+ asunder is a great ripper for CDs and supports a lot of output formats.
+ for lossless music compression, the flac and shorten (shn) formats are
-very nice. there are some canonical tools for each platform for these.
+ very nice. there are some canonical tools for each platform for these.
+ for converting from ogg and such to mp3 and m4a and such, use the
-gnome tool called 'soundconverter'.
+ gnome tool called 'soundconverter'.
+ musicbrainz provides a freedb style gateway for looking up albums, artists and songs...
https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:FreeDB_Gateway
use this instead of the old freedb URL:
http://freedb.musicbrainz.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi
++ gnudb: works in apps that need exact old freedb format, had more success
+ in asunder with gnudb
+ => gnudb.gnudb.org 8880
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music library manager and player
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+ lollypop is our current choice for managing a large music library and
-playing back songs in it.
+ playing back songs in it.
+ banshee used to be our app of choice for managing our music library, but it
-seems to no longer be updated.
+ seems to no longer be updated.
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+ for dvd processing, vobcopy is a must.
+ for dvd playing and ripping in general, decss is needed.
-it's available in the restricted packages on ubuntu.
-lots of articles describe how to set that up.
+ it's available in the restricted packages on ubuntu.
+ lots of articles describe how to set that up.
+ vlc is a good player for dvds.
audacity is the go-to tool for ripping music from vinyl records
and many other audio toaster processes:
-http://www.audacityteam.org/
+ http://www.audacityteam.org/
this article helps a lot to get the music off of vinyl records using a usb turntable:
-https://www.linux.com/news/using-usb-turntable-linux
+ https://www.linux.com/news/using-usb-turntable-linux
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avidemux:
-if you need to manipulate a video, for example to rotate it or transcode it to a different
-format, then avidemux works great.
+ if you need to manipulate a video, for example to rotate it or transcode it to a different
+ format, then avidemux works great.
openshot:
-if you need to jam a bunch of videos together, crossfade them, and that kind of stuff,
-then try openshot. it also supports simple saving with different quality levels, which
-lets you drop a bunch of size at the expense of the picture. sometimes needed.
+ if you need to jam a bunch of videos together, crossfade them, and that kind of stuff,
+ then try openshot. it also supports simple saving with different quality levels, which
+ lets you drop a bunch of size at the expense of the picture. sometimes needed.
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music collection management
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dupeguru:
-found this to be pretty helpful in finding my duplicate songs. it is able to analyze
-when the files are the same, even if their names don't match.
-check: did it even compare by metadata? not remembering currently.
+ found this to be pretty helpful in finding my duplicate songs. it is able to analyze
+ when the files are the same, even if their names don't match.
+ check: did it even compare by metadata? not remembering currently.
fdupes:
-another useful tool for finding duplicate tracks in a music collection, but relies on exact
-matches in the names(?). was not so powerful as dupeguru, but still useful.
+ another useful tool for finding duplicate tracks in a music collection, but relies on exact
+ matches in the names(?). was not so powerful as dupeguru, but still useful.
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shotwell:
-currently the top picture manipulation and manager tool i use at home.
-the imaginations folder is based on the date management in shotwell.
+ currently the top picture manipulation and manager tool i use at home.
+ the imaginations folder is based on the date management in shotwell.