7 + k3b is good for ripping+converting cd audio to mp3 or other formats.
9 + asunder is a great ripper for CDs and supports a lot of output formats.
11 + for lossless music compression, the flac and shorten (shn) formats are
12 very nice. there are some canonical tools for each platform for these.
14 + for converting from ogg and such to mp3 and m4a and such, use the
15 gnome tool called 'soundconverter'.
17 + musicbrainz provides a freedb style gateway for looking up albums, artists and songs...
18 https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:FreeDB_Gateway
19 use this instead of the old freedb URL:
20 http://freedb.musicbrainz.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi
21 + gnudb: works in apps that need exact old freedb format, had more success
23 => gnudb.gnudb.org 8880
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26 music library manager and player
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29 + lollypop is our current choice for managing a large music library and
30 playing back songs in it.
32 + banshee used to be our app of choice for managing our music library, but it
33 seems to no longer be updated.
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37 dvd burner and dvd player support
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40 + k3b is a pretty great and versatile cd and dvd burner.
42 + k3b is good for ripping+converting cd audio to mp3 or other formats.
44 + for dvd processing, vobcopy is a must.
46 + for dvd playing and ripping in general, decss is needed.
47 it's available in the restricted packages on ubuntu.
48 lots of articles describe how to set that up.
50 + vlc is a good player for dvds.
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53 ripping music using a turntable
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56 audacity is the go-to tool for ripping music from vinyl records
57 and many other audio toaster processes:
58 http://www.audacityteam.org/
60 this article helps a lot to get the music off of vinyl records using a usb turntable:
61 https://www.linux.com/news/using-usb-turntable-linux
69 this is an awesome tool that lets you manage multiple tracks of audio and video, apply
70 effects to both, edit and remove pieces, insert tracks, etc. it's great.
73 if you need to manipulate a video, for example to rotate it or transcode it to a different
74 format, then avidemux works great.
77 if you need to jam a bunch of videos together, crossfade them, and that kind of stuff,
78 then try openshot. it also supports simple saving with different quality levels, which
79 lets you drop a bunch of size at the expense of the picture. sometimes needed.
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82 music collection management
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86 found this to be pretty helpful in finding my duplicate songs. it is able to analyze
87 when the files are the same, even if their names don't match.
88 check: did it even compare by metadata? not remembering currently.
91 another useful tool for finding duplicate tracks in a music collection, but relies on exact
92 matches in the names(?). was not so powerful as dupeguru, but still useful.
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96 picture collection management
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100 currently the top picture manipulation and manager tool i use at home.
101 the imaginations folder is based on the date management in shotwell.