Application(s) of the Day

Nili · 2019-02-03 16:26:18

Hi S7.L, Only ZIP Archive can be played without plugin, To play RAR we must have RAR vfs (scroll-down @ the bottom page).

I'm sorry I should have separated the part of the RAR archive from ZIP, Zip doesn't need plugin.

Just read how to put plugins from the "Installation page" on the right folder that you must create for plugins.
it is usually "~/.local/lib/deadbeef/", just put on this path "vfs_rar.so", after having restart the player, the RAR archive will make the audio playable.

Please write me back if it comes to play or not.

S7.L · 2019-02-03 17:00:35

Cheers Nili, not working for me atm. Ill figure it out another day and leave this thread alone, thanks for chiming in.

beaker · 2019-02-03 22:48:30

Thanks for your answers guys re: deadbeef. I've happily used deadbeef myself for many years and currently use it on Solus Gnome.

I will have a play around with Quodlibet. Thanks for the suggestion.

Döbbie03 · 2019-02-04 04:58:08

S7.L wrote:

beaker wrote:
Why do you prefer it to deadbeef?
I just prefer quodlibet more as it has features im familiar with and doesn't need to be configured as much as deadbeef.
To be honest I found deadbeef frustrating to set up and get most of my collection onto where as quodlibet handled my well over 20k music library easily.
Here is a bit of a comparison below, deadbeef seems like the better player to most but i disagree
https://www.slant.co/versus/7239/7243/~ … quod-libet
Screenshot.
https://cdn.scrot.moe/images/2019/02/03/2019-02-04-021705_1366x768_scrot.th.png

My library is probably triple if not 4x (I've actually lost count) that size and it handles it nicely. 1tb of Metal scanned and added in about 10 minutes.

Here's mine

Nili · 2019-02-04 08:08:50

S7.L wrote:

Cheers Nili, not working for me atm. Ill figure it out another day and leave this thread alone, thanks for chiming in.

It 's just a isolated issue with RAR plugin or neither plugin works at all? Try to open player from terminal to see if a warning notice appears. If it is just a path issue, this is easily adjustable. If you need anything else, do not hesitate to drop me a PM.

Kind regards!

S7.L · 2019-02-11 15:24:47

regarding this post https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 508#p79508

Found out that foxit reader for android has a very nice method to reflow pdf files, works really well and i dont mind throwing some coin there way for this, they offer it free but with sign up to unlock extra features, but its the first app ive seen that has some truly unique and workable solutions for pdf files in small smartphones.

johnraff · 2019-06-22 03:47:20

Here's one that graphics developers might find useful, gtk2.0-examples which brings the utility gtk-demo.

For example, in "Stock Item and Icon Browser" it lets you look up stock gtk settings in a gui so you can see the icons and names. They will change as you change your icon theme, so you can also check your theme actually has such icons. I found it via 'man yad'.

There's also gtk-3-examples.

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MALsPa · 2021-04-23 22:03:47

beaker wrote:

Thanks for your answers guys re: deadbeef. I've happily used deadbeef myself for many years and currently use it on Solus Gnome.
I will have a play around with Quodlibet. Thanks for the suggestion.

Pulling up an old thread here. I was digging around trying to see if anybody here uses DeaDBeeF. I found it about a month ago. Audacious has been my favorite music player for the past few years, but I'm liking DeaDBeeF better than Audacious now!

I haven't spent a lot of time with Quod Libet, but I think DeaDBeeF might be a better fit for me. I'm very happy with it so far. I haven't done much configuration, just keeping things simple and playing music files from my collection. Very cool software.

hhh · 2021-04-24 01:57:06

^I've used both, and many others through the years. I liked Exaile a lot when it came out. https://exaile.org/ Clementine was cool as well.

All the terminal geeks use ncmpcpp/mpd, of course. I prefer Audacious, you can GTK theme it, it has gapless playback, you barely have to configure it and it's in the stable Debian repos.

jeffreyC · 2021-04-24 02:52:05

I use DeaDBeeF as my music player too.

ohnonot · 2021-04-25 05:23:58

hhh wrote:

All the terminal geeks use ncmpcpp/mpd, of course.

MPD also has many graphical frontends.

johnraff · 2021-04-25 05:33:37

hhh wrote:

gapless playback

This has its place, for sure.

hhh · 2021-04-25 17:26:26

johnraff wrote:

hhh wrote:
gapless playback
This has its place, for sure.

You can't play Pink Floyd without it.

johnraff · 2021-05-05 03:45:08

Finnix is a bit big to call an "Application" - it's a live session distro specially for fixing and tweaking systems - but I couldn't find a better place for it. Distro-hoppers didn't seem right for a system tool.

Finnix is a free, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution ("LiveCD") for system administrators, based on Debian. You can mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more. Finnix includes the latest technologies for system administrators, hundreds of sysadmin-geared packages, and much more. And above all, Finnix is small enough to quickly download and write to a USB thumb drive or burn to a CD. Finnix is not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops or productivity tools in order to keep distribution size low.

https://www.finnix.org/

The creator Ryan Finnie is a contributor to live-build so this should be solid. I have yet to try it though.

ohnonot · 2021-05-06 17:09:56

johnraff wrote:

The creator Ryan Finnie is a contributor to live-build so this should be solid.

And it's been around since 2005!

rbh · 2021-05-06 18:34:50

ohnonot wrote:

And it's been around since 2005!

And it boots very fast.
There is no bootcode to choose Swedish keyboard layout och quick switch?

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ratcheer · 2021-06-15 12:51:17

I have used rxvt-unicode for a long time, but yesterday I switched to Zutty, which is said to be very fast and technically correct.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

johnraff · 2021-10-08 12:42:13

Quickemu - an alternative QEMU front end, seems to have some interesting features:
https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu

Link courtesy of a Twitter post by one Philip Newborough

brontosaurusrex · 2021-10-08 13:47:31

The one and only. p.s. Just saw that on hacker news as well^.

johnraff · 2024-02-08 08:00:08

The web service "wormhole" appeared on my radar the other day - it might be OK, but anyway while looking for it I found the apparently unrelated package magic-wormhole. (On github too, and docs, and Hacker News.)

This runs in a terminal and is a cool-looking way to transfer files between two computers. Good for when you already have some communication with the receiving end so you can tell them the receiver code, eg the receiver is you with a separate laptop or something, or a friend in another country you can talk to on the phone. The receiver code is human-memorable and one-time usage only. Data is encrypted. No long-term server storage. Both ends must be online simultaneously. They claim tab-completion for the receiver code, but it didn't work for me - maybe Debian disabled it because it's unsafe.

Anyway, it looks like a useful tool to have available. Not a small install though, for me it was ~47MB without recommends.
Quick test worked pretty well.

Last edited by johnraff (2024-02-08 08:20:11)

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