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Use this if your question is concerned with meta-tags related to audio, video or pictures. Like author-tag in case of music files, frame-rate in case of videos, EXIF tags in case of pictures, etc.

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Why won't Sylpheed send or receive?

I have just installed Sylpheed but it neither receives nor sends emails. I selected IMAP and clicked Forward. Entered my email address ‘[email protected]’. Give the account a name and clicked ...
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Is there a good way to tag files and directories?

I have files and directories stored in multiple ways, some at my home directory, some in Dropbox and some in TrueCrypt volume files. I would like to be able to add tags to files and directories such ...
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Can I add or change search tags in Unity's Dash

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 and I use two languages English and Russian. So i need to switch all the time to English to find and launch applications, for example Clementine. Is it possible that I set ...
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Image viewer with "tags" feature?

is there an image viewer available for Ubuntu that allows to assign "tags" (like "sport", "car", "river", "drawing" etc.) to any image in a directory ...
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rhythmbox - skip song while shuffling

Is it possible to have rhythmbox always skip always skip certain songs while shuffling? Possibly with an mp3 comment tag like "do not shuffle". I've done some searching for plug-ins but ...
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How to find and return the names of all images containing specific metadata?

I want to find all .jpg files in my directory that contain a specific tag and copy them to a different directory. In particular, I am using GThumb which allows me to put tags to my photos - it stores ...
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How do I add the "contains: ..." data to an mp3 file?

I am trying to get gmediaserver (v0.13.0-8) to serve all of my mp3s. Right now it sees only a portion of them. I noticed that the "file" command produces different results for the working files than ...
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Trying to install ubuntu via DVD

I'm trying to install ubuntu 17.10 via DVD onto my acer aspire v3-511. I had an issue with Windows, where it would randomly wipe everything including the OS. I'm assumin the hardrive is on its way ...
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could not execute 'apt-key' to verify signature (is gnupg installed?)

I am using Ubuntu xenial (16.04.1) Problem is: kernels can not be updated or I cannot upgrade to 16.10, because after 'aptitude upgrade' or 'dorelease-upgrade -d' I get: 'could not execute 'apt-key' ...
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Is there a music player in 16.04 displaying the full date tag of ogg files, not only the year?

The DATE tag of most ogg files in my music collection follows ISO standard DATE=YYYY-MM-DD as allowed (and even recommended) in: https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment#Date_and_time . I used to play ...
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having trouble with broadband modem connection in ubuntu 15.10

having trouble with broadband modem connection in Ubuntu 15.10 it will sometimes recognize and connect for some minutes and stop, while sometimes it does not even connect.
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Remove all metadata from an audio (Opus) file except for a few tags via CLI?

The few tags I want to preserve are: artist name, track title, date, album title, album artwork. I can do this with MP4 files using exiftool like: exiftool -all= -tagsfromfile @ -artist -album -title ...
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2 sent pkts have tag for vlan 10 & 20, one should be received on socket created on eth1.10 and another on socket for eth1.20. But it doesn't happen

The packets sent with vlan tag 10 & 20 are received on both sockets. Why I am receiving 4 packets while only 2 packets were sent and also all received packets are untagged (without vlan tag)? What ...
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Program freezes when saving any file

Running latest Ubuntu. When saving text file program freezes and I can’t save or close unless I kill it. Still learning Linux can you guys help me.
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Apply audio tags from CSV file

I have an archive of audio files named like <title>.<ext> (e.g. Track title.ogg) and a CSV file with metadata for those files with the following structure: Album,Track number,Title,Author,...
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Code to change an xml tag if a certain value exists

This code changes the tag value from false to true if the false tag value exists (which is what I want) But if the tag value in the xml is true this as it is changes all the tags in the xml to true. ...
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Ubuntu restarts 3am everyday

I am new to Ubuntu. I have installed the server version with no GUI. At 3am every morning the server restarts itself. I don't know where to look to see if its some setting in ubuntu. I ran the 'last' ...
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How to enable shared folders on virtual box

I have seen many different variations of instructions on how to do this but none are working for me. It was never this difficult with vmware but I am stuck with VB for now. After installing the ...
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Is there an Ubuntu Discord?

So, I'm trying to upvote an answer here. Can't do that cause of lack of points. I'm trying to leave a comment. Can't do that cause of lack of points. But it seems I can leave a question.. so here it ...
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