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Is there a program that edits audio files to have the same volume?

When listening to music in Banshee or any other player, I always have to up the volume for certain songs and turn it back down for others because they don't have the same replay gain.

• Is there an add-on which could normalise my songs in Banshee?
• Or is there a program which could do this to whole of my music library?

I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 in case that has any effect on the answers.

Thanks in advance.

Can I safely remove Banshee?

I prefer Clementine as my music player. I'd like to completely remove the default player (currently Banshee) and replace it with Clementine.

Can I do this, without breaking Ubuntu?

How do I quit Banshee?

When I press the X button in Banshee's title bar, it hides, but the music continues playing. However, from time to time I need to quit Banshee completely. How can I do that? (pressing "close" from the menu bar doesn't help)

I know I could go for running killall banshee but that's not an elegant solution. Any other ideas? Is it even possible?

EDIT: After first few answers I noticed I must underline, I do not want to stop the music playback, I do not want to hide Banshee's window. What I want is to quit Banshee totally, in order f.e. to start JACK audio server (and for example restart Banshee).

Why was Banshee chosen to be the default for 11.04?

What are the reasons for Banshee replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 11.04?

I don't want your opinion on which is best nor why. I want to know what the reasoning was behind the decision.

Can I use banshee from the command line?

I love Banshee media player in general, and I already have an important library of music, which I've spent a lot of time organizing (labeling, correcting, etc).

I also use the command line a lot, so I wonder if there is a way I can control banshee from the command line. As in:

• Next, Prev, Stop, Play, etc
• In anyway query the Banshee database as if using the search box in the GUI

I was akin to program it myself if there isn't, but that would be another question :)

How to import a radio station list from Rhythmbox to Banshee?

I want to try Banshee on Lucid and have to import all my radio station lists, so I wonder how to do this automatically instead of importing each one by hand.

I have several radio stations in Rhythmbox and the process would be very tiresome.

Thanks

Can't change global default video player to VLC?

I have already set VLC for default video player but still vids, movies, etc. open in Banshee and I cannot find anyway to turn that off. So far I have to manually tell each vid to open with VLC and to 'ignore' Banshee. Does anyone know any workarounds or hacks?? I think a plugin would be best ;)

May the Force be with you!!

How to really-really rescan media library in Banshee?

I made a few edits to track information in Banshee's File System Queue playlist, and it appeared nice. However, the Artists box (in the middle of the screen) contained old information (as it was before my edit).

I thought this would get fixed if I select Tools -> Rescan Media Library. I got a brief message with '100% complete' status, however list of artists (which was modified and changed) remains as it was.

I have no clue what this means and how to really re-scan the library.

How to download songs from Amazon's Cloud Player?

Using the latest Banshee (1.9.6) and the Amazon MP3 extension, I just bought an album, and it was copied to my Amazon Cloud Drive/Player. How do I download this to my computer? Banshee's Amazon MP3 does not seem to open the Amazon Cloud Player pages, and the Amazon Cloud Player website keeps asking me to use their downloader program (which didn't work, perhaps too old).

On a side note, I can download the files individually from the Amazon Cloud Drive website, but that is not an ideal solution. I want to click a few buttons, download the whole album at once, and import it into Banshee (like it used to, before the Cloud Drive stuff).

How do I make Banshee re-scan for cover art?

I restored my banshee db as per this question. My music and listening history shows up as expected, but the cover art is missing, and Banshee won't scan for it. "Rescan music library" doesn't check for cover art. Neither does disabling/re-enabling the cover art plugin. I can't find an option to do this--is it possible?

Where does Banshee store playlists and podcast metadata?

I'm in the process of doing a system re-install. I've seen: Best way to backup all settings, list of installed packages, tweaks, etc?

There are a couple of specific apps I want to double check that all their data/metadata will be saved if I copy my home directory (with hidden directories). So I wanted to ask where Banshee stores the metadata about podcast subscriptions, old vs new podcasts, and playlists, etc.

Disable notifications on track change?

I've not long been running Banshee on 11.04, and my main problem with it is that when changing tracks a notification is displayed, this is all fine when using hardware buttons on my laptop to change track, but when using the sound menu the notifications overlap my sound menu.

So I'm just wondering if there is any way to disable notifications from showing, like there is in Rhythmbox?

Thanks,

Does RhythmBox have any command line interface or method of interprocess communication?

I'd really like to communicate with rhythmbox with a web server so I can remotely change the music playing from my smartphone. Is there a command-line interface for rhythmbox to do things like the following (fictional) commands?

rhythmbox next
rhythmbox shuffle=false
rhythmbox change album='Dark Side of the Moon' artist='Pink Floyd' song='Time' 

Is there a socket or message-passing interface instead? Are there any substitute programs that could get the job done, like Banshee, or some other type of server?

How can I export all the mp3s from a playlist in Banshee?

I have all my music, unsorted in /home/blah/Music/. It's in random folders, which doesn't matter for me though since Banshee takes care of everything. I have a large playlist containing a good 2/3 of my music. How can I copy all the mp3 files listed in the playlist into a new folder?

Note: I am not trying to export a playlist, but copy the mp3s listed in the playlist.

Ripped mp3 files show wrong track lengths

I have seen this problem both when using Banshee and Sound Juicer. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Thinkpad 14". I'm not sure about the make of my internal CD drive, but would be glad to provide you with that information if someone tells me how to. I have not had access to an external CD drive so that I could tell if the problem is my internal CD drive.

Anyway, the problem: The mp3 files I have ripped show wrong lengths. For example when I ripped Peacebone by Animal Collective, which's length is 5:13, the file was 25 minutes long, according to my phone and banshee. The players skip to the next song before playing the whole 25 minutes. However, I'm not comfortable not knowing if I'm listening to the whole thing or the real length of the song.

This far the problem has disappeared on a second rip, although the file lengths are still occasionally a few seconds longer than they're supposed to be.