How do Archers play their music?

Roken · 2022-09-04 08:46:27

Typically, I put a vinyl record on the turntable, turn on the pre-amp and amplifier, start the turntable and then gently lower the stylus on to the platter.

Epp · 2022-09-04 11:26:12

lpr1 wrote:

Clementine is a good player, it doesn't really lack anything compared to best Windows based players, plus it's FOSS. But, you didn't name one of the best players = "Quod Libet", try it, I don't think you will regret it, for me, it is the best player.

Ok, thanks for the advice for "Quod Libet".

Today I started using Audacious. I think it's a great looking program. With all the features I mentioned above for Foobar.
Audacious seems a perfect replacement for Foobar so I might not try "Quod Libet".

It's not that I am looking for a discussion. Clementine does not really do it for me because it stops playing after a few pauses (play button does not work anymore).
This was the case on Ubuntu and now on Arch (with a new GPU and a new CPU and a fresh Arch install on a new SSD).

Sorry I came in a little too loud. I spoke too soon and based on just 2 small bad luck cases.

Great day!

Linski · 2022-09-25 09:08:20

I like my music spiced with news. That is why I wrote a script that takes news from news podcasts. The script plays these news and music from my favorite mp3 playlists. That is why I use mpg123 a lot. And ffmpeg to trim news broadcasts. Have a look at my github page.

VoDo · 2022-11-24 18:31:21

Since I am an apple sheep I discovered Cider for apple music!
For stored music I use amberol

twelveeighty · 2022-11-24 20:56:09

Linski wrote:

I like my music spiced with news

It's interesting how different tastes can be - news would actually be the LAST thing I would want to hear while listening to music. But I respect it and your efforts on Github, don't take it personal.

Awebb · 2022-11-25 09:14:05

Awebb wrote:

I say: "$GIRLFRIEND, how about some music? Some {electronic,metal,animesoundtrack,random} playlist, perhaps?"... and - POOF! - music.

A year later and a few updates, $GIRLFRIEND now supports the "Skip this song, please." and "Would you play that again?" commands.

mcloaked · 2022-11-25 10:57:17

Awebb wrote:

Awebb wrote:
I say: "$GIRLFRIEND, how about some music? Some {electronic,metal,animesoundtrack,random} playlist, perhaps?"... and - POOF! - music.
A year later and a few updates, $GIRLFRIEND now supports the "Skip this song, please." and "Would you play that again?" commands.

$GIRLFRIEND is useful though not infrequently she offers some weird music in response to a request - and I need to "$GIRLFRIEND, please STOP" and re-issue a differently phrased 'request' instead. If you are into ballroom and Latin dance music it can get tortuous, unless you have your own playlists! But on the laptop I mostly resort to VLC playing my own playlists of music I 'know' I will like!

tdtooke · 2023-05-02 20:57:55

I usually play records on my stereo. I still have my old stereo with the tower speakers from back when that was a thing. On the laptop I do sometimes use Amberol. I like that I can just open a folder with it. I tend to be an entire album kinda guy. It literally bothers me sometimes hearing songs not in the order they are in within the album they're from.

Edit: Anybody else think it's weird Amarok isn't around anymore?? The last time I was a linuxer having no Amarok would be unthinkable.

More Edit:

Roken wrote:

Typically, I put a vinyl record on the turntable, turn on the pre-amp and amplifier, start the turntable and then gently lower the stylus on to the platter.

I have considered upgrading to a more modern setup. I know buying a separate pre-amp is a lot more prevalent now. Not sure I'll do it, but I've googled it enough.

Yet more edit:

I just looked at Linski's github link. I think FunkRadio should be a script that plays 'One Nation Under a Groove' on repeat. Just me though..

Last edited by tdtooke (2023-05-02 21:23:52)

Fuxino · 2023-05-03 19:08:47

My music folder is organized by artists, with subfolders for each album. On Arch I use mpd+ncmpcpp to play music, while on Windows I'm using MediaMonkey (same on Android phone).

icar · 2023-05-03 20:00:28

flatpak run com.spotify.Client

sekret · 2023-05-09 14:30:24

I have a large music collection offline of about 60000 songs, which is 99% in the flac format, on my external drive. I've converted the entire collection to opus with 192 kbps and uploaded it to 1fichier, which I use as a cloud service. And I have it converted to opus with 96 kbps to my SD card (edit2: which I put into my old android phone if I want to have my collection with me) Sometimes my external drive is connected and mounted to my laptop, sometimes to my media center, which runs kodi on archlinuxarm and which I mount on my laptop aswell.

I love to have a shuffle playback of the entire collection. Moc, which I normally use, allows this aswell (edit: but moc doesn't support replaygain, so not as nice), but I have a key combination which runs the following script, which is quite nice.

#!/bin/sh

if [ -d "/run/media/sekret/8000GB/musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/run/media/sekret/8000GB/musik"
elif [ -d "/run/media/sekret/android/Music" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/run/media/sekret/android/Music"
elif [ -d "/mnt/alarm/mnt/8000GB/musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/mnt/alarm/mnt/8000GB/musik"
elif [ -d "/mnt/1fichier/Musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/mnt/1fichier/Musik"
else
 notify-send "Keine Musik verfügbar!"
fi

I know that this script is horribly written with all the repetitions etc. I'm not a good coder!!! What I meant to show is the idea behind it.

Last edited by sekret (2023-05-09 14:37:37)

ugjka · 2023-05-09 15:41:23

sudo pacman -S spotify-launcher

Awebb · 2023-05-09 18:40:41

sekret wrote:

I have a large music collection offline of about 60000 songs, which is 99% in the flac format, on my external drive. I've converted the entire collection to opus with 192 kbps and uploaded it to 1fichier, which I use as a cloud service. And I have it converted to opus with 96 kbps to my SD card (edit2: which I put into my old android phone if I want to have my collection with me) Sometimes my external drive is connected and mounted to my laptop, sometimes to my media center, which runs kodi on archlinuxarm and which I mount on my laptop aswell.
I love to have a shuffle playback of the entire collection. Moc, which I normally use, allows this aswell (edit: but moc doesn't support replaygain, so not as nice), but I have a key combination which runs the following script, which is quite nice.
#!/bin/sh

if [ -d "/run/media/sekret/8000GB/musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/run/media/sekret/8000GB/musik"
elif [ -d "/run/media/sekret/android/Music" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/run/media/sekret/android/Music"
elif [ -d "/mnt/alarm/mnt/8000GB/musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/mnt/alarm/mnt/8000GB/musik"
elif [ -d "/mnt/1fichier/Musik" ]
then
 st -t "shuffle entire collection" -e mpv --no-video --no-audio-display --shuffle --replaygain=track "/mnt/1fichier/Musik"
else
 notify-send "Keine Musik verfügbar!"
fi
I know that this script is horribly written with all the repetitions etc. I'm not a good coder!!! What I meant to show is the idea behind it.

Arrrrrr matey, black flag and sails set!

tdtooke · 2023-05-18 04:02:35

Arrrrr! I'll share a script I find very useful when dealing with flacs. I'm not a digital audio purist and I'm already listening over bluetoothed ear buds so I don't see the point, but I can appreciate that many love flac. I usually batch convert them with:

 #!/bin/bash
 for i in *.flac;
  do name=`echo "$i" | rev | cut -c6- | rev`
  echo "$name"
  ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 0 -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "${name}.mp3"
done

The ffmpeg part is written by me, got the other bits here and there. And my scripting is pretty lousy too, but you get the idea.

seth · 2023-05-18 06:22:15

fzfamp

#!/bin/bash

if (( ${#@} > 0 )); then
    /usr/bin/ls -1 "${@}" | fzf --multi --bind "enter:execute-multi(mpv.a {})" --preview-window=hidden \
            --preview=/usr/bin/false --layout=reverse-list -e --no-sort -d '/' --with-nth=-3.. --nth=..
else
    locate -i '/home/*.mp3' '/home/*.m4a' | fzf --multi --bind "enter:execute-multi(mpv.a {})" \
            --preview-window=hidden --preview=/usr/bin/false --layout=reverse-list -e --no-sort -d '/' \
            --with-nth=-3.. --nth=..
fi

mpv.a

#!/bin/bash
IPC_SOCK=/tmp/.$USER.mpv.a.socket
case "$1" in
    play)
    COMMAND='{ "command": ["set_property", "pause", false] }' 
    ;;
    pause)
    COMMAND='{ "command": ["set_property", "pause", true] }'
    ;;
    playpause)
    COMMAND='cycle pause'
    ;;
    next)
    COMMAND='playlist-next'
    ;;
    prev)
    COMMAND='playlist-prev'
    ;;
esac
if [ -n "$COMMAND" ]; then
    echo "$COMMAND" | socat - $IPC_SOCK > /dev/null 2>&1
    exit $?
fi
real_path="$1"
[ -e "$real_path" ] && real_path="$(realpath "$real_path")"
if socat -u OPEN:/dev/null UNIX-CONNECT:$IPC_SOCK >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -e "$real_path" ] || [[ "$real_path" = *"://"* ]]; then
    echo -e 'loadfile "'$real_path'"\n{ "command": ["set_property", "pause", false] }' | socat - $IPC_SOCK > /dev/null && exit 0
fi
exec mpv --stop-screensaver=no --input-ipc-server=$IPC_SOCK --ontop --no-border --geometry=360x120-64+32 \
    --title='${metadata/by-key/title:${filename/no-ext}}' \
    --video-unscaled=yes  --force-window=yes --osd-on-seek=no --idle=yes --keep-open=yes --x11-name="linAMP" \
    --script-opts=osc-layout=box,osc-scaleforcedwindow=4.0,osc-visibility=always,osc-vidscale=no,osc-windowcontrols_alignment=left,osc-title='${metadata/by-key/title:${filename/no-ext}}' \
    "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Bicyforecastle · 2023-05-22 00:26:47

Now that both cantata and cantata-next are dead, I'm looking for an actively maintained MPD frontend that displays album art. Anyone got any leads?

For now, cantata is still chugging along just fine. I imagine it's only a matter of time until there's a breaking update, though.

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