Questions about managing, listening to, or creating music.
Questions tagged [music]
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How to refresh GNOME Music?
Whenever I delete a track from my system, GNOME Music keeps it in my library. How do I refresh GNOME Music so it removes them from my library?
This problem doesn't seem to occur for mp3 tracks that don't have tags.
Jeroen
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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 rationale behind this choice of syntax and can it be…
dumbledad
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how to extract beats from a piece of music
I am working on a guitar hero like game prototype. and now I am looking for a tool that is able to extract the key beats of a song in addition to the height of the tune. is there something like this?
clamp
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Move scattered music files into artist/album directory structure?
Is there a tool to do this? I don't fancy wading through 25GB manually!
I have found this, but it doesn't seem to work, or explain how to do what I need. If indeed it does provide the facility to scan a directory and move all the files about based…
bcmcfc
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Making space in Lilypond music
I want to make some extra space between the main body of the music and the coda. I use \break to start the coda on a new line, but a wider gap would look better and help the eye move down to find it.
Podsgrove
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How to organize media library?
I recently had a harddrive crash, and upon recovering it all directories were lost. I now have a bunch of random DIR's (DIR001 to DIRn) with a ton of MP3's, not necessarily one album per folder. I also have an old copy of the same music (but less of…
HannesFostie
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Is there any light sequencing software?
I would like to sequence a number of stage lights that will change synchronously to a song.
Is there any tool that would help me to do that? Even if it only sequences virtual lights?
Jader Dias
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Can I use semicolons to delimit statements in LilyPond?
In LilyPond, I only have seen statements delimited by line breaks. Can you use semicolons instead?\header{title = "A scale in LilyPond"};\relative {c d e f g a b c};\version "2.16.2";
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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 enough this type of caching makes your listening…
Maysam
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is there anyway to strip the words from a song
Possible Duplicate:
Karaoke Software?
if i have a mp3 or another song file. is there anyway to remove and strip out the words and just keep the music?
leora
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A way to estimate how loud computer can play music
I wonder whether there is some application / site that can help with estimation of computer speaker loudness (in dB) for different levels of sound volume.
For example I want to know how loud is laptop X with win 7, when it plays music at max volume,…
Darqer
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Split a big album audio file into separate songs audio files automatically
I have an audio file which contains many songs in it. I want to split it into many audio files with separate songs automatically (probably by AI). Is there something can do that?
ITFan
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How can I most easily replace 'Track X' with track information on a website?
I don't have the CD on hand; see the track information on Deutsche Grammaphon's website. It's obviously too unproductive to copy the track information from DG and paste it to each Track, even with free file renaming software like Advanced Rename.
user269574
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Can Filebot create subfolders based on artist or title names?
I've used MediaMonkey for music organizing for a long time, but I'm considering Filebot.
My music is organized like so:
Music/{ABC}/{A}/Adele/{Album Title [Release Year]}/01_{Song Title}
So I'm arranging by the first letter of the artist name…
Stack Johan
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Can I use headphone port as Aux input?
I recently moved house and I found a music system. Its called philips C170 mini hifi system: it has 3cd system and to this 2 speakers are connected through 2 wires. For the speakers to be connected there's 4 port for the wire to be plugged in; old…
