of playable audio file, where each black pixel represents a musical note. Is it possible to do this using existing software?
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Can I export plain text data, from Sony Acid?
I have a bunch of Sony Acid projects that I want to export as plain text files. I don't mind if they are CSV, XML, or just flat txt files, but I just need a file out that I can pass with my own ...
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