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Is there anyway assign custom keyboard shorcut for noise music player?

Using the 'Keyboard' plug in System Settings it's possible to do this. System Settings --> Keyboard --> Shortcuts --> Media gives options to change the shortcuts for playing/pausing and other media ...
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How is Music player meant to be closed?

By default, Music doesn't stop playing just because the window is closed. Very seldom will one actually want or need the window while Music is playing. In this way, Music is a bit of a service. There ...
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How to shuffle the music in the default music player?

In the bottom left corner of Music, you will see an icon that looks like two straight arrows on top of each other. If you click that icon, the arrows will cross. Your music will now be shuffled.
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How is Music player meant to be closed?

Well... You can flip that setting off. Or when it's on, you just stop it from the music/sound indicator on the top bar. That should work in theory and that's what I do but maybe someone else has a ...
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Music stops/pauses when the screen locks

I've had the same problem and found a workaround while going through the comment on the bug reports: Add your user account to the audio group by running sudo adduser user audio with user being your ...
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How re-import music in Noise?

You can delete the entire database in ~/.local/share/noise/ Noise will then re-scan everything. This is not an ideal solution, an option would be great.
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How re-import music in Noise?

I finally managed to figure it out. For anyone else who has been having trouble importing music into Noise, follow these steps: Open Noise settings Preferences Music Folder Location: (Default: Music) ...
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How to make Noise play what I want?

I know this is an old question, but I thought I'd answer in case someone found it useful. For just one album, the first option is always the "View in columns" mode. Select the album from the third ...
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How to make Noise play what I want?

If you select an artist or album in the column view, and start playing music from there, playback does remain confined to the list you see in the view. Unfortunately, it looks like confining playback ...
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How can I play .wma files with Music?

Try sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras This should solve any missing codecs problem.
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How can I get Noise and Photos to recognize my phone?

Install mtpfs (If not installed), this will probably solve the issue. To install open terminal and run: sudo apt install mtpfs
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Music app crash

I found the workaround here: https://github.com/elementary/music/issues/391 It crashes on startup if an NTFS partition is mounted. I unmounted all network shares and it doesn't crash on startup for ...
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Why won't the Music App launch?

I found the workaround here: https://github.com/elementary/music/issues/391 It crashes on startup if an NTFS partition is mounted. I unmounted all network shares and it doesn't crash on startup for ...
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Editing MP3 Tag in Music

Apparently the problem has been reported on the application's github and is not resolved yet Issue 156 Issue 451 I propose to use another TAG MP3 editor like Easy Tag for the moment and follow this ...
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Noise playback control from terminal

Looking in the code of Noise/Music, there is no functionality to handle command line inputs beside of the filename as an argument.
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Duplicate songs in Noise and Lollypop

Answered on https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/7jmf2n/duplicate_songs_in_noise_and_lollypop/dskadbd/ I noticed this happening when I import music with the "Import to Library…" menu item ...
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Noise music player font problem

Looks like a mp3 tag coding issue in some files, you should ensure that all your mp3 tags are in utf-8.
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Delete albums/files in Noise

There is a bug that could be related to this issue... If you are stuck though do this: As an instant fix, close the app, then you can delete the entire database in ~/.local/share/noise/ rm ~/.local/...
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Sync Iphone IOS 10.1

To sync music between a computer and an iPhone, iTunes is required. Unfortunately, Apple has not made iTunes for linux. However, maybe you can try something like this: https://appdb.winehq.org/...
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Sync Iphone IOS 10.1

Its not supported. With a jailbroken iPhone and a 20 dollar tweak it can be done with Rhythmbox. I doubt the tweak works out. 10.1 yet, and I haven't kept up with the current state of jailbreak. I'd ...
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Regex used by Music Application

In the search field of noise you can search either by artist, album or title (or any other field). However, I there is no support for regular expressions. I hope this answers you question.
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Covergloobus On Loki

i use covergloobus in loki and work fine i install it from this deb files http://covergloobus.deviantart.com/ i hope to help you...
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Noise very slow to import

That bug/feature request is the way to go. In fact, one exists, so please subscribe to the bug report here for when the devs need help testing solutions. If you want to give the open source devs some ...
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Track order for m4a files

I found a way to fix it! You only need to edit the informations of all your m4a songs and delete the year and the compositors! It's a nuisance, but it worked for me... hope it helps!
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Import Audio CD is not working

cd /home/username/.local/share/noise/ and delete the Database(*.db) in this folder. After this step you can import your mp3 files again.
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Is there a way to make Noise automatically update music library?

Theoretically, this should be regulated by one of the options in the settings dialogue, as I understand it. It has not been working for me, however and I have to re-scan the library manually every ...
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Music stops/pauses when the screen locks

It's not just Noise (the music app) but YouTube videos, Spotify, and all system audio stops/pauses when the screen locks (or machine suspends). The easiest solution is to change the settings for when ...
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Is it possible to continue playing music even system gets locked for inactivity?

What worked for me was adding my user into the 'audio' group. This isn't necessarily a good idea for the reasons listed here, but for a single user system shouldn't be problematic. sudo usermod -a -...
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