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Questions tagged [music-management]

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How to organize music?

You might also have the problem that the music on your computer is a mess. Programs like WMP or iTunes are not capable to identify the music and sort it into categories. Is there a solution (a program, a mod or a add-on) which scans my computer for…
Shail
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Filtering in foobar2000 (show .flac if available else other format)?

I would like to know if it is possible to filter albums with conditions in foobar2000. Here's an example. For this artist I have an album twice, one is in flac and the other one is in mp3, I like to have mp3 as they take less space when on the go on…
Paperbag Writer
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Is there a folder-only based music player for Linux?

I have my music sorted using directories so I don't want a library, tags and what not. What I want: easily (recursively) add directories to playlist from my music root, not from library songs in playlist grouped by directories they reside…
yac
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Using iTunes to access all your music on a NAS but keeping the library.xml local... Is it possible/how? (Mac OSX))

I've pushed across my whole music collection to my Buffalo Linkstation NAS recently. This is the entire iTunes folder including artwork, music, library.xml, the whole kaboodle... (I have iTunes in consolidation mode to keep everything in one…
Stephen
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Stop foobar2000 from grouping together MP3 and FLAC files on the album list

I have lots of albums in two formats, MP3 and FLAC. On the album list I need foobar to stop collating tracks together if they're different formats. For example on the album list if foobar detected that there was an album which was in both FLAC and…
Ben Shelock
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How to manually set a cover in Musicbrainz Picard?

Is it possible to manually set a cover for a given MP3 file instead of letting the program automatically fetching it from the web? I have noticed that I can alter every other field to my liking before saving the tags to file, but I can't manage to…
Sekhemty
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Move MP3s from Ubuntu to iPhone's iTunes

I've installed Ubuntu on someone's laptop who is a heavy itunes user (having itunes on a bunch of different Apple devices). She has a large music collection in the form of folders that contain mp3 files. She is accustom to using iTunes (on windows…
LonnieBest
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Is it possible to store playlists in music file metadata?

I have been trying to think of a way to store my playlists completely independently from any one music player, and I think that one way to do this would be to use each song's tags to store the list of playlists in which that song belongs. For…
Ryan C. Thompson
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How can I configure Windows Media Player to manage my music library?

I'm currently using Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7 Ultimate. I was using iTunes, but since I got my Android phone, I got rid of my iPod and uninstalled iTunes. I'm trying to do things like keep music organized in the form My Music/Artist/CD/##…
Thomas Owens
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Need a good mp3/internet radio organization system

So I feel that winamp alone doesn't work well for me. I have this one playlist that all kinds of stuff gets crammed into. I need a system (this can easily be 1 program or several): Need to be able to... play mp3's from my library (just a directory…
Zombies
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How to move tracks from one foobar2000 playlist to another?

I like to maintain several playlists in foobar2000, moving entire albums from one playlist to another. I typically do this by selecting an album and using Utilities -> Send to playlist... to select the new playlist. I then need to go back to the old…
August Janse
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foobar2000 library: "*.flac; *.ape" vs "*.cue"

In a huge and diverse music library there are albums of the following two types: Consisting of media files and a CUE file (most of the albums are of this type) Consisting of media files only For various reasons, I prefer to work with the CUE files…
Alexander Shcheblikin
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How can I batch convert flac files to wav?

I'm using Windows XP, and I have several (about 160) flac files which I need to convert to wav. Since it is not practical to convert so many one by one, I need a utility that can convert them, but also preserve the metadata. It is crucial that the…
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Converting FLAC to ALAC, preserving tags - in a script

I'm currently building a script to maintain parallel music libraries, because I have devices that can't play FLAC, but prefer to store my music in that format. However, I'm having some trouble with the part that converts FLAC to ALAC. It currently…
Eric Astor
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Looking for music streaming software that allows any user to queue up songs

I work in an office and we have a server with a lot of music on it. I am looking for software that would allow anyone in the office to queue up songs to a playlist, sort of like an office radio station where people choose the songs. Are there any…
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