CoverGloobus - an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop - quietly released version 1.6 at the beginning of this month.
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Organize and listen to your music with Aqualung
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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.
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Tryad: Making Music The Open Source Way
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Free and Open Source software has been attributed to many things, such as applications, operating systems, books, and even beer. How would music be if it was developed by following the open source methodology?
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Stream music wirelessely using PulseAudio server
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The new version of PulseAudio has some pretty neat new features built in, one of the greatest features is support for Apple AirTunes, which is a protocol that allows you to stream audio to remote devices over a network. Using Pulseaudio server i was able to stream music wirelessly to my laptop from my Desktop.
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Goggles Music Manager For Linux
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Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. Basically, it's a simple music player that does it's job and works really fast.
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Ubuntu One Music Store: A Real Business?
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During the Ubuntu 9.10 launch a few weeks ago, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth hinted that Ubuntu may ultimately gain music and entertainment store capabilities - similar to offerings from Apple (iTunes) and Amazon.com. Fast forward to the present, and Canonical appears to be preparing the Ubuntu One Music Store. Here's why.
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Cuberok: Multi-Platform Audio Player - Amarok 1.4 Style (Qt Based)
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Cuberok is a music player and collection manager which resembles a lot to the very popular Amarok 1.4. It is based on Qt4 and has a lightweight interface, music collection support and many features, e.g. music autorating and Last.FM scrobbler.
Cuberok works on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX but for now I have only tested it in Linux (Ubuntu).
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Ripping CDs with FLAC - Best Compression Settings
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As storage space becomes cheaper, there's a growing trend to save digital music files in a lossless format. Such lossless formats provide an exact replication of the audio quality found in the original content, usually on CD. The resulting files are also much larger, when compared to MP3 or AAC at 128kbps or 256kpbs.
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Zeya: Bring your music anywhere (HTMLv5-based music server) Version 0.2
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Zeya is a streaming music server that brings your music to any computer with a web browser. It reads your music library, lets you browse your files, and streams them on demand.
The client runs entirely in the browser using the HTML 5 draft standard technologies— no Flash needed! No Silverlight, no applets, no plugins, no external players.
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CC on the Free Music Archive
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"It has been just over four months since the Free Music Archive launched as a destination for high-quality, freely licensed music [...] Today we are ecstatic to announce that CC has joined the FMA’s curatorial ranks! ..."
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Organise your music with Picard
http://www.tuxradar.com –
Organising your digital music collection can be a Herculean effort. Yet when you have several gigabytes of tracks to sift through, your only chance of finding what you want to hear is if your music files are properly tagged.
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Pyjama for Linux: Listen to Free Music
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"Python Jamendo Audio" or Pyjama is a python / GTK audio streaming application, which is thought to bring the free Jamendo - music on your PC. You can browse through artists and albums, mark your favorite songs and create playlists.
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Why open source needs the RIAA to lose
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THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (FSF) has been one of the surprise backers of people who the RIAA thinks should pay massive fines for sharing copyrighted music files online.
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Pirate Bay launches Distributed Donation of Dollars attack on music industry
http://www.daniweb.com –
Now this is interesting: with the arrival of a demand for some $4.5 million in damages, one of the founders of Pirate Bay has come up with an innovate method of paying it and attacking the music industry at the same time.
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The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
http://torrentfreak.com –
"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology..."
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