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Questions tagged [quodlibet]

Quod Libet is an audio player / manager for Linux, Windows and OS X. This tag is for questions that relate to its usage (on Ubuntu in particular).

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How to set Quodlibet as default music player?

I am interested in having Quodlibet show up in the "Default Applications" menu in System Settings > Details, how can I do this?
Severo Raz
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How to hide "quodlibet wants to inhibit shortcuts" message

Ever since upgrading to 17.10, whenever I click on the time elapsed bar in quodlibet (to manually change the current track playback time), I get a warning message that says "Quod Libet wants to inhibit shortcuts. You can restore shortcuts by…
pattivacek
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Can I add Quod Libet controls to the sound menu?

I recently installed the latest version of Quod Libet. However, unlike other music players (for example, Rhythmbox) it doesn't have play/pause/prev/next controls under the sound menu. How can I add them?
lofidevops
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Store Ratings in Quod Libet

I use Quod Libet as music library player. If I rate a song, the rating is successfully stored, but it seems at first only locally. Only if I edit some tags and save them, I get the rating stored in the ID3 Tag in the field POPM: $ mid3v2 test.mp3…
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Best way to add replay gain to m4a files?

I use (and love) QuodLibet as a my music player and it has a plugin that calculates replay gain values (album and track) and stores them in the files. However, it doesn't work for my m4a files...just my mp3 and flac. Any suggestions for a tool that…
Dave
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Mediamonkey ratings imported into Rhythmbox/Banshee/Quod Libet

I recently made a complete shift from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04. Everything went smoothly until I scanned my music files in some of the Ubuntu players... All of my ratings added in Windows, using Mediamonkey, were out-of-five-stars (some with a…
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Is there a music library player / manager that allows searching for strings in the whole path of music files, not just filenames or ID3 tags?

I organized my music, a long time ago, in folders. Searching for a folder's name, for instance "Girlfriend's albums" in Mediamonkey in Windows would show all mp3 files within that folder, and, crucially, within subfolders as well, as long as the…
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How can one control Quodlibet through media keys?

The last time I used Quodlibet I found out that one had to enable 2 plugins for the media keys to work with it. One had something to do with DBus and the other one with an MPRIS thing. I enabled both plugins now that I have begun to use it again,…
Severo Raz
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Media player that can be told what tracks I want to skip

Some tracks in my music library only consist of introductory talk and things like that I usually want to skip. Is there a media player that can be taught to not play certain tracks, either using ID3 tags or a blacklist? I looked at Rhythmbox,…
Thomas W.
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Quodlibet couldn't connect to a device backend

I'm new to Quod Libet but I want to like it. Every other music app has disappointed me in some way and so far QL disappoints me least. It's not perfect but I'm trying very hard to make it work. However, I can't get my devices to be recognized…
pattivacek
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Why is some software not appearing in the "available software" options?

I have installed and used some applications such as Quod Libet and others on Ubuntu 12.04. When I go under settings to tell Ubuntu which software to use when opening specific files, Quod Libet and others are not in the selection. Even when I click…
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caffeine works but not for quodlibet

I have caffeine installed, and it works just fine in gnome-classic (no effects) for preventing sleeping for most processes. For example "vlc", "mplayer", and "totem" all work. I cannot get it to recognize quodlibet. It used to work in Lucid, but…
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Quod Libet player tray not working

Tray icon (after installing plugin to have it) doesnt work at all. Right/left click don't have any result at all. I don't really need the controllers, just opening the player will be enough. Using Kubuntu 16.04.01
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Ubuntu 22.04 does not invoke Quodlibet

Ubuntu 21.10 could invoke Quodlibet. Ubuntu 22.04 cannot. If anybody knows how to invoke (ie start) Quodlibet on Ubuntu 22.04, please provide instructions. Thanks!
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18.04 Dock Context Menus?

In the previous versions of Ubuntu, items on the dock had context menus that were per-application rather than dock related. For instance, the quod libet context menu offered play, pause, stop etc. Now I get a context menu that's related to the…
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