Poor-Mans-Spotify aka PMS

This is a rather nice online music player which can play one tune at a time or download one tune. It has few requirements and can -

  • Search and stream music
  • Download music
  • Works with Python 2.7 and 3
  • Works with Windows, Linux and Mac osx 10.9
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Troubleshooting MPD

For several days now my MPD has been very choppy, dropping connections and having great difficulty in starting it again. So I finally decided to look at ‘mpd.log’ which is in my ‘/home/boudiccas/.mpd/mpd.log’. And in it I found this -

Nov 09 17:56 : output: Failed ...
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GreatLittleRadioPlayer - streaming radio!

I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen! But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...

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Pogo

Probably the best music player I know of is pogo, written for Ubuntu but as its a python script it plays very nicely on this Debian box. It can be found at https://launchpad.net/pogo and describes itself as ‘Probably the simplest and fastest audio player for Linux. Pogo ...

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Renaming to mp3

A part of my plan is to backup all my mp3’s to dvd, and then maybe even delete some of them such that I can play them from the dvd I’ve been busy converting from flac to mp3 and wav to mp3.

flac to mp3

First, flac to ...

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