Questions tagged [quodlibet]

Quod Libet is an audio player / manager for Linux, Windows and OS X. This tag is for questions that relate to its usage (on Ubuntu in particular).

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Ubuntu 22.04 does not invoke Quodlibet

Ubuntu 21.10 could invoke Quodlibet. Ubuntu 22.04 cannot. If anybody knows how to invoke (ie start) Quodlibet on Ubuntu 22.04, please provide instructions. Thanks!
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Is there a music library player / manager that allows searching for strings in the whole path of music files, not just filenames or ID3 tags?

I organized my music, a long time ago, in folders. Searching for a folder's name, for instance "Girlfriend's albums" in Mediamonkey in Windows would show all mp3 files within that folder, and, ...
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18.04 Dock Context Menus?

In the previous versions of Ubuntu, items on the dock had context menus that were per-application rather than dock related. For instance, the quod libet context menu offered play, pause, stop etc. ...
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How to hide "quodlibet wants to inhibit shortcuts" message

Ever since upgrading to 17.10, whenever I click on the time elapsed bar in quodlibet (to manually change the current track playback time), I get a warning message that says "Quod Libet wants to ...
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Quod Libet player tray not working

Tray icon (after installing plugin to have it) doesnt work at all. Right/left click don't have any result at all. I don't really need the controllers, just opening the player will be enough. Using ...
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Can I add Quod Libet controls to the sound menu?

I recently installed the latest version of Quod Libet. However, unlike other music players (for example, Rhythmbox) it doesn't have play/pause/prev/next controls under the sound menu. How can I add ...
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Store Ratings in Quod Libet

I use Quod Libet as music library player. If I rate a song, the rating is successfully stored, but it seems at first only locally. Only if I edit some tags and save them, I get the rating stored in ...
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Media player that can be told what tracks I want to skip

Some tracks in my music library only consist of introductory talk and things like that I usually want to skip. Is there a media player that can be taught to not play certain tracks, either using ID3 ...
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Best way to add replay gain to m4a files?

I use (and love) QuodLibet as a my music player and it has a plugin that calculates replay gain values (album and track) and stores them in the files. However, it doesn't work for my m4a files...just ...
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Quodlibet couldn't connect to a device backend

I'm new to Quod Libet but I want to like it. Every other music app has disappointed me in some way and so far QL disappoints me least. It's not perfect but I'm trying very hard to make it work. ...
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How to set Quodlibet as default music player?

I am interested in having Quodlibet show up in the "Default Applications" menu in System Settings > Details, how can I do this?
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Why is some software not appearing in the "available software" options?

I have installed and used some applications such as Quod Libet and others on Ubuntu 12.04. When I go under settings to tell Ubuntu which software to use when opening specific files, Quod Libet and ...
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Mediamonkey ratings imported into Rhythmbox/Banshee/Quod Libet

I recently made a complete shift from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04. Everything went smoothly until I scanned my music files in some of the Ubuntu players... All of my ratings added in Windows, using ...
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caffeine works but not for quodlibet

I have caffeine installed, and it works just fine in gnome-classic (no effects) for preventing sleeping for most processes. For example "vlc", "mplayer", and "totem" all work. I cannot get it to ...
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How can one control Quodlibet through media keys?

The last time I used Quodlibet I found out that one had to enable 2 plugins for the media keys to work with it. One had something to do with DBus and the other one with an MPRIS thing. I enabled ...
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