I have a ton of various music files on my machine that are in various states of migrating from .mp3 to different formats. The primary reason for this is because of the issue of licensing between Linux and the MP3 format. And although there are GUI tools to do nearly every job you need, there [...]

Tags: mp3, mp3 conversion, mp3 encoding, ogg, ogg vorbis, wav
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

All too often the musically inclined seem to feel a bit left out of the Linux, open source community. At least that was the way for a long time. And then came along a few new tools and a few recording-specific distributions (such as 64 Studio and Linux Multimedia Studio) and the open source music [...]

Tags: drum machine, linux multimedia, recording studio, recording tools
Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

I have a number of large music directories on numerous drives. The files in these directories have been added (over the years) from various sources. The biggest problem with my collections is the tags on the files aren’t all correct. Because of this, some music players won’t list the information for the file which means [...]

Tags: mp3, mp3-player, music players, ogg, sound files, tag editing, tag editors, wav
Categories: Linux, Music Industry, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

I’ve used a lot of music players over the years. Pretty much they all take the same tact on organizing your music – you have a library and you have playlists. Pretty cut and dry. But today I came across a music player, Aqualung, that went about things a bit differently. And not only does [...]

Tags: audio player, burn cd, extract cd, flacc, mp3, music library, music player, ogg, rip cd
Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music. Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products. Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and [...]

Tags: music, music videos, vevo, youtube, youtube videos
Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

I have been working with the Acetone ISO manager and have been in awe at how much this tool can do. The creators of Acetone call it a CD/DVD image manager, but from my perspective it is much more than that. Acetone is more like an emulator for different types of ISOs that can allow [...]

Tags: cd burning, dvd burning, iso, mounting images, youtube videos
Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Q: What is a “brasero”?
A: A Spanish oven that is placed under a table in order to heat those sitting at the table.
Correct, but not in terms of Linux.
A 2.0: A GTK+ front end for cdrtools, growisofs, and (optionally) libburn.
Correct!
If you have used a modern Linux system then you know how easy the task of burning [...]

Tags: cd burning, cd writer, copy cd, dvd burning
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software