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Questions tagged [mp3-player]

An MP3 player is a device that plays music. Some more advanced MP3 players can play videos and pictures, show ebooks and listen to the radio. Some expensive MP3 player, such as Apple's iPod touch and Microsoft's Zune HD, can browse the Internet, run applications, and take pictures. MP3 players range in price from five dollars to three hundred dollars.

Picture of an MP3 player

Some popular MP3 player manufacturers are SanDisk, Apple, Microsoft, Visual Land, Polaroid, Sony, and many others. There have been some efforts to replace the firmware on popular MP3 players to increase usability and functionality. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player.

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Command line audio players

What are popular audio players for the command line? How to play a single sound file? Are there command line players that also index the music library like Banshee, Exaile, etc.?
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How can I change the default music player?

Using Ubuntu 11.10. I have MP3 files. When I double-click an MP3 file, I would like VLC to open (not Banshee). How can I do this?
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MP3 player with good podcast support?

By good podcast support I mean: resuming the audio files where I switched off the player or skipped the file. Synching with my podcatcher (currently I'm using Miro but I could change): deleting episodes, I listened to and copy new ones from my HDD…
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What application do the same what shazam or soundhound does on android?

What application do the same what shazam or soundhound does on android? Shazam for windows and MacOs, I don't like wine, plus it is commercial. You can verify about 2-5 songs and must pay to continue. SoundHound - closely mobile Os's app. What kind…
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Is there a player that merge the end of a music with the beginning of the next?

In Winamp 3 for Windows, there's a feature that the last 3 seconds of the music is merged with the first 3 seconds of the next music, so there's no "empty space" between the musics. Is there a way to do this with Rhythmbox? Or is there any player…
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Music/podcast player with speed control?

I am looking for a MP3/Ogg player that has the ability to playback a file at a higher speed, preferably without affecting the pitch. What players allow that? The only one I know right now is alsaplayer, but it can't do it without affecting the pitch…
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Exaile doesn't add songs to the queue

I've just upgraded from 10.04 and I have Exaile as my main player. Anyway, when I double click a .mp3 file it opens okay. But in 10.04, if I clicked another, Exaile would push it in my playlist and that file would be the next to play. However, now…
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How can I make Banshee re-encode FLAC to Ogg Vorbis when copying to my player?

I have most of my music in FLAC on my large storage device, and would like to automatically re-encode it in Ogg Vorbis when copying it to my portable audio player (Sansa Fuze v2). I have set my Fuze to MTP mode and told Banshee to encode to Ogg…
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Can I sync a Rhythmbox playlist with an mp3 player?

I can't sync a Rhythmbox playlist onto my mp3 player, how can I do this?
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How do I get a Dane-Elec mp3/mp4 player working?

My MP3/MP4 does not plug-in and play and therefore I can not transfer any file to the MP3/MP4 dane-elec music my touch or only dane-elec with 8 gb in memory and perhapses model zt1 with radio,..and microsdhc card slot following the above link the…
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How can I convert videos for my Sansa Fuze?

The Sansa Fuze mp3 player can only play videos in its own special format, how can I convert videos to this format using Ubuntu?
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Sort files on the filesystem

My MP3 player plays files in the order they have been placed onto the filesystem. Now it seems to Nautilus copies files in some random order, so when listening to an audio book or something I get all the chapters in random order, wich isn't so great…
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How to make Banshee copy files to my Creative Zen MP3 player as MP3 instead of FLAC

When I try to use Banshee to copy files from to my Creative Zen Stone MP3 player it keeps converting the files from MP3 to FLAC. It detects the player fine and copies files to it fine. Syncs to a playlist fine. But the only option I have under…
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Suggest mp3 player having minimum requirements

Please suggest an mp3 player which does the following things apart from play, pause, next & previous. I'm not looking for all the equalizer & stuff. Just playing & option to enqueue at one click is good for me. Enqueue on double click/Enter or…
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Sony Walkman NWZ-B173F 12.04 support

I bought this groovy little device for my daughters only to discover they didn't play nice with Ubuntu. My main desktop runs 12.04 64bit. My secondary desktop runs 13.04. Didn't get recognised on either. It appeared in dmesg and syslog and the…
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