• From: Nijmegen, Holland
  • Registered: 2009-12-11
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

qtfm - qtFM is a small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox.

Very nice, thanks, An.

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  • From: Australia
  • Registered: 2009-12-27
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

I use Deadbeef for my music. It's a very nice app.

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

http://mattsd.com/

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  • Registered: 2009-08-10
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

Matt-SD wrote:

I use Deadbeef for my music. It's a very nice app.

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

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  • Registered: 2010-05-23
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

Trasmageddon Video Converter

http://www.linuxrising.org/transmageddon/

  • From: Australia
  • Registered: 2009-12-27
  • Posts: 61

Re: Lesser known Apps.

MyPaint is FANTASTIC for tablet drawing. I used to use it (until kernel 2.6.36 took support for my tablet away).

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

http://mattsd.com/

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  • Registered: 2010-09-02
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

I tried to download qtfm but the page has been deleted

Get Dropbox and an extra 250 mb http://db.tt/wAizqw0
  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

The link on the page is messed up. This should work:

http://www.qtfm.org/qtfm-4.1.tar.gz
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

Thanks  big_smile

Get Dropbox and an extra 250 mb http://db.tt/wAizqw0

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I have a new mp3 player (Philips GoGear Vibe) which I love, but one thing was annoying me. I don't mind riding the volume at home or even in a car, but trying to adjust volume levels between different tracks while bicycling or running is aggravating. I needed a program that would not only normalize my indiidual mp3s, but could do it with my mp3s scattered in their individual subfolders. I installed Mp3Gain...
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/faq.php
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mp3gain
Then I switched to my Music folder and ran one command...

cd Music
find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mp3gain -r -k

and let the sucker run.

I love it, I'm not reaching for the volume every 5 minutes, but the songs all sound fine... the dynamics of each song seem to be preserved perfectly, just their relative volumes have changed. Joy.

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^ mp3Gain is what mp3diags uses for replay gain by default.  I keep meaning to install it, as it isn't pulled in as a dependency.  I'm not sure if mp3Gain actually recodes the files (which would be bad in my opinion, as this would result in a copy of a copy) or simply appends a gain value as metadata.  Anyway, I'm glad it worked for you!

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  • From: Nagoya, Japan
  • Registered: 2009-01-07
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Re: Lesser known Apps.

pvsage wrote:

I'm not sure if mp3Gain actually recodes the files (which would be bad in my opinion, as this would result in a copy of a copy) or simply appends a gain value as metadata.

I'm pretty sure it's the latter - it just adjusts a gain setting somewhere.

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pvsage wrote:

^ mp3Gain is what mp3diags uses for replay gain by default.  I keep meaning to install it, as it isn't pulled in as a dependency.  I'm not sure if mp3Gain actually recodes the files (which would be bad in my opinion, as this would result in a copy of a copy) or simply appends a gain value as metadata.  Anyway, I'm glad it worked for you!

FAQ wrote:

Does normalizing the mp3 degrade its quality?
No. MP3Gain does not decode and re-encode the mp3 to change its volume. You can change the volume as many times as you want, and the mp3 will sound just as good (or just as bad!) as it did before you started.

Thanks, it works great and has made my near-daily bike rides even more fun.

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  • Registered: 2010-11-10
  • Posts: 55

Re: Lesser known Apps.

Matt-SD wrote:

MyPaint is FANTASTIC for tablet drawing. I used to use it (until kernel 2.6.36 took support for my tablet away).

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

I just tried this out on my Toughbook and I'm loving it! its a shame your tablet isn't working - this is great software!

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  • From: Australia
  • Registered: 2009-12-27
  • Posts: 61

Re: Lesser known Apps.

rabbitofdeath wrote:
Matt-SD wrote:

MyPaint is FANTASTIC for tablet drawing. I used to use it (until kernel 2.6.36 took support for my tablet away).

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

I just tried this out on my Toughbook and I'm loving it! its a shame your tablet isn't working - this is great software!

I actually did get it working just the other day using this: http://lik.noblogs.org/post/2010/05/07/wacom-debian/

http://mattsd.com/

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  • From: Texas
  • Registered: 2010-11-10
  • Posts: 55

Re: Lesser known Apps.

@Matt-SD good to hear! I'm convinced there is nothing you can't get working with #! - its funny that way - I used to have more problems with Ubuntu and my tablet than Debian...

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  • From: Dungeons of Doom
  • Registered: 2011-01-02
  • Posts: 575

Re: Lesser known Apps.

I use pithos when I just want to listen to something and I don't really care. Infact I using it right now. big_smile

Last edited by AwesomeFist (2011-01-08 03:22:04)

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  • From: Texas
  • Registered: 2010-11-10
  • Posts: 55

Re: Lesser known Apps.

Since i just installed #! on my desktop I thought I'd add a few apps that are handy:

nethogs - view network traffic to and from your machine in real time
iotop - view what is reading/writing to your disk in real time
dnsutils - installs nslookup so you can do some name resolution from terminal cool

I'm sure theres more i'm missing, but I can't think of any smile

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