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gMusicbrowser is an open-source jukebox for large collections written in perl.

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Pause music with bluetooth headset button

I have a bluetooth headset (Philips SHB7150 if that matters). Everything works fine; I get audio, volume works, and previous/next works. But the play/pause button does nothing. I tried looking at it with xev, and it gives me XF86AudioPlay key…
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Transferring music ratings from rhythmbox to gmusicbrowser

Context Used rhythmbox on older Ubuntu. Switched to Xubuntu 13.10. Default player is gmusicbrowser. Rhythmbox still available. I have previously, on rhythmbox, patiently rated much of my music collection, which allows to let it play automatically…
Stéphane Gourichon
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How can I export/save a playlist in gmusicbrowser?

Xubuntu 14.04 gmusicbrowser 1.1.13.1 I'd like to transfer my playlists from gmusicbrowser to Banshee. For this I'd like to export the playlists in gmusicbrowser. Is this possible?
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Make Gmusicbrowser default music player

This program doesn't appear in the "Default applications" > "Music" menu at "System settings" > "Details". I know that is posible to manually set every audio format to open with it. But is there a way to make it appear on the menu at System Settings…
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Get gmusicbrowser to play .m4a music files?

What plugins do I need to install to get gmusicbrowser to play .m4a files? I already installed gstreamer ugly, bad, good (what's up with those names??). Do I need anything else? gmusicbrowser keeps complaining that gstreamer is missing a plugin…
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How do I make gmusicbrowser select the USB headphones as the default output?

To be clear, I'm happy that it doesn't when my cron job alarm clock goes off and the headphones have been pushed off my head when I went to sleep streaming audio from youtube, but it is inconsistent. How can I fix it? Edit for clarity: It's not…
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How to enable gmusicbrowser's plugin Gnome mmkeys in Xubuntu?

Gnome mmkeys is a plugin for gmusicbrowser which allows gmusicbrowser to respond to multimedia keys on the keyboard (play, pause, etc.). I tried to enable it via the Plugins tab in the Settings window of gmusic broser, but I get the following…
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gmusicbrowser doesn't start?

gmusicbrowser doesn't start. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 64bits. In the terminal, I get the following error: $ gmusicbrowser print() on closed filehandle $fifofh at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 328. GStreamer::Interfaces perl module not found ->…
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Flac player stops when other sounds play

I have a question about my music player in Ubuntu 14.04 I'm using gmusicbrowser 1.1.14 with a flac plug-in to play flac (flac123 0.0.11). It doesn't matter which song I play, they all have the same problem. The song is playing correct, but every…
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Weird Characters in gmusicbrowser Xubuntu 13.10

one problem. When the shimmer desktop theme in gmusicbrowser in Xubuntu 13.10, i have weird characters like the letter A acting as separators between artist, year and album. Any idea what could i do about it to make it look normal?
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Convert several .FLAC albums to .MP3 from gmusicbrowser

I have my large FLAC library separated by folder, each album, and all FLAC perfecty tagged, etc I want to convert one or more albums to mp3, but from the gmusicbrowser itself. AFAIK there is no option for that, only a "execute custom command on…
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Why are some apps like GMusicBrowser and LightLocker in Japanese instead of my computer's Spanish in Xubuntu?

I have a problem with some Xubuntu apps like GMusicBrowser in which they appear all in Japanese and I don't know how to fix it to show them up in native Spanish. Could somebody help me in that?
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Gmusicbrowser does not let me bind Fn key

Im trying to bind the play/pause button to Fn+Down but it only lets me put down
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How to create a splash screen in perl and GTK3 for a flatpack program?

I just created (and published at https://www.pling.com/p/2230712/) a theme for the excellent open source audio player gmusicbrowser, and now, since it takes 6~7 seconds to load, I would like to complete my work with a splash screen, but I am not a…
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gmusicbrowser -cmd ShowHide doesn't open on top of windows when using a custom shortcut

When I run gmusicbrowser -cmd ShowHide from the terminal gmusicbrowser opens on top of all windows. When I run it from a custom shortcut, it opens under windows. Fundamentally I would like to have gmusicbrowser display in front of all other windows…
Jamie Hutber
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