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Music notation software for Ubuntu
The top music notation software are:
MidiEditor Graphical interface to edit, play, and record Midi data. Last Update: 2018-06-05
MuseScore is a Graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. It has ...
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Recursively copy files from one directory to another
Use:
find /media/kalenpw/MyBook/Music/ -name '*.mp3' -exec cp {} /media/kalenpw/HDD/Music \;
The reason for your command not working is that names containing wildcards (*.mp3) are expanded before ...
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How can I fix incorrect mp3 duration?
If you don't want to install anything new, try with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i file_orig.mp3 -acodec copy file_fixed.mp3
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Where can I find a metronome for music practice?
As mentioned in a comment, I couldn't get the mentioned metronomes (existing for Linux/Ubuntu) working on 16.04, at least not out of the box. I didn't spend much time in getting it to work, since ...
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Music notation software for Ubuntu
Engraving:
http://lilypond.org/ - sudo apt-get install lilypond
Designed primarily for music notation
Optical font scaling
Special ledger line handling
Proportional spacing
Inspired by Rosegarden (...
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How can I create folders in folders in terminal
You may want to put on your {curly} braces for this one
For the sake of this argument we will pretend ./music doesn't exist
In your base directory for ./music we will use the -p command to create ...
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How can I create folders in folders in terminal
Sure, execute this in the music folder where the artist folders are:
for artist in */; do
for folder in "1. Albums" "2. EP" "3. Singles" "4. Live"; do
mkdir "$artist/$folder"
done
done
...
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Changing sample format and bit depth on audio files with ffmpeg
Use the default
Default for WAV output is a 16-bit encoder (pcm_s16le), so all you need to do is:
ffmpeg -i input.wav -ar 44100 output.wav
Or manually declare a 16-bit encoder
ffmpeg -i input.wav -c:...
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Where can I find a metronome for music practice?
It sounds like you're looking for a metronome!
The audio-editing software Audacity can generate a steady, metronome-like beat or tone (look under the "Generate" menu), though there are simpler ...
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Where can I find a metronome for music practice?
Simple Bash metronome
Usage
metronome.sh [beats per minute] [beats per measure]
Info
It plays at 120 bpm in 4 by default
More info and a much more sophisticated script is available on my GitHub ...
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Apple Music on Ubuntu
EDIT 2019: Now it's much more easy to use Web Apple Music Players (see answers below)
EDIT 2018: I've installed it and it works (Ubuntu 16.04 and wine 2.16).
Install iTunes with Apple Music on ...
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Any ubuntu tool to edit tag in mp3 files in group
Without installation, you may use rhythmbox to do it
open the file with rhythmbox and right click > Properties and then do it
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What music streaming services work on Ubuntu?
There is a Spotify package for Ubuntu that works well, and pithos works with Pandora.
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A script for copying random folders
The script below should do the job:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import random
import os
import subprocess
import shutil
# set the desired number of folders to pick below
n_selection = 5
# set the name of ...
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MIDI controller problem
If you are able to see your MIDI controller when you run:
lsusb
then this guide should get you set up with the basics. It goes into quite a lot of detail and discusses possible errors you might ...
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How do I play a midi from the command line in Ubuntu?
I know this thread is old, but I was looking for answers for a Raspberry Pi but didn't find any. After more work I came up with the following, it may work in Ubuntu too. The output is through a cheap ...
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How can I install Sonos on Ubuntu
Here is a tutorial to install Sonos on ubuntu using Wine, PlayonLinux and Samba (for the music library).
Install the Sonos Controller
The first thing to do is to install Wine and PlayonLinux so your ...
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Recursively copy files from one directory to another
You have specifically mentioned the files(s)/directory(ies) to be copied as using *.mp3 i.e. any file/directory name ending in .mp3.
So any file ending in .mp3 in /media/kalenpw/MyBook/Music/ ...
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Is there any way to make Audacious music player playes still after it exits?
First, go to View > Visualizations
On side menu, click "Plugins", then open "General" tab, you'll see few checkbox option. Enable the "Status Icon" one.
Open "Settings" to configure this plugin, ...
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Clementine doesn't play m4a anymore after 16.04 upgrade
Going to take a guess that your .m4a are alac which would be decoded by gstreamer1.0-libav.
Atm that plugin is broken in 16.04, I reported & a fix has been done but not yet released. You can get ...
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Apple Music on Ubuntu
Apple Music uses iTunes, you could try using wine/crossover to run it on Ubuntu. The problem is that iTunes has been very hard to run on Ubuntu. You can check the status of iTunes running on wine here....
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Apple Music on Ubuntu
Apple does currently not have a dedicated desktop program for Ubuntu. However, they provode an API thru theirs MusicKit JS (https://developer.apple.com/musickit/).
Developers has used the MusicKit ...
6
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Why is ProjectM not opening in Ubuntu 17.04?
Just install ttf-dejavu:
sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu
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Building Ardour 5
Update: Building Ardour 6 on Ubuntu 20.04
By trial and error, this might include some not needed packages:
This is from the previous answer, but with packages that errored removed:
sudo apt install -y ...
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How to unistall Tauon Music Player?
To remove a program you have installed with flatpak you use the flatpak command.
How do I remove apps from my flatpak?
flatpak is the primary Flatpak command, to which specific commands are appended. ...
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What music streaming services work on Ubuntu?
If you are ok with using web apps, then there are quite a few:
Google Play Music - https://play.google.com/music
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/browse
Songza - http://songza.com
Amazon Music - ...
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How can I query mplayer about the currently playing song?
Something like this crazy script should work:
lsof -c mplayer | fgrep ".mp3" | awk -F"/" '{ print $NF; }' | cut -d'.' -f1
Basically it works this way:
lsof part looks for all open files that are ...
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Music notation software for Ubuntu
What about trying Rosegarden - it is in the repositories, so a simple sudo apt-get install rosegardendoes the trick.
I am not certain it's the best alternative, but Rosegarden exists for more than ...
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Errors with installing libimobiledevice
If you are landing here with Ubuntu 20.04 Focal then you need to run sudo apt install libimobiledevice6 usbmuxd libimobiledevice-utils
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