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  • Exaile 0.3.0 is a Music Player for Ubuntu

    Exaile 0.3.0 is a Music Player for Ubuntu

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments

    Multimedia is important component of an OS and Linux has plenty of options to handle multimedia, especially music. Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and incorporates many features including support for several portable players.

    Exaile is a solid choice for Ubuntu users to manage their music collections. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling. It also supports Internet radio services like Shoutcast, includes tabbed playlists, and supports your iPod and other portable music players.

    Exaile
    Install Exaile 0.3.0 on Ubuntu

    Let’s take a look at how to install Exaile 0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04. The first step in the process is to get PPA added to your software sources list. Go to System \ Administration \ Software Sources.


    Software Sources ubuntu

    Go the the tab that reads Third Party Software and add the following:

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu jaunty main

    Exaile PPA

    Adding the OpenPGP security key

    1. Go to the Exaile PPA page (At the end of the post)

    2. Download the signing key 1024R/43CBFCC0 (At the end of the post) from the PPA page.

    3. Copy the key information on to gedit and save the file as Exaile on your desktop.
    Exaile GPG
    4. Import the Exaile OpenPGP key (that you saved on your desktop) by going to the Authentication tab on software sources window.

    Exaile GPG key

    Install Exaile

    Drop down to terminal and type the following commands

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install exaile

    This should download and install Exaile 0.3.0 on your machine which takes a couple minutes.

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    Running Exaile

    You can run Exaile by going to:

    Applications > Sounds & Videos > Exaile Music Player
    Exaile Menu

    If you are a Linux user and want a cool way to play and manage your music collection, you might want to give Exaile a try.

    Download Exaile 0.3.0.1

     

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  • Ripping CD Music with cdparanoia

    Ripping CD Music with cdparanoia

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments

    cdparanoia is a command line     audio CD digital audio extraction application. You can use use it for compiling music in a format suitable for your PC or mobile music player. cdrparanoia is available on almost all linux distributiions.
    On ubuntu you can install it with

    $ sudo apt-get install cdparanoia

    For trying out cdpaanoia ,put an audio CD in your cd drive and run the following command from a terminal.

    $ cdparanoia -vsQ
    ...
    Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
    Checking for SCSI emulation...
    Checking for MMC style command set...
    Verifying CDDA command set...
    ...
    Table of contents (audio tracks only):
    track length begin copy pre ch
    ===========================================================
    1. 18295 [04:03.70] 0 [00:00.00] no no 2
    2. 16872 [03:44.72] 18295 [04:03.70] no no 2
    ...
    11. 17908 [03:58.58] 174587 [38:47.62] no no 2
    12. 17342 [03:51.17] 192495 [42:46.45] no no 2
    TOTAL 209837 [46:37.62] (audio only)

    The above output show the capabilities of your CDROM , wheither CDDA is supported, SCSI emulation is used etc. Cdparanoia extracts audio from compact discs directly as data, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM.

    Here are some examples of cdparanoia command lines that I use.

    $ cdparanoia -B Rip tracks as WAV files by track name
    $ cdparanoia -B -- “3-5” Rip tracks 3-5 into separate files
    $ cdparanoia -- “3-7” myrip.wav Rip tracks 3-8 to one file (myrip.wav)
    $ cdparanoia -- “1:[40]-”     Rip tracks 1 from 40 secs in to end of the CD
    $ cdparanoia -f -- “3”     Rip track 3 and save to AIFF format
    $ cdparanoia -a -- “5”     Rip track 5 and save to AIFC format
    $ cdparanoia -w -- “1” my.wav     Rip track 1 and name it my.wav


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  • Pandora | One Review

    Pandora | One Review

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | 7 Comments
    As a user of the online music service Pandora. These are my thoughts on the service and the software.

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