I just started using GMB recently. I love the customization options for layouts, but it will take a while to learn how to change or create layouts myself.
I guess the first step is to copy an existing layout to my user folder, right?
My current Layout = with browser & queue
I like this layout, but I would like to try a few changes:
1. add a horizontal volume scroll to the right of the seek bar (I think you call it the TimeSlider)
2. change the fonts and colors everywhere. I want to use a slightly larger font and make it less gray (more white).
I don't want to make too many changes to start with. I just want to start learning how layouts work.
Can anyone help me with tips for making some of those changes?
Thanks.
I guess the first step is to copy an existing layout to my user folder, right?
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cp /usr/share/gmusicbrowser/layouts/main.layout ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/layoutsMy current Layout = with browser & queue
I like this layout, but I would like to try a few changes:
1. add a horizontal volume scroll to the right of the seek bar (I think you call it the TimeSlider)
2. change the fonts and colors everywhere. I want to use a slightly larger font and make it less gray (more white).
I don't want to make too many changes to start with. I just want to start learning how layouts work.
Can anyone help me with tips for making some of those changes?
Thanks.
I want to say thanks to Quentin for continuing to work on this great music player. I spent the last few days trying every different Linux music player that looked promising. After a lot of testing, the only new apps I kept installed are gmusicbrowser and quod libet. I've been using deadbeef, and it is a great player. I'm keeping it installed too. But I anticipate that gmusicbrowser is going to become my main music app now. I'm very impressed with it so far.
I particularly like the ease with which I can set or change ratings on tracks and the straight-forward way GMB saves ratings metadata compared to many other players.
Other features I like are regular expression searches, support for multiple genres for a song (because I have a lot of music that doesn't fit neatly into the usual genres), the customizable window layouts (which I plan to explore in great detail as I learn more), and the ongoing development by Quentin.
I am also very interested in options to read/write custom fields from/to tags.
Another thing I like about GMB is its support for large music libraries. I currently have 61629 flac files and another 13283 MP3 files and a few .wav, .ogg, and other formats. I estimate my total music library could be over 80,000 songs because some of my flac files are not split into tracks. I guess GMB might tell me the exact size once I load up my entire library.
The only suggestion I have at this moment is in regard to ratings metadata. My own ratings are a very important part of how I manage my music. It would be really awesome if GMB could offer users some advanced and configurable options for saving ratings metadata.
For example, I have been thinking that it might be helpful to save my song ratings into multiple metadata fields simultaneously. For example, on flac files, GMB uses FMPS_RATING, but deadbeef uses "RATING". I believe I can solve a lot of compatibility issues if I save my ratings to multiple fields.
One concern I currently have is that when GMB saves a rating to FMPS_RATING, it deletes the data that was already saved in the RATING field of the file's metadata. I'd probably like an option to not do this.
Then there is the issue of rating scales. As you know, different apps use anything from 0 to 5, 0 to 100, 0 to 255 or even 0.0 to 1.0 (like GMB). (However, for FLAC / Vorbis, the two dominant informal standards seem to be "0.0 to 1.0" and "0 to 100".)
I might like to be able to:
1. define more than one rating field to be used simultaneously (I am mainly focused on flac files. I don't know if this will be needed for others such as MP3 where POPM seems to be universal.)
2. define my rating scale, and potentially use a different scale for the different rating fields I define. For example, I could use 0.0 to 1.0 in FMPS_RATING (as GMB does by default) while also saving 0 to 100 in RATING.
This is one post I looked in for reference on ratings:
Songs ratings and playcount as POPM fields · Issue #1143 · DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
I think it would be great if GMB becomes the one music player that can satisfy anyone's needs for ratings metadata configs :)
This seems to fit the overall philosophy of GMB to be highly configurable. In a similar way to how a user can choose Layout > Make it look like > [pick one], maybe you could do something similar for ratings. For example, "Ratings > Save metadata like > [choose one].
However,for me it does not need to be that sophisticated. I'd be happy to write some values into the GMB config file to meet my needs.
What are your thoughts about this rating metadata idea?
Thanks again for your work on GMB! I'm happy to be a user now.
I particularly like the ease with which I can set or change ratings on tracks and the straight-forward way GMB saves ratings metadata compared to many other players.
Other features I like are regular expression searches, support for multiple genres for a song (because I have a lot of music that doesn't fit neatly into the usual genres), the customizable window layouts (which I plan to explore in great detail as I learn more), and the ongoing development by Quentin.
I am also very interested in options to read/write custom fields from/to tags.
Another thing I like about GMB is its support for large music libraries. I currently have 61629 flac files and another 13283 MP3 files and a few .wav, .ogg, and other formats. I estimate my total music library could be over 80,000 songs because some of my flac files are not split into tracks. I guess GMB might tell me the exact size once I load up my entire library.
The only suggestion I have at this moment is in regard to ratings metadata. My own ratings are a very important part of how I manage my music. It would be really awesome if GMB could offer users some advanced and configurable options for saving ratings metadata.
For example, I have been thinking that it might be helpful to save my song ratings into multiple metadata fields simultaneously. For example, on flac files, GMB uses FMPS_RATING, but deadbeef uses "RATING". I believe I can solve a lot of compatibility issues if I save my ratings to multiple fields.
One concern I currently have is that when GMB saves a rating to FMPS_RATING, it deletes the data that was already saved in the RATING field of the file's metadata. I'd probably like an option to not do this.
Then there is the issue of rating scales. As you know, different apps use anything from 0 to 5, 0 to 100, 0 to 255 or even 0.0 to 1.0 (like GMB). (However, for FLAC / Vorbis, the two dominant informal standards seem to be "0.0 to 1.0" and "0 to 100".)
I might like to be able to:
1. define more than one rating field to be used simultaneously (I am mainly focused on flac files. I don't know if this will be needed for others such as MP3 where POPM seems to be universal.)
2. define my rating scale, and potentially use a different scale for the different rating fields I define. For example, I could use 0.0 to 1.0 in FMPS_RATING (as GMB does by default) while also saving 0 to 100 in RATING.
This is one post I looked in for reference on ratings:
Songs ratings and playcount as POPM fields · Issue #1143 · DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
I think it would be great if GMB becomes the one music player that can satisfy anyone's needs for ratings metadata configs :)
This seems to fit the overall philosophy of GMB to be highly configurable. In a similar way to how a user can choose Layout > Make it look like > [pick one], maybe you could do something similar for ratings. For example, "Ratings > Save metadata like > [choose one].
However,for me it does not need to be that sophisticated. I'd be happy to write some values into the GMB config file to meet my needs.
What are your thoughts about this rating metadata idea?
Thanks again for your work on GMB! I'm happy to be a user now.
Thanks for the response, it all now works great. THANKS A LOT :)))
You need to configure your desktop/window manager to use the command "gmusicbrowser -cmd PrevSongInPlaylist" when pressing the key.
Hi everyone, I have been using GMB for over a month now and definitely love it but there is a small detail have not been able to fix.
Anytime the media key for previous song is used it goes to the *previous played song* not the *previous song on playlist,* is there a way to change the action of media keys in GMB??
I already tried making a custom profile for my keyboard and mapping the media keys to other characters so they can be replaced as shortcuts in GMB setting but they partially work since it has to be focused on GMB window to activate.
Anytime the media key for previous song is used it goes to the *previous played song* not the *previous song on playlist,* is there a way to change the action of media keys in GMB??
I already tried making a custom profile for my keyboard and mapping the media keys to other characters so they can be replaced as shortcuts in GMB setting but they partially work since it has to be focused on GMB window to activate.
I recognized a strange behaviour when gmb chooses cover art for .dsf-files.
I know this files are kind of special but they get imported and play well - thanks for that feature!
All my audio files are stored on a NAS. I usually put a "front.jpg" and a "tray.jpg" in each album folder.
As I started to use rasperry pi's with runeaudio, mpd or runeaudio created additional "coverart.jpg" and "thumb.jpg".
After importing my 5600 .dsf-files into gmb some albums use the "front.jpg" but most use "thumb.jpg".
Looks like embed artwork is not used with .dsf-files at all.
For some albums I named the musicfolders like "artist - album CD1", "artist - album CD2". It happens that CD1 uses "front.jpg" while CD2 uses "thumb.jpg".
Kind of weird, isn't it?
There is no question here, just an observation.
I know this files are kind of special but they get imported and play well - thanks for that feature!
All my audio files are stored on a NAS. I usually put a "front.jpg" and a "tray.jpg" in each album folder.
As I started to use rasperry pi's with runeaudio, mpd or runeaudio created additional "coverart.jpg" and "thumb.jpg".
After importing my 5600 .dsf-files into gmb some albums use the "front.jpg" but most use "thumb.jpg".
Looks like embed artwork is not used with .dsf-files at all.
For some albums I named the musicfolders like "artist - album CD1", "artist - album CD2". It happens that CD1 uses "front.jpg" while CD2 uses "thumb.jpg".
Kind of weird, isn't it?
There is no question here, just an observation.
Pardon,
Je viens de trouver : simplement en utilisant la 1.1.99 qui est de plus une bonne amélioration.
Merci à Gmusicbrowser...
Je viens de trouver : simplement en utilisant la 1.1.99 qui est de plus une bonne amélioration.
Merci à Gmusicbrowser...
Bonjour,
Je n'arrive pas à installer Gmusicbrowser sur Debian 11... Il était dans les dépôts de Debian 10, mais il a disparu.
Merci de votre aide
Je n'arrive pas à installer Gmusicbrowser sur Debian 11... Il était dans les dépôts de Debian 10, mais il a disparu.
Merci de votre aide
For me this worked:
Einstellungen --> Felder --> Komponist aktivieren
afterwards mark some tracks --> right click --> Tags neu einlesen
Attention: I first tried to mark all tracks with missing composer/conductor and reread tags - all RAM was used then and the Computer stucked. Better not do it with 3000 tracks at once.
After installing gmb I enabled composer and conductor, restarted gmb and was surprised that gmb didn't recognize composser and conductor.
But now this fields fill up with importing new tracks - just perfect.
Einstellungen --> Felder --> Komponist aktivieren
afterwards mark some tracks --> right click --> Tags neu einlesen
Attention: I first tried to mark all tracks with missing composer/conductor and reread tags - all RAM was used then and the Computer stucked. Better not do it with 3000 tracks at once.
After installing gmb I enabled composer and conductor, restarted gmb and was surprised that gmb didn't recognize composser and conductor.
But now this fields fill up with importing new tracks - just perfect.
I don't know if this would be useful to anyone else, but sometimes I like to just leave my player running, for a couple reasons: Sometimes it helps me sleep to have certain music playing; sometimes I like to leave it going when I leave the house, to make it seem like someone's home; and sometimes I like to have it going in a room that I'm only in part of the time.
For these reasons, I'd like to temporarily suspend 'last played' and play count. Maybe there's already a way to do it with a hotkey and perl command, I don't know. But when I use weighted random, it usually pushes recently and often played songs to the bottom, including songs that played when I wasn't around.
For these reasons, I'd like to temporarily suspend 'last played' and play count. Maybe there's already a way to do it with a hotkey and perl command, I don't know. But when I use weighted random, it usually pushes recently and often played songs to the bottom, including songs that played when I wasn't around.