Nuvola Player 2.1 Beta 1 Released [Cloud Music Player With Desktop Integration]

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s1600/nuvola-player_1.png"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s320/nuvola-player_1.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/">Nuvola Player</a> is a cloud music player that supports services such as Grooveshark, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, Rdio, Hype Machine or 8tracks.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The application integrates tightly with the desktop, providing notifications, multimedia keys support, Unity quicklists, Mpris v2 (Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Media Player extension integration) support and more. Other features include last.fm scrobbling, proxy support, Dock Manager integration (integrates with Docky, AWN or DockBarX) and lyrics fetching.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s1600/nuvola-player_2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s320/nuvola-player_2.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player plugins - it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to last.fm<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 has been <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110794636546911932554/posts/4eFtmzJZ93E">released</a> today, featuring the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new supported service: Deezer;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">format support information: when a plugin is missing, Nuvola Player now displays a warning;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">persistent notifications with actions (so you can skip to the next track, pause or go to the previous track from the notifications) - these are supported by GNOME Shell (including the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/gnome-shell-how-to-enable-notifications.html">lock screen</a>) and Xfce;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to Last.fm;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added a few keyboard shortcuts: Go back <shift><alt>Left and go forward <shift><alt>Right<br />"show only toolbar" and "show both toolbar and menubar" have been removed and the main menu has been reorganized. A context menu (right mouse click) provides quick access to go back/forward, go home and reload actions; </alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>it is possible to set preference of a dark GTK+ theme (so for instance, if you're using Adwaita, selecting this will make the application use Adwaita dark);</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>service selector is opened in a separate window and uses native GTK+ widgets instead of web view;</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li><shift><alt><shift><alt>main view respects text size set in Accesibility preferences;</alt></shift></alt></shift> </li><li>many <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/releases/2.1/bug_fixes.html">bug fixes</a> and more.</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s1600/nuvola-player_3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player notification gnome shell" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s320/nuvola-player_3.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player persistent GNOME Shell notification with actions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 users can install the latest Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 by using its official beta PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/beta<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />Alternatively, you can also use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/stable">stable</a> or <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/unstable">unstable</a> PPAs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can download the source or report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://launchpad.net/nuvola-player">Launchpad</a>.</b></div>

Nuvola Player 2.1 Beta 1 Released [Cloud Music Player With Desktop Integration]

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Rhythmbox Google Play Music Plugin: Rhythmbox-GMusic

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rhythmbox-GMusic is a Rhythmbox plugin for <a href="http://music.google.com/">Google Play Music</a>.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrkqDWghagMjjT7JMWNg3Mf7aziVdbrzsDTUUA7zK9dR8dQdeAjt_IVfh0V5l_850NmO7XF_nrk3JzWQgQYlWj1Y72B8j3UN-Pa-l9fNnuvYeteje1zCru6ur_fn-jHUnErVLiDxESd8s/s1600/rhythmbox-gmusic.png"><img alt="Rhythmbox Google Music" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrkqDWghagMjjT7JMWNg3Mf7aziVdbrzsDTUUA7zK9dR8dQdeAjt_IVfh0V5l_850NmO7XF_nrk3JzWQgQYlWj1Y72B8j3UN-Pa-l9fNnuvYeteje1zCru6ur_fn-jHUnErVLiDxESd8s/s320/rhythmbox-gmusic.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Using Rhythmbox-GMusic, you can play your Google Play music using Rhythmbox. The plugin features a very simple and uses an interface similar to the default Rhythmbox layout, with two columns for artists and albums followed by a list of tracks. There's also a search bar so you can easily search your Google Play Music.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's no contect menu so you can't right click tracks to add them to the play queue, but you can do that by using drag and drop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the plugin doesn't allow you to add tracks to local playlists (except the Queue playlist which I've mentioned above), but it can read playlists created using the Google Play Music web interface.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please note that for now, <i>Google Play Music All Access</i> is not supported.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Rhythmbox Google Music Plugin in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Rhythmbox-Gmusic in Ubuntu 13.04</b>, <b>use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvbn-rm/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-gmusic python-dateutil python-requests python-validictory</code></pre><b>For Ubuntu 12.10</b>, you need to manually download and install <i>python-validictory</i> from <a href="https://launchpad.net/~dput-ng-maint/+archive/daily/+build/4210644">HERE</a>, then run the commands above.<br /><br />Unfortunately the Ubuntu 12.04 package doesn't work properly, at least with the Rhythmbox 2.96 package available in the Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, open Rhythmbox (restart it if it was running), from its menu select <i>Plugins</i> and enable the <i>Google Play Music plugin</i>. You should then have a new "Google Music" entry in the Rhythmbox sidebar - here, enter you Google username and password (the password is stored in the GNOME Keyring) and upon logging in successfully, your Google Play music should show up.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For installing the Rhythmbox Google Music plugin via PIP, grab the source code or report bugs, see its <a href="https://github.com/nvbn/rhythmbox-gmusic">GitHub page</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/cloud-music-player-nuvola-sees-new.html">Nuvola Player,</a> a cloud music player that supports Google Play Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks, Pandora, Deezer, Rdio and Amazon Cloud Player</i></div>

Rhythmbox Google Play Music Plugin: Rhythmbox-GMusic

Rhythmbox-GMusic is a Rhythmbox plugin for Google Play Music . Using Rhythmbox-GMusic, you can play your Google Play music using Rhythmbox. ...

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PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/index.html">PuddleTag</a>, a Linux audio tag editor similar to the popular Windows tool <i>Mp3Tag</i>, has been updated recently with new features and bug fixes.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="PuddleTag" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s320/puddletag.png" title="PuddleTag" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag comes with a highly customizable interface and a spreadsheet-like layout, making it easy to edit all the tags you want. Using it, you can easily batch edit your music files tags, rename files based on tag information, supports adding album covers to your files, can import tags from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB, AcoustID and MusicBrainz and more. It even supports Mp3Tag tag sources.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application supports the following formats: ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest PuddleTag 1.0.2 RC1, released yesterday, features the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Added dropdown in Extended Tags that works like Tag Panel. Useful for editing multiple valued fields;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Support for MusicBrainz cover art;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Search by ID for MusicBrainz tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art can be dragged from browser. If link can be resolved, image will be loaded;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can now submit your tags containing MusicBrainz IDs to AcoustID;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">__total can be edited in Tag Panel and other places;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added disambiguation to album title for MusiBrainz so that album titles would be "Somaro (Deluxe Edition)" instead of just "Somaro";</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Multiple-valued fields can be added using '\\' in extended tags;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a confirmation dialog if copying large amounts of data;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added canto field to Discogs tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Column settings now take ordering made by user (by dragging, etc) into account;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Directory modified date is force-changed if files are modified;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: MP4 tagging not working at all;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: directory renaming not stripping invalid chars;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: $validate scripting function failing when '/' in arguments;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: unable to delete fields if __total populated;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: checked Actions being overwritten by check Quick Actions selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: Discogs didn't return all album info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag 1.0.2 may not be considered a stable release yet, but its developer says he has been "<i>using this release since forever and consider it to work pretty well</i>" and if no issues are reported, he will release this as the stable 1.0.2 version.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PuddleTag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest PuddleTag by using the WebUpd8 PuddleTag PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Or, if you don't want to add our PPA or you're not using Ubuntu, you can download the latest PuddleTag deb or source files from its downloads page:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html#development-builds">Download PuddleTag</a></b></div>

PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

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How To Automatically Mute Music When Receiving VoIP Calls [PulseAudio]

<div style="text-align: justify;">By default, in Ubuntu and probably other Linux distributions<b>, if you're playing music </b>in Rhythmbox, Audacious and so on<b> while receiving a call in applications such as Skype, Ekiga Softphone, SFLphone VoIP Client and other VoIP applications, the music continues to play even after answering the call. PulseAudio has a feature that allows pausing or muting the music when receiving a call, but it's not enabled by default, at least in Ubuntu, so here's how to enable it. </b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74tdH1T324ZW_How52xq8zPHa4tqVCcuZO2tnc6RL3efSV23QMjoTUQ51Tq_EdQlKdKPP9aSg_3Ui8lNCdwWVqssHcRe5hU5T07P5Bsp2YadAb4pdGrvTwTPvrV_vVcRjwk8O4G-bECIH/s1600/audacious-muted-skype-pulseaudio.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="skype call audacious muted" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74tdH1T324ZW_How52xq8zPHa4tqVCcuZO2tnc6RL3efSV23QMjoTUQ51Tq_EdQlKdKPP9aSg_3Ui8lNCdwWVqssHcRe5hU5T07P5Bsp2YadAb4pdGrvTwTPvrV_vVcRjwk8O4G-bECIH/s320/audacious-muted-skype-pulseaudio.png" title="skype call audacious muted" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">To be able to use this PulseAudio feature, you need to enable two PulseAudio modules (one is already enabled in Ubuntu): "<i>module-role-cork</i>" and "<i>module-augment-properties</i>" and for applications that don't support this by default, to add a <i>media.role</i> to the application desktop file. Rhythmbox, Banshee and Skype (probably other applications too) already have this build-in so for them, you only need to load the PulseAudio modules I was talking about earlier (see below). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here's the behavior you should expect after using the instructions below:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>for some applications that have this feature built-in, the music player (Rhythmbox, Banshee) will pause the music when answering a call on Skype, SFLphone, etc.;</li><li>some applications that have this feature build-in will mute the sound when answering a call on a VoIP applications. Example of such an app: Totem (Videos); </li><li>for applications that don't support this by default, like Audacious and Linphone for instance, the music will be muted when answering a phone call.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Please note that this doesn't currently work with web browsers</b> so if you're watching a video on YouTube in Firefox, Chrome, etc., the video won't be paused or muted when receiving a call.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>PulseAudio: automatically mute music when answering calls in Skype, other VoIP apps</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The instructions below have been tested in Ubuntu, but they should work in other Linux distributions as well, that's why I've added generic instructions too.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.a. Ubuntu: </b>firstly, let's load the "module-role-cork" PulseAudio module ("module-augment-properties" is already enabled by default in Ubuntu):</div><br />- <b>for Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04 and newer:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>pactl load-module module-role-cork</code></pre><b>- for Ubuntu 12.04 or older:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>pactl load-module module-cork-music-on-phone</code></pre><br />This will only load the module for this session and the changes will be lost after a system restart so let's make this permanent. To do this, open <i>/etc/pulse/default.pa</i> as root with a text editor - I'll use Gedit below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo -H gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">(<i>I've used "sudo" instead of "gksu" because "gksu" is no longer available by default in Ubuntu 13.04 and it seems the developers want to stop supporting it anyway</i>)</div><br />and:<br />- <b>for Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04 or newer</b>, search for "<i>load-module module-role-cork</i>" and uncomment that line (to "uncomment" means to remove the "#" from the beginning of the line);<br />- <b>for Ubuntu 12.04</b> or older, the module name is different so search for "<i>load-module module-cork-music-on-phone</i>" and uncomment this line (to "uncomment" means to remove the "#" from the beginning of the line).<br /><br />Then save the file. <br /><br /><b>1.b. For other Linux distributions:</b> make sure both "module-role-cork" and "module-augment-properties" PulseAudio modules are loaded:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>pactl load-module module-role-cork<br />pactl load-module module-augment-properties</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The first one might be called "module-cork-music-on-phone" on older PulseAudio versions so you may want to try that too if PulseAudio is older than 2.1. If you get an error when running the commands above, it may mean that the module was already loaded.</div><br />Then, open <i>/etc/pulse/default.pa</i> as root with a text editor - I'll use Gedit for the command below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo -H gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa</code></pre><br />Then search for "<i>load-module module-role-cork</i>" (if you can't find it, search for "<i>load-module module-cork-music-on-phone</i>" instead) and "<i>load-module </i><i>module-augment-properties</i>" and uncomment both lines (to "uncomment" means to remove the "#" from the beginning of the line). And finally, save the file.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu and other Linux distributions: for Skype, </b><b> SFLphone, Rhythmbox and Banshee (and probably other applications), that's all you have to do</b>. Now when you answer a call, Banshee or Rhythmbox should be automatically paused.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Only for applications that don't support this by default</b>, such as Audacious and Linphone: you need to edit the application desktop file (which you'll find in <i>/usr/share/applications/</i>) and add the following at the bottom of the file:</div><br />- for music apps (example: Audacious):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>X-PulseAudio-Properties=media.role=music</code></pre>- for VoIP / SIP apps (example: Linphone):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>X-PulseAudio-Properties=media.role=phone</code></pre>After making the changes, close the application and start it again from the menu / Dash.<br /><br /><b>Example:</b> for Audacious, you need to edit the <i>/usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop</i> file so open that file as root with a text editor - I'll use Gedit below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo -H gedit /usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop</code></pre>and at the bottom of this file, add "X-PulseAudio-Properties=media.role=music" (without the quotes), save the file, close Audacious and start it from the menu / Dash. Now, if Audacious is playing when receiving a call on Skype for instance, the music will be muted when answering the call.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Basically, PulseAudio will mute any application with "media.role=music" when some other application with "media.role=phone" starts makes use of the sound </b>(although when ringing, the music isn't muted until you answer the call, at least that's how it has worked in my test with Skype).<br /><br />For video players (e.g.: VLC, which doesn't support this PulseAudio feature by default), you could add "media.role=video", but you can also simply stick with "media.role=music" since that will get the job done for any type of application or even games. See all the supported PulseAudio media roles, <a href="http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/proplist_8h.html#a06b7c7a5bfc7a20974b7785031169596">HERE</a>. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One more thing: remember to start those applications from the desktop files (from Unity Dash, the menu, etc.) and not from the command line or else this won't work (except for applications which support this feature by default, like Rhythmbox or Banshee.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1a2h9m/getting_voip_applications_and_music_applications/">reddit </a></i></div></div>

How To Automatically Mute Music When Receiving VoIP Calls [PulseAudio]

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Free DJ Software `Mixxx` Sees New Release

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After more than a year of work, <a href="http://www.mixxx.org/">Mixxx</a> 1.11.0 has been released recently, featuring a new beat detector, colored 3-band waveforms and many other new features </b>as well as various bug fixes and performance improvements.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMYnJF-mPT1Zf6N_K4B9ko5ECyVRoziwC7aTLxg0BlpxYHbA1k5bjcwZ5KSSLK6FUrFCmiY1pkjjzbvksGSq49OTeZj_Ri2zXIgLM9AnOX8UaI_RafyqlnrksO4etoBUZbOsIlpDkA9WH/s1600/mixxx-1.11.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mixxx DJ Software" border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMMYnJF-mPT1Zf6N_K4B9ko5ECyVRoziwC7aTLxg0BlpxYHbA1k5bjcwZ5KSSLK6FUrFCmiY1pkjjzbvksGSq49OTeZj_Ri2zXIgLM9AnOX8UaI_RafyqlnrksO4etoBUZbOsIlpDkA9WH/s320/mixxx-1.11.0.png" title="Mixxx DJ Software" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mixxx.org/">Mixxx</a> is an advanced free / open source DJ software for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X</b>. Among its main features are: parallel or split scratchable waveform displays, spinning vinyl widgets, MP3, OGG, WAVE, M4A / AAC, and FLAC playback with support for extra formats through plugins, Shoutcast and Icecast broadcasting, microphone support, automatic crossfading with Auto DJ, crates and playlists, reads iTunes, Traktor, and Rhythmbox libraries, pitch-independent time stretch, vinyl emulation, BPM detection and estimation and much more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite having many advanced features, Mixxx isn't that hard to use, although its interface may seem a bit confusing at first. Also, Mixxx comes with various skins, each optimized for multiple screen resolutions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New features in the latest Mixxx 1.11.0:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>colored, 3-band Waveforms;</li><li>brand New Beat Detector;</li><li>HID and Bulk Controller Support, with HID presets for: EKS Otus, Traktor Kontrol F1, Hercules DJ Console Mk1, Mk2 and MP3 e2, Nintendo Wiimote, Pioneer CDJ 850/900/2000 and Sony SixxAxis;</li><li>session history;</li><li>new effect, "Beatloop Rolls", that works just like a beatloop except when you release the button the deck jumps to where it would have been if you hadn't started the loop;</li><li>Preview Deck: preview tracks in your headphones without having to load them into a main deck;</li><li>advanced search, e.g.: find all tracks between 100 and 120 BMP with a rating greater than 4 using "bpm:100-120 rating:>4". More about this in the <a href="http://mixxx.org/manual/1.11/chapters/djing_with_mixxx.html#using-search-operators">Mixxx manual</a>;</li><li>improved AutoDJ;</li><li>point-and-click MIDI mapping;</li><li>new Sample Grid skin;</li><li>time widgets;</li><li>Sample Deck Improvements;</li><li>improved user manual;</li><li>new controller support: Mixxx certified: Allen & Heath Xone K2, EKS Otus, Keith McMillen Instruments QuNeo and Vestax VCI-400 but there's also community support for Akai LPD8, American Audio VMS2, Hercules DJ Console Mk1, Hercules DJ Control AIR, Nintendo Wiimote, Traktor Kontrol F1 and mano thers;</li><li>more.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">For a complete list of changes and new features in Mixxx 1.11.0, see its official <a href="http://www.mixxx.org/whats-new-in-mixxx-1-11/">changelog</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Mixxx in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest Mixxx DJ software by using its official PPA. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mixxx/mixxx<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mixxx libportaudio2</code></pre>If you don't want to use a PPA or don't need the latest version, you can try the older version available in the official Ubuntu repositories / Ubuntu Software Center:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://mixxx"><img alt="Available in Ubuntu Software Center" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.mixxx.org/download/">Download Mixxx</a> (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X)</b>

Free DJ Software `Mixxx` Sees New Release

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Download Ambiance Theme For Spotify

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Michael Tunnell has created a nice Ambiance theme for <a href="http://www.spotify.com/">Spotify</a> which makes the Spotify Linux client integrate better with the Ubuntu desktop.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><i>For those not familiar with Spotify, this is a music streaming service with comes with desktop applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X as well as iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone. The service is available in a limited number of countries. More @ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify">Wikipedia</a>.</i><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ambiance Spotify theme comes with Ambiance-like toolbar and colors, a better Spotify tray icon especially designed to look like the Ubuntu Mono Dark icon set (the default icons used in Ubuntu), along with other tweaks that try to give Spotify a more native feel.</div><br />Here's a screenshot in which I'm using the Ambiance Spotify theme in Ubuntu:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ambiance.png" rel="image_group" title="Ubuntu Ambiance theme for Spotify"><img alt="Spotify Ambiance theme Ubuntu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ambiance_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a>And below you can see the original Spotify for Linux theme:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ubuntu-default.png" rel="image_group" title="Default Spotify for Linux theme"><img alt="Spotify default Linux theme" src="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ubuntu-default_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to install Ambiance theme for Spotify</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To use the Ambiance Spotify theme, firstly make sure you've <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/how-to-install-native-spotify-linux.html" title="How To Install Spotify In Ubuntu (With Fixes)">installed the native Spotify Linux client</a>. Then, <b>download Ambiance for Spotify from <a href="http://michaeltunnell.com/blog/16-linux/22-ubuntu-ambiance-theme-for-spotify-plus-radiance-icon">HERE</a></b> (see the bottom of the post for a download button) and <b>place the downloaded archive in your home folder.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. </b>Then, close Spotify and <b>run the following commands to install the Ambiance Spotify theme:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>tar -xvf ubuntu-ambiance-spotify-theme*.tar.gz<br />sudo cp resources.zip /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After this, you can remove the downloaded archive as well as the "resources.zip" file from your home directory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to revert the changes and go back to the default Spotify for Linux look, close Spotify and then simply reinstall it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install --reinstall spotify-client</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to / via <a href="https://plus.google.com/b/101912980608854649615/110583156332879711581/posts/MXaMsqQsE7x?cfem=1">+Michael Tunnell</a></i></div>

Download Ambiance Theme For Spotify

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Audio Tag Editor `Puddletag` 1.0.0 Stable Released

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="puddletag" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s320/puddletag.png" title="puddletag" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/">Puddletag</a> is an awesome <a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/">Mp3tag</a>-like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it easy to edit them.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with a highly customizable interface and supports mass tagging and most features that should exist in an audio tag editor like extracting tag information from filenames, ranaming files based on their tags, along with some other cool features like support for downloading cover art via Amazon or retrieving tags from Discogs, FreeDB or MusicBrainz.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of work, Puddletag 1.0.0 stable has been released today. Here are the major changes included in the latest Puddletag 1.0.0: </b></div><ul><li>AcoustID support: AcoustID is a music fingerprinting service that works by calculating a unique fingerprint for your audio files and trying to match it to data in the AcoustID database. This allows you to find information for tracks that have no metadata. To be able to use this, you'll need libchromaprint-tools and libchromaprint0 - in Ubuntu, install them using "sudo apt-get install libchromaprint-tools libchromaprint0"</li><li>Mp3tag tag sources are fully supported</li><li>Massively updated parser</li><li>Fixed Amazon tag source as now requires AssociateTag to do lookups.</li><li>Improved mass tagging</li><li>Support for MusicBrainz's and Discogs's new API</li><li>$regex function added.</li><li>Updated icon</li><li>ID3v2.3 frames are written in same order as Mp3tag's.</li><li>VA album lookups for Discogs.</li><li>And many bug fixes</li></ul><br />For how to use Puddletag, visit its <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/docs.html">online documentation</a> (includes some tutorials too).<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Puddletag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To add the WebUpd8 Puddletag PPA and install the latest Puddletag 1.0 in Ubuntu Quantal, Precise, Oneiric, Natty, Maverick or Lucid, use the following commands (the package is also available in the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">main WebUpd8 PPA</a>):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions (there are also .deb files available for download if you don't want to use our PPA), get Puddletag via <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html">SourceForge</a>.</div>

Audio Tag Editor `Puddletag` 1.0.0 Stable Released

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