Questions tagged [mp3-player]

An MP3 player is a device that plays music. Some more advanced MP3 players can play videos and pictures, show ebooks and listen to the radio. Some expensive MP3 player, such as Apple's iPod touch and Microsoft's Zune HD, can browse the Internet, run applications, and take pictures. MP3 players range in price from five dollars to three hundred dollars.

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Command line audio players

What are popular audio players for the command line? How to play a single sound file? Are there command line players that also index the music library like Banshee, Exaile, etc.?
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How can I change the default music player?

Using Ubuntu 11.10. I have MP3 files. When I double-click an MP3 file, I would like VLC to open (not Banshee). How can I do this?
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MP3 player with good podcast support?

By good podcast support I mean: resuming the audio files where I switched off the player or skipped the file. Synching with my podcatcher (currently I'm using Miro but I could change): deleting ...
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What application do the same what shazam or soundhound does on android?

What application do the same what shazam or soundhound does on android? Shazam for windows and MacOs, I don't like wine, plus it is commercial. You can verify about 2-5 songs and must pay to continue....
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Is there a player that merge the end of a music with the beginning of the next?

In Winamp 3 for Windows, there's a feature that the last 3 seconds of the music is merged with the first 3 seconds of the next music, so there's no "empty space" between the musics. Is there a way to ...
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Music/podcast player with speed control? [duplicate]

I am looking for a MP3/Ogg player that has the ability to playback a file at a higher speed, preferably without affecting the pitch. What players allow that? The only one I know right now is ...
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Exaile doesn't add songs to the queue

I've just upgraded from 10.04 and I have Exaile as my main player. Anyway, when I double click a .mp3 file it opens okay. But in 10.04, if I clicked another, Exaile would push it in my playlist and ...
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Can I sync a Rhythmbox playlist with an mp3 player?

I can't sync a Rhythmbox playlist onto my mp3 player, how can I do this?
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How can I make Banshee re-encode FLAC to Ogg Vorbis when copying to my player?

I have most of my music in FLAC on my large storage device, and would like to automatically re-encode it in Ogg Vorbis when copying it to my portable audio player (Sansa Fuze v2). I have set my Fuze ...
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Sort files on the filesystem

My MP3 player plays files in the order they have been placed onto the filesystem. Now it seems to Nautilus copies files in some random order, so when listening to an audio book or something I get all ...
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Suggest mp3 player having minimum requirements

Please suggest an mp3 player which does the following things apart from play, pause, next & previous. I'm not looking for all the equalizer & stuff. Just playing & option to enqueue at one ...
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How to make Banshee copy files to my Creative Zen MP3 player as MP3 instead of FLAC

When I try to use Banshee to copy files from to my Creative Zen Stone MP3 player it keeps converting the files from MP3 to FLAC. It detects the player fine and copies files to it fine. Syncs to a ...
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How can I convert videos for my Sansa Fuze?

The Sansa Fuze mp3 player can only play videos in its own special format, how can I convert videos to this format using Ubuntu?
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How do I get a Dane-Elec mp3/mp4 player working?

My MP3/MP4 does not plug-in and play and therefore I can not transfer any file to the MP3/MP4 dane-elec music my touch or only dane-elec with 8 gb in memory and perhapses model zt1 with radio,..and ...
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MP3 player mpman TS300 not recognized [closed]

I just received a mpman ts300 mp3 player for Christmas. But when I try to connect it to ubuntu (10.10) through usb it doesn't seem to be recognized. I searched for a linuxdriver but came up with ...
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Sony Walkman NWZ-B173F 12.04 support

I bought this groovy little device for my daughters only to discover they didn't play nice with Ubuntu. My main desktop runs 12.04 64bit. My secondary desktop runs 13.04. Didn't get recognised on ...
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What are all the good music players available in ubuntu? [closed]

i am looking for a replacement of rhythmbox music player; please suggest some of the good music good players.
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How do delete songs from Sony Walkman MP3 player?

I can delete, rename and reorganize songs by clicking on the Ubuntu desktop icon for my Walkman. However, the changes are not evident on the player itself. Help?
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Unable to mount my MP3 player

Ever since I installed Xubuntu Natty, my mp3 player is not mounted any more. lsusb also does not list it. Normal USB sticks are normally mounted. How can I re-enable auto-mount for it or mount it ...
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Sony Walkman NW-WS413 and Rythmebox -> Playlists and songorder

I'm using Rhytmebox with above Sony Device. The device is showing up under "devices" in Rhythmbox after creating a file with the name .is_audio_player. After I have created a playlist in Rhythmbox I ...
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Unable to copy files to Samsung MPS - libmtp error: Could not send object property list

I have Ubuntu 16 and am unable to copy files from my computer to my YP-UTJ Samsung MP3 player. This is the error message There was an error copying the file into [drive name]: libmtp error: Could not ...
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Recommendation of device+software to listen to audible.com audiobook

I use Ubuntu 12.10 and I am searching for some way to easily, and legally listen to audible.com audiobooks in an external device. I have an 2008 second generation iPod shuffle (which I gained as a ...
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is there any ubuntu-program that you can use as mp3-player-firmware? [closed]

I would like to format my mp3-player (Philips GoGear 2120) with ext3 and to use a linux player on it. Does anybody know if this is possible? Thanks for your comments!
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MP3 Player: "This does not look like a partition table"

First of all, I'm not sure if this belongs on AskUbuntu. I'm sorry if it doesn't. When I ran sudo fdisk -l I get some messages that worry me. This is the output: > robin@robin-Latitude-D620:~$ ...
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ubuntu 12.10 mp3 mpeg support

Why does ubuntu 12.10 not support playing mp3 audio files and mpeg video right out of the ISO? These formats have been around for decades now and I find it strange that after I installed 12.10 I could ...
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Syncing cell phone with Banshee via Bluetooth

Is it possible that if I connect my cell phone via Bluetooth with my laptop it appears like a mp3-player in Banshee so I can sync podcasts easily?
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14.04 USB MP3 player not recognized as storage medium anymore

After updating from 13.10 to 14.04 my MP3 player is not mounted anymore. Under 13.10 it behaved like a normal USB stick and I could copy files to it. Since the upgrade the device does not show up as ...
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How do I sync music to my Sony Walkman (Z Series) using Rhythmbox?

I have recently purchased the new Walkman Z from Sony. I can transfer music by mounting it as a drive, but I would prefer to use Rhythmbox to do so. My other Android devices and MP3 players from the ...
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How to add album art to multiple tracks with Rythmbox?

I wanted to add a cover art for a mp3 album I have on my laptop. I do use Rythmbox, but I'm unable to add a cover art for multiple mp3 files of the same album and I have to do it one by one. What ...
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How can I edit playlists on an MTP device?

One of the few things I still use Windows for is managing files and playlists on my MP3 player, which uses MTP. MTP was quite buggy on Ubuntu for a while (timeouts, disconnects, etc), but with 16.04 ...
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Rhythmbox: How to normalize song volumes?

When putting songs on a mp3 player with Rhythmbox it's not very convenient to have different volumes for songs. Is there a solution which automatically sets same volumes (I have seen this in other ...
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I am not able to view mp3 files on my sansa clip player that were previously loaded using windows [closed]

I have added the file .is_audio_player and still no luck. Any Suggestions? In Ubuntu 12.04, when I connect mp3 player, the home folder opens and I can see files that I have added to the player since ...
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Is there any mp3 player which has "Add to Playlist" Option?

I'm trying to find an mp3 player which has "Add to Playlist/Enqueue" option for Ubuntu/Xubuntu. I'm looking for something similar to Winamp or Foobar. Thank you. Note: Please don't suggest Foobnix, ...
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Replacement for Rhythmbox

I found Rhythmbox unusable due to incoherent shortcuts. I would like to replace it with something else for playing local mp3/flac files. I have spotify already, but the local files options are very ...
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Banshee Amazon MP3 Integration Broken [closed]

Amazon have introduced their new Amazon Cloud Player, bang goes Banshee's Amazon MP3 download support. It really was an iTunes killer for me, but hey life sucks. Will Banshee Support The New Amazon ...
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Why doesn't my mp3/mp4 player work on Ubuntu? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get a Dane-Elec mp3/mp4 player working? My MP3/MP4 does not plug-in and play and therefore I can not transfer any file to the MP3/MP4 dane-elec music my touch or only ...
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i' having trouble with an mp3 player

I had to replace my old mp3 player with a new 1 because of a cracked screen. The last 1 would just show up on the left side menu when i plugged it into the usb, but with this 1 nothing shows up. How ...
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usb mp3 player not showing up using ubuntu 16.04

I have a ONN-W7 mp3 player which windows 7 sees however ubuntu doesn't http://en.onnchina.com/mp3_mp4/product172.html but my ubuntu 16.04 isn't showing it as a device. I've tried gparted, lsusb, gmtp ...
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How to add MP3 encoder in sound Converter ubuntu 15.10, 14.10 or 14.04

I have installed sound converter from Ubuntu 15.10 repository. But it is not working for MP4 to mp3. Previous posts are not helping me to sort out this problem !!!
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Ubuntu won't detect my RAW USB

It was working before I got a "read-only", "waste-basket not detected" error when trying to delete something. I think this may be because the USB became partially disconnected? Other computers asked ...
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Another "can't mount USB" question, tried prev. answers but still doesn't work

Please forgive yet another "I can't mount a USB drive", but the output doesn't match what previous threads seem to assume. the device: USB mp3-player of the simplest type. Just a USB stick with ...
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I accidentley deleted my mp3 files on my mp3 device

I accidently deleted my whole library on my mp3 player because i wanted to syncronise with rhythmbox. It deleted all my songs and put the few, that were in my folder on my device. How can i get the ...
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banshee has its own id3 tags?

An mp3 player called "SanDisk Clip" will freeze if any song names have non-ascii characters (e.g. accented letters, like é á ó , etc.) I have some mp3 files in banshee that I would like to add to the ...
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Sony Walkman MP3 player not mounting in Xubuntu 11.10

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 11.10 with xubuntu-desktop installed over it (I don't like Unity), and have found that when I plug in my Sony Walkman NWZ-B153 MP3 player, it does not ...
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mp3 player recommendation

I would like to have an mp3 player that only displays a menu in the bar on the top of the screen or / and notifications. I don't want any complex music management, playlists etc., but I want to be ...
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MP3 players playback speed [closed]

I am looking for an MP3 player where I can increase playback speed so I can listen to classes faster. I've called stores and searched online, but can't seem to find anything. What MP3 players have ...
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