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Kodi 21.0 Open-Source Entertainment Hub Released

08.04.2024

After a year of development, the award-winning Kodi cross-platform, media center software is now available with many new additions and improvements.

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Figure 1: By default, Lyrics-in-terminal attaches itself to the Spotify client playback.

Automatically view song lyrics as you listen

LINUX VOICE: Tutorial – Lyrics-in-terminal

Whether you listen to music on Spotify or a classic audio player like Rhythmbox, Lollypop, or Audacious, a tool named Lyrics-in-terminal will let you read the lyrics for the track you are currently playing.

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Figure 1: The ChordPro text editor with song lyrics and chords.

Play along with ChordPro

LINUX VOICE: A Troubadour's Life

If you play a stringed instrument and want to record lyrics and chord changes, ChordPro gives you an elegant and convenient approach to getting it all on paper.

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Figure 1: Amarok’s context pane in the center of the window is awkward when creating playlists.

Clementine

A New Music Player in Debian 10

10.12.2019

Transitioning from Amarok to Clementine in Debian 10 is relatively painless, thanks to Clementine's straightforward interface and improved features.

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© Lead Image Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash

Exploring the Sayonara audio player

REVIEWS: Easy Listening

For a simple audio player, check out Sayonara Player, a great choice for enjoying all your favorite music, Internet radio, and podcasts.

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Freeing Your Music Player with Rock

IN-DEPTH: Musical Freedom

Turn your music player into open hardware with Rockbox's free firmware.

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Figure 1: The Rockbox Utility simplifies installing the free firmware.

Freeing Your Music Player with Rockbox

Musical Freedom

07.08.2018

Turn your music player into open hardware with Rockbox’s free firmware.

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Ogg Vorbis utilities

IN-DEPTH: Command Line – Ogg Vorbis

With the addition of its supporting utilities, Ogg Vorbis competes with other free audio formats.

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Figure 1: The MPD server configuration takes place in a single file.

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LINUX VOICE: MPD and Cantata

The MPD server helps you manage your music collection flexibly and remotely and integrates external content.

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Figure 1: With a variety of exercises, playful interactions, and motivating evaluations, Nootka helps guitarists learn classical notation.

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LINUX VOICE: String Theory – Fast guitar training for classical music

With Nootka and your guitar, you can learn to recognize musical notes in classical notation and train for precision and speed.

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