i Would like to organize by artist and albums and create playlist… Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 16, 2022, at 10:27 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > > What do you mean when you say "like iTunes?" Although I know some of what it > is supposed to be able to do, I never used it, so I'm not sure what > functionality you need. Are you trying to download music, to organize it or > to play it? The best place to buy downloadable music now is probably Amazon, > as unless I'm missing a site where I can buy flac or wav files from my > favorite artists, Amazon has the best selection of mp3 files available for > purchase. As for organizing music, I have seen many library style databases > integrated into all kinds of player software that comes and goes, but nothing > beats the good old filesystem. Files are usually already named according to > either Artist - Title, Track# - Artist - Title or Track# - title, and those > files are either stored inside the main music folder or in a folder named as > Artist - Album, or at least this is what works best for me. Specifically, if > I have a full album, I store the songs in Artist - Album/Track# - Title > format. If I don't have a full album, say I have just 3 songs by an artist, > most of the time from different albums, I just store them as Artist - Title > in my Music folder, which incidentally is added to my home folder > automatically by xdg-dirs I believe it's called, which is a tool integrated > into most desktops that just kinda sets up the home folder with some > reasonably logical locations for things. Many music players exist, but I tend > to look for mpris-compatible players, as I have set up shortcut keys that > call playerctl to perform various functions. Some of the best music players > include Audacious, which used to have its own hotkey shortcut functionality > but seems to lack the feature in a screen reader accessible way now, > Clementine, which does have shortcut key functionality and can minimize to > the notification tray, Strawberry, which is a fork of Clementine, but has > some additional preference options, Deadbeef, which is somewhat like > Audacious in its functionality, and then there's good old vlc, which has its > issues playing files gaplessly, but plays audio and video files in many > formats, and mpv, which plays even more audio and video files and can even > play them straight off Youtube and other websites. If you're specifically > looking for library database and player functionality in a single package, > Clementine, Strawberry and Rhythmbox can all do this, although I don't use > that specific functionality, so I couldn't tell you how well it works. Many > of the players I mention here will also allow you to fix their tags if > they're not correct for some reason, or write them if they don't already > exist as well. If there is some other functionality you needed that I'm not > aware of, feel free to let me know. Hope this helps. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
