Questions tagged [music]
Questions about managing, listening to, or creating music.
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Transferring Music from iPod to iTunes?
Is there a way for me to transfer music from my iPod to my iTunes? Say, if I accidentally deleted some music on my computer but I have the files on my iPod?
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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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Automatically sort music files into folders by album/artist names
I have a large collection of music files (let's say MP3), with metadata (ID3 tags), but all are located in the same folder. I wish to automatically organize all of them according to this metadata.
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What's the easiest way to update album art?
I don't have the album art for most of my music, and I don't have time to go find and download images for all of my album. Any suggestions?
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Streaming music throughout the house on a budget?
I was wondering whether anyone knew of a way to stream music throughout a house on a budget?
I want to avoid spending any money on this (eg. I don't want to buy a d-link style device). It would be ...
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Are there any good wma to mp3 converters? [closed]
I'm looking for a batch converter to take wma's in a directory and convert them to mp3. Is there anything out there that will do this? This will be for windows.
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Can I write (200 MB - 150 min) music to a (700 MB - 80 min) CD?
I have mp3 songs of audio quality 320 kbps. The total size of the songs is around 200 MBs with a total playing time of around 150 minutes.
Can I write these songs to an audio CD, whose specs are ...
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How to keep iTunes libraries in sync?
I have a couple of PCs and a Mac that I have my music libraries on them. Occasionally, I add files, edit artworks and ID3 tags on one of them. I want to keep them synchronized on all of my computer. ...
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VLC player hotkeys will only work while it is selected
I got my media keys to work in the hotkeys under the settings, and they do work... when I have VLC selected. If I deselect it (not close the window, just click on another one) then the keys will not ...
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Play music in a Skype call
I'd like to be able to play music in a Skype call so everyone can hear it.
Here's everything I tried:
Setting the microphone device to Stereo Mix. People can hear music but obviously can't hear me ...
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Many computers, 1 set of headphones. What are the options?
Like many other super users I have many computers both at home and in the office. They are connected together with a KVM. What options exist to combine the audio from many systems so I only need a ...
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How can I stream the same music to multiple computers?
Is there a way to stream the same playlist on multiple computers at the same time? I want to be able to sync what's playing on multiple computers (for parties etc).
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uploading music automatically with Google Music on a Linux server [duplicate]
So I've seen questions like this one looking for help uploading music with Google Music on Linux, but none really seem to confront the notion of solely using the command line. I've downloaded the ...
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PC not differentiating Left/Right channel properly
I have an .mp3 (Bohemian Rhapsody to be exact). When I play it on my Mobile (Xiaomi Redmi 2), the lyrics "Little High", "Little Low" which are supposed to be on left and right channels respectively ...
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Certain CD-R's not working in car..sometimes
I have an old Honda with a stock CD player. Certain CD's that I've burned only work sometimes. They typically fail in the morning or when it is raining/wet. I'd rather not go through the bother and ...
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Set track number from file name in MP3 music management software
I have .mp3 files, whose names and titles are their track numbers.
For example: "Track01.mp3" (the internal title property reads "Track01")
How do I let my MP3 management software know that it's ...
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Auto Music Tagging Software [closed]
Is there any software out there that will completely and automatically clean and organize a music library? I have tried MediaMonkey, Songbird, Foobar, iTunes, TuneUp and various other programs I have ...
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Will a sound card help the quality of audio recordings?
Some people also seem to use external devices too for podcasting and the like. What are they for? Just some kind of equalizer?
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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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Music player for linux [closed]
I need to choose a music player to use under linux after having fallen out with Banshee*. What would you recommend based on these requirements:
Ability to import/export ratings
Automatically picks up ...
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How to separate voice and background music from a video file
Is it possible to separate voice and background music from a video file?
I only need the background music.
Type of video: MP4
Working on Windows XP 32 bit SP3
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Windows 7: Add column to ALL music folders
In Windows 7 Explorer, when I open a folder containing only music, it's smart enough to show me a custom set of columns (Name, #, Title, Contributing Artists, Album) that make sense for a music folder....
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What application do you use to play and manage music on your computer? [closed]
What software do you use to play and manage music on your computer? Include a link if you can, so others may discover great software!
Please, one application per answer. That will allow the votes to ...
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What is the current state of development for the FLAC codec? [closed]
I have a pretty large collection of FLAC files created from my CD collection. I love the FLAC format and the sound quality that you can get from it.
Lately, however, I've been trying to write a few ...
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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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Is it possible to check an MP3 for data corruption?
I was listening to some older mp3s today and I released that some of my songs have pops and cracks in them. I assume this means that the file has some bad blocks.
Is there software/script/etc that I ...
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Why can't I click Listen to Music in Windows 7 for Bluetooth headphones?
Here is a screenshot of where Listen to Music appears. I cannot click it, it simply does nothing if clicked. Alternately while in Playback Devices > Sound I cannot right click and press "connect".
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Music player on Linux without playlists, just a directory navigation and file playing
I am searching for a mp3 player for Linux that resembles 1by1 on features: light, free, with no playlists, just selection of files to play using a directory navigator. Any suggestion?
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Stop music playback when I lock the screen
Is it possible to run xmms2 stop when I lock the screen with Ctrl+Alt+L?
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How to stop Windows 10 muting audio playback when screen turns off
I have found that on my new XPS 13 9360 with the creators update, if I am playing back music from any source (Spotify for example), when the screen turns off after a couple of minutes, audio seems to ...
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Is there software to automatically change song speed without transposing it
Goal: automatically adjusting speed (bpm) of a given set of MP3 files in order to have a collection of music optimized to be heard when I am running. (I realized that I prefer to run with about 168 ...
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How to prevent iTunes from launching on media key press
Recently, I made the switch to Songbird, and it's all gone well except for one thing: global music hotkeys. I installed an addon (Apple Keyboard Media Key Support) that enabled me to use the iTunes ...
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Run a script when connected to wireless
I'm after a way of running a script (on Windows) when a network connection is established.
Background: I'm looking at the potential of having a low powered computer that sits in the boot of my car ...
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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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Windows: good, simple music streaming?
I've been using iTunes to stream music over the LAN, and quite frankly the quality is terrible. On the other hand, its ease of use - having a simple client on either end, and it just 'working' with ...
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Music tagging software more consistent than Tag&Rename?
A few years ago I spent an insane amount of time using the excellent Tag&Rename program. However, I find that for random, inexplicable reasons, some music tools simply disregard my tags, drop or ...
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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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Lean Winamp-y player for OSX
One of my big gripes about iTunes is that it is slow and eats memory. I really like the old Winamp model of lean, mean, speed machine. Is there such a program for Macs? (I only want an mp3 player ...
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Exclude an specific subfolder on Windows Media Player library
I have the following directory for my public music files:
That Public Music directory have at least contains 100 different Artist having each a respective sub-directory. Those music files that is yet ...
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Is there a Foobar2000 component that would display only the playing playlist in the Default UI?
I use 'Tabs' component to display the components that I want in the Default UI.
Under one of the Tabs I have 'Playlist view' and under another I have 'Playlist tabs'
I use the later to keep ...
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How do I copy all the songs off my iPod (nano 4g) to my computer for free
Okay, here's my issue.
My old computer recently died, and I want to copy all my music from my iPod to my computer. I've done this before using ephPod, however it didn't seem to work this time.
Does ...
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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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Embed an MP3 in a WAV file
Afaik, the WAV file format is just a container for multiple sound formats. Is it possible to have an MP3 embedded in a WAV file so that the file size is smaller that typical WAV files?
If so, how ...
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m4a file with Quicktime: Error - 2041: an invalid sample description was found in the movie
I have a number of m4a files that don't play properly. I previously thought that it was a problem with Media Monkey, but I managed to get Media Monkey to play some m4a files and the files I know don't ...
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How to listen to music while my speaker plays something else [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enable multiple audio outputs on Windows 7
I want to listen to music via my headphones while the speakers play something else. I've searched the Internet but couldn't come up ...
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What should I use to organize my music (iTunes, Windows Media Player...)?
I have a PC with Windows Vista, and an iPod.
I've been using iTunes, but it has several things I don't like.
Should I use iTunes, Windows Media Player or something else to organize my music?
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