Questions tagged [mp3]

The mp3 format is a digital audio encoding format which is commonly used in the consumer market for storage and playback of digital music.

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How to set the ID3 Year on an mp3?

I'm creating my own MP3s with an online service, and I'm setting the "Year" attribute in the ID3v tag, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with both Nautilis and Rhythmbox. In Nautilis, when I ...
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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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How to add ID3 "cover art" by command line?

I need to add ID3 cover art to some MP3 files. I need a command line tool (no GUI) but it seems that neither id3 nor id3v2 tools can do it. Any hint?
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How to move all directories containing e.g. mp3 into another directory?

I have plenty of directories containing MP3 files on my computer (Ubuntu 22.04), e.g. in my /home , /data , on some partitions, etc. I would like to regroup/consolidate them by moving all these ...
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How to extract the audio from an mp4 video to a mp3 file? [duplicate]

I'd like to extract the audio from an mp4 video. Is there a software for Ubuntu, which does the job?
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Is it possible to download all mp3s from a domain or URL?

I'd like to download all mp3s from the blog pinchy&friends. I tried the script for mp3 in "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?mp3=*.mp3"; do wget "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?...
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How can I remove DRM from an audible audiobook (aax)?

I hope I do not ask anything that is illegal. I have purchased an audiobook and audible offers to download the corresponding file, which is an aax file. As far as I understood one can somehow extract ...
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Why do MP3 thumbnails take so long to regenerate?

I'm on 22.04 with Cinnamon but I have noticed this for a long time indeed with 20.04 and 18.04. When I open Files (Nautilus) and navigate to a directory that contains MP3 files, the thumbnails take ...
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Play a random mp3 file

I need a command that plays a random mp3 from a directory. So far I have tried ls *.mp3 | shuf -n 1 | omxplayer Every different player just acts like it has not received a filename and spits out the ...
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How to convert .m4a audio files to .mp3 use command line?

How to convert .m4a audio files to .mp3 command line? (with no deterioration in quality, if possible). Ubuntu 16.04LTS media info: General Complete name : show.m4a Format ...
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Converting WEBM to MP3

I'm aware there are a couple of other questions here related to this, but the answers provided don't seem to work. I'm trying to convert a webm to mp3 with avconv. Here's how I tried to do it: $ ls ...
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Why purchased music is not synched on U1 on Windows7?

I can't determine why my already purchased music isn't available on Windows 7. Could someone give me a hint? Thanks in advance.
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How can I create bookmarks in an mp3 file?

Is there a software application that allows me to bookmark a timestamp with some tag in the play of an mp3 file? For example, I want to bookmark places in an audio book, corresponding to the bookmarks/...
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How to normalize sound in mp3 files

I am looking for a way to normalize the sound in MANY MP3 files I have. Some have low sound, while others are louder so I have to turn the volume up or down depending on the song. What ways are there ...
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How to batch change a file extention

I have a bunch of mp3 files that I would like to change the extension of into m4bs, in the terminal for audiobooks. I want to convert/change the name of each indivicual mp3. I am pretty sure I can ...
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How to convert a m4a sound file to mp3?

I tried to convert an .m4a file to an .mp3 file using ffmpeg with the following command: $ ffmpeg -i music.m4a music.mp3 Unfortunately, I got a zero byte-sized file returned as output. The output of ...
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Spotify not playing local files

Spotify when ran using wine will not play local files (mp3's, wma's). When i open the Containing folder the files are present but when selected from the wine explorer it gives the error message: "...
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How to batch edit mp3 tag properties ubuntu?

I already installed Easytag on my Ubuntu but It's not good for editing multiple files. I want to change mp3 property information on multiple files. Does anyone know how to batch edit multiple mp3 ...
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extract a segment from some mp3 file

I need a simple (preferably command line based) tool to extract a segment from some existing mp3 file. audacity is much too complex for me. Ideally, I would like a command like extract-mp3-segment -...
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How can I delete non-mp3 files recursively using fish shell?

The tree list is like this: /Music |--- folder1 |--- folder2 |--- folder3 | |---- folder3.1 | |---- folder3.2 | \---- folder3.3 |--- folder4 I had tried the command rm | ls -R | grep -v &...
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How can I split a mp3 file?

I have a big mp3 file which comes from ripping a full CD. I would like to split it into one file per song. It will be great to find a software that can split the file automatically, detecting the ...
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mp3splt bsed on time and silence

How can I split an mp3 into 3 min chunks with the closest silence place/mark. mp3splt -t 3.0 -a -p th=-50,min=1,rm audobook.mp3 I tried the above but still mp3splt split the mp3 file into 3-min ...
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How to read mp3 tags in shell?

Is there a way to read the mp3 tags of a file from the shell? Something like: mp3tags MyFile.mp3 author should output the author-tag of an mp3-file.
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Rip CD to mp3 using Rhythmbox

I would like to rip CDs to MP3. I looked at some pages on the internet on how to do that and they recommended tools like "sound juicer", but since I currently use Rhythmbox as my main music ...
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Adding ReplayGain tags

I have been always using FooBar2000 to add ReplayGain tags to my music library (consisting of .mp3 or .ogg files). On my new computer I would like to avoid installing Wine for just this task. Are ...
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How can I generate an M3U playlist (http URL format) from the terminal?

I'd like to generate a M3U playlist for a directory containing mp3 files on my server from the terminal. Since I'd like to ensure that every player will be able to stream those files I'd like to ...
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How to make a playlist from a directory of mp3 files?

How do you make a universal playlist from a directory of mp3 files? This question came up as my wife is a musician (violinist) and she has a gig, and the DJ at the event will be playing her ...
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How to use Ffmpeg to convert wma to mp3 recursively, importing from txt file?

I tried different options from forums, but most of them are out of date (ffmpeg tells me about it, like with -sameq option). Im trying to understand the docs, but I can't. I want to know how to ...
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Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

I need to tag my MP3 library, and have tried kid3 (which was manual tagging), when I used Kubuntu 9.10 (I now use Ubuntu Meerkat) Here are the features I am hoping for: A good and clean UI. Tagging ...
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Convert mp3 to ogg?

I want to convert my entire music library to ogg format from mp3. while keeping the folder/file format I have under music and keep the tags that are on them.
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Convert mp3 to Ogg Vorbis with SoundConverter

Is there a way to set SoundConverter to 320kbps? I want to convert mp3 320kbps files to Ogg Vorbis 320 kbps. I see it is possible in SoundConverter to have it in 256 and 500 kbps but not in 320kbps.
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How to convert wav to ogg and mp3 using VBR

How to convert wav to ogg and to mp3 with VBR and excellent end quality? If possible, using soundconverter or ffmpeg. Incidentally, I tried to see whether soundconverter uses VBR and there is ...
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How can I move files in mp3 subdirectories to the parent directory and eliminate mp3/flac subdirectories?

My music collection contains 'Artist Name' folders, many of which contain subfolders with an 'Album Name'. If there are no 'Album Name' folders in the 'Artist Name' folder, then that folder contains ....
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Which MP3 replay gain package?

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, and I want to normalise a lot of MP3 files recursively (i.e. including all subfolders from a main folder); the new replay level should be applicable across the entire collection, ...
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RipperX 2.80 on 20.04 not creating output files

installed RipperX 2.80 on Ubuntu 20.04 for ripping CDs to MP3. No problems with installation. Runs OK, but I must be missing a configuration switch somewhere. It happily picks up the media detail from ...
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Can I make mp3's in one map one icon and in another map another icon

What I want to do is give the mp3's the icon of the picture of the cd they are on. Example the mp3's in music/Meat Loaf/Bat out of Hell have the albumcover as icon and music/Queen/Greatest Hits have ...
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How to split an mp3 file by detecting silent parts?

I have a big mp3 file including more songs. Is there any way to split the file by detecting silent parts? I would prefer a command line tool (e.g. ffmpeg). Tried: youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format ...
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Sandisk Clip support plus player not recognized

I bought an brand new MP3 player en XUbuntu 18.04 and Xubuntu 20.04 does not mount. When I plugged in the player. Only when I plugged in before to start the computer/laptop it appears on the desktop. ...
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My Rhythmbox not playing mp3

After installing Ubuntu Mate, Rhythmbox not importing mp3 files from music folder. and when I tried to play mp3 files, It wont play.
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K3b CD ripping - can't change LAME settings

I'm trying to rip a CD to mp3 with VBR setting V0. In an earlier version of K3b, you could configure the LAME command string. But in version 19.12.3, that has been replaced with a screen in the LAME ...
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How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video

There are several Q&A threads that explain how to download youtube videos using the terminal. However, I would also like to learn how to extract the video's soundtracks as MP3 files--also using ...
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How to download playlist from Youtube?

I need to download a Youtube playlist as mp3 audio. What is the most convenient way to do this on Ubuntu? I tried: youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --...
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want to play audio files wav or mp3 with sudo

The problem persists only when using sudo. for example if I'm using nvlc <some.mp3> its working fine. If I use sudo nvlc <some.mp3> I can see the gui as processing but can't hear the sound ...
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How to remove last 4 seconds of MP3 file?

I have a set of MP3 files that I would like to remove the last 4 seconds. I know that if I know the time duration of each file I can do: ffmpeg -t ${1} -i inputfilename -acodec copy -vcodec copy ...
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Save the output of darkice or icecast2 stream to file (mp3)?

I successfully set up a icecast2 server with darkice (ubuntu server 20.04.1 LTS (focal)) on a raspberrypi) to stream audio inside of my network. I now would like to be able to go back and listen to ...
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No menu or setup for Sound Juicer

I have installed Sound juicer on my 19.10 only laptop and via the Ubuntu Software Installer and via Synaptic. In both cases there is no setup menu at all. It is not in the topbar as you can see from ...
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TTS in multiple languages, to MP3

I'm looking for a software that can read different languages in the same text. I would prefer a software for ubuntu, but I can accept to use wine. The document in question has a series of sentences ...
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Batch Rename DIrectory Using Pattern Matches

I would like to change this directory structure to the one following it. Although another directory batch rename question exists, this one is quite different. l '001. Aretha Franklin - Respect.mp3'* '...
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Parametric command line player

I am looking for command line mp3 or ogg audio player with ability to play section of file, like: .... playfrom=145s playto=185s .... The aim is to listen just the interesting part of audiorecording. ...
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Looking for a music player that saves the added/removed songs from the playlist immediately and directly to the playlist file(m3u8)

I've enjoyed various music players through Ubuntu. From Clementine, Rhythmbox, cantata, Elisa, Rollypop, DeaDBeef... there are many useful, gorgeous, powerful and even light-weighted music players. ...

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