neves's questions

Banshee is a nice music player and CD ripper. In Edit → Preferences → Source Specific → Source: Music I can configure the folder hierarchy. This folder hierarchy will be used when I rip a new CD.

My pet peeve is that I just have these limited options. I've been ripping my CDs for 20 years as %Year% - %Album Artist%. This way, when I list a directory, the artists albums are chronologically ordered, allowing me to see their career evolution.

Is there a hidden setting that allow me to create new options for Banshee Folder Hierarchy?

When I login from the terminal (not XOrg), my computer starts with the weird shell featured in the image below.

If I click in the Unity terminal icon, It opens with my dear bash shell.

I don't remember when I installed it, but I want to remove it and don't know the package name. Can anyone help me?

This shell has 2 problems:

1. It is very slow to start. When I log into the terminal I usually want to solve a problem quickly.
2. All the terminals log me into the same shell. Even if I do Alt-F2 and login, I will fall into the same session.

Lame doesn't have a command line option to record the ID3 metadata of the "Album Artist". How to do it?

When I rip a CD to mp3 using Sound Juicer I get just broken mp3 files. I like to rip VBR files, they look fine, but the  reported bitrate is always 32kbit/s. See:

mp3check -a 01.\ Anita.mp3 
01. Anita.mp3:
anomaly: bitrate  32 kbit/s
anomaly: no crc

I expect that the reported were the average bit rate value. When I put these files in a mp3 player, the reported track duration time is always wrong. The player expects a hour long music file when it has just a couple of minutes.

It used to work fine, but it silently broke in an update some time ago. Unfortunately I can not find how to correctly configure it. My Ubuntu is version 14.04.1.

I’ve tried these approaches:

1. Run gconf-editor, go to apps → sound-juicer, and put the value described here in the pipeline attribute. I’ve deleted this attribute now.
2. I’ve tried to run the application gnome-audio-profiles-properties as described in this question.
3. Tried to configure .psr files:
4. Multiple other frustrated options that I don’t remember

Can someone please help me to escape from the Gnome mp3 configuration from Hell?

There is a bug open for easy configuration.

I have a NVida card and binary drivers. I have my monitor connected at the vga port and the TV at the HDMI port. When the computer boots, the grub menu and sometimes the login screen goes to the TV (HDMI output).

How do I select the default video output to be the VGA port?

Edit: The Dell logo also goes to the HDMI port, also the Grub menu and boot messages. Just when the login screen appears, it uses my configured main display. I've recently added the NVidia Card. Ubuntu was installed using an onboard Intel chipset.

I have a simple use case. I want o copy some music. I have an 8Gb pen drive and my Music folder where each album is a directory inside the artist name directory. I select some artists. I select a couple of albums and dragn'drop them. Select some more, and copy again. The file manager almost freezes.

The problem is that Ubuntu tries to copy them simultaneously, instead of just queueing them. This parallel writing is extremely slow.

Yes, I could ctrl select every one and do just one dragn'drop action, but my experience is that I'd make a wrong click and undo all my selection.

I didn't think that it would be a problem in 2013.

Every time my machine is stumbling, I run a top command and the compiz process is eating a lot of CPU. How can I configure it to consume the minimum of machine resources? I don't care for fancy graphics or effects. I have an integrated intel graphic card.

I don't know how to start debugging it, but when I play music using XBMC it sounds a lot better than when using Clementine. I know it is a little subjective, but although I love XBMC great features, Clementine has other qualities, like a better search.

First my setup: my computer has a s/pdif coaxial output which I connect to my old Pioneer receiver. The receiver connects to my pair of speakers.

I'm playing high quality MP3 files.

In Clementine -> Preferences -> General -> Playback I have configured:

• "Choose automatically" for the output plugin of GStreamer audio engine.
• Album replay gain is checked,
• Pre-amp is 0.0db.
• Apply compression to prevent clipping is checked.

XBMC has more configuration options:

• Audio ouput: Optical/Coax
• Speaker configuration: 2.0
• Boost volume level on downmix: checked
• Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver: checked
• DTS capable receiver: unchecked
• Audio ouput device: default
• Passthrough output device: iec958

I've changed XBMC configurations from the default. It was "analog audio". The quality improved.

Ubuntu audio settings doesn't give me many options.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, with default audio configuration.

How can I improve Clementine quality? References explaining what are all these options are welcome.

I thought it was a stupid question, but my preferred player, Amarok, doesn't have visualizations. RhythmBox also. Where can I find a Linux player with interesting visualizations?

My 5 years old boy want to hear his CD with the funny things of mommy's computer.