Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Bob Elzer]

I thought you were having problems in other players?
was top saying clementine was using 10% ? how much was pulse taking as
clementine was running? Any other programs listed in top as you are using
clementine?
Check if clementine has a fade in delay.
Odd tones makes me think corrupt files, which could be the sign of a disk
going bad
Same with blank audio
You say it worked fine for a year, and you did no updates, that would make
me think a hardware issue.
You could look at iostat on the disk or check the number of bad sectors
with smart tools





On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 9:49 AM Victor Odhner  wrote:

> Victor M.
> Thanks for the suggestions. I do think I need to try a new OS, so maybe
> one of these.
> I’ll grab another hard disk and start fresh, using the year-old disk to
> copy my library and scripts.
> In my researching, I’ve encountered a number of complaints about
> PulseAudio.
>
> Anybody familiar with either AV Linux or KX Studio?
>
> Aaron:
> I have various people running this system, so command line is definitely
> out of the question. Everyone knows Windows, so if my next attempt doesn’t
> work perfectly I’ll have to cave in and buy Win10. Being the sole geek is
> not good for the organization.
> (The way cmus is described tells me it very should work extremely well.)
>
> Bob:
> I’m using a small amount of my year-old 2 TB hard disk.
> TOP says I’m using <10% of my CPU. I haven’t run any updates, in the year
> it’s been running.
> I hardly look at bitrate, so don’t know. Clementine shows song moving
> smoothly with no sound, then sound kicks in at five seconds into the song.
> If music is corrupted, why would it play smoothly in several other
> programs?
> 
>
> On 20190430, at 06:49, Bob Elzer  wrote:
>
> hard drive or ssd? What size and how much free space?
> Have you tried running top to see if the CPU is getting overloaded?
> Are you doing regular updates? You say it was running fine, did you start
> having problems after an update. If that is the case, do you really need to
> do the updates? If it ain't broke...
> Could be a drive problem how old is the drive?
> What bitrate is the music? Is the music stuttering or actually continuing
> later in the song?
> Can you copy the music file you had the problem with to another computer
> to make sure it didn't get corrupted?
> _
>
> On 20190430, at 01:25, Aaron Jones  wrote:
>
> Try cmus if you are comfortable doing it from the command line. You get a
> tui for managing it but it can also be scripted.
> https://cmus.github.io/
>
> _
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 AM Victor Montoya 
> wrote:
>
>> I suggest Linux Calculate.  It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe
>> doesn't have pulse audio.
>> I also suggest Linux MX.  It is Debian based and had system d and pulse
>> audio by passed.  It will also probably be easier to install and maintain.
>> I find that many audio problems have their roots in System D and pulse
>> audio.
>> _
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner  wrote:
>>
>> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces
>> of the music. It used to run smoothly.
>>
>> Can someone suggest a *more stable music-playing distro of Linux,*
>> and/or a better *play-list manager*?
>>
>> *Requirements;*
>> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
>> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
>> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not
>> simultaneously with playing music.
>>
>> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
>> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an
>> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
>> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my
>> problem is software.
>>
>> *The problem:* Clementine has served us well for about a year.
>> Now,* when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!*
>>
>> A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the
>> first beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then
>> turns the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced
>> by a rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.
>>
>> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but
>> now that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits
>> out one beat of the next song!
>>
>> *Status:* I am desparate.
>> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
>>

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Mike Bushroe]

What about writing a batch file to concatenate an mp3 of 5 seconds of
silence onto the front of every song and modify the file names to show they
have been padded. Consider it like the dead space between tracks on the old
vinyl records.

Mike

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Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

[Stephen Partington]

My eventual desire is to build a system similar to the 2 gamers one box
scenario that LTT did.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:04 PM Kevin Fries  wrote:

> One thing every Linux user knows is that not all software is created
> equal.  While I find some of the standard tools we use (like InkScape, and
> Gimp) to be actually better than most paid options in Windows (sure some of
> the expensive graphical tools will exceed the Linux tools, but the
> mid-range and low cost ones are often better in Linux).
>
> However there are some tools that really have no replacement.  Visio is
> one of the best known ones.  One trick I have used with great success is
> RDesktop with SeamlessRDP.  Rather than running windows as a VirtualBox and
> trying to move back and forth.  You can actually have windows programs
> (running in a VM in the background) appear on your desktop like first class
> Linux apps.
>
> Works really, really well if you take the time to set it up right, and
> freaks out your windows friends when you show them the new Linux port of
> Adobe Photoshop.  Watch them Google the heck out of it.  LOL.
>
> Kevin
>
> Sent from BlueMail 
> On Apr 30, 2019, at 4:06 PM, David Schwartz 
> wrote:
>>
>> I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla
>> Windows computer with Win 7 … 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or
>> Asus laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a
>> VirtualBox VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD
>> and install some friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox
>> and then the VM and make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually
>> identical to how it did before.
>>
>> So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it
>> myself.
>>
>> What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would
>> explain how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos,
>> books, eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>>
>> Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take?
>> Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences?
>>
>> -David Schwartz
>>
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Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

[Kevin Fries]

One thing every Linux user knows is that not all software is created equal.  
While I find some of the standard tools we use (like InkScape, and Gimp) to be 
actually better than most paid options in Windows (sure some of the expensive 
graphical tools will exceed the Linux tools, but the mid-range and low cost 
ones are often better in Linux).

However there are some tools that really have no replacement.  Visio is one of 
the best known ones.  One trick I have used with great success is RDesktop with 
SeamlessRDP.  Rather than running windows as a VirtualBox and trying to move 
back and forth.  You can actually have windows programs (running in a VM in the 
background) appear on your desktop like first class Linux apps.

Works really, really well if you take the time to set it up right, and freaks 
out your windows friends when you show them the new Linux port of Adobe 
Photoshop.  Watch them Google the heck out of it.  LOL.

Kevin

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On Apr 30, 2019, 4:06 PM, at 4:06 PM, David Schwartz 
 wrote:
>I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla
>Windows computer with Win 7 ... 10 on it, like your typical Dell or
>Lenovo or Asus laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the
>apps into a VirtualBox VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully
>reformat the HDD and install some friendly version of Linux; and
>finally load up VirtualBox and then the VM and make the VM work so it
>looked and acted virtually identical to how it did before.
>
>So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing
>it myself.
>
>What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would
>explain how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos,
>books, eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>
>Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it
>take? Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar
>experiences?
>
>-David Schwartz
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

[Todd Cole]

I have converted several windows 7 and windows 2012 servers to proxmox kvm
by using clonezilla (helps to add the kvm driver first)
For virtualbox I have used a vmware converter with success but I hear that
Disksvhd is better.
I added a youtube video that shows the basic process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF8GtaEXZc4
time factor will be based on speed and drive size and after the process
recheck the MS license depending on the windows version you may need to
update the license as if you upgraded the hardware

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM David Schwartz 
wrote:

> I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows
> computer with Win 7 … 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus
> laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a VirtualBox
> VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD and install
> some friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox and then the
> VM and make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually identical to how
> it did before.
>
> So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it
> myself.
>
> What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would explain
> how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos, books,
> eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>
> Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take?
> Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences?
>
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Re: replacing Windows w/ Linux

[Stephen Partington]

Lots of ways to do this. From mounting the physical drive/partition in your
VM (kinda weird feeling but works well) to using various disk imaging tools.

really i would do the research on your desired VM platform and make choices
based on that.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM David Schwartz 
wrote:

> I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows
> computer with Win 7 … 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus
> laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a VirtualBox
> VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD and install
> some friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox and then the
> VM and make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually identical to how
> it did before.
>
> So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it
> myself.
>
> What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would explain
> how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos, books,
> eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>
> Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take?
> Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences?
>
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replacing Windows w/ Linux

[David Schwartz]

I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows 
computer with Win 7 ... 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus 
laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a VirtualBox VM; 
copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD and install some 
friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox and then the VM and 
make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually identical to how it did 
before. 

So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it 
myself.

What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would explain how 
an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos, books, eBooks, 
tutorials, whatever.

Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take? Or how 
long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences?

-David Schwartz



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Re: Having trouble mounting an external disk

[David Lopez]

thanks all

installed the missing software (exfat-fuse exfat-utils).
works like a charm.

david

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Stephen Partington 
wrote:

> Also note, While Linux does have an ExFat option. the Linux ExFat is very
> different than the Windows ExFat.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:17 PM Jason Spatafore <
> jason_onl...@spatafore.net> wrote:
>
>> exFAT is a new FS type to handle larger disks. (Windows format)
>>
>> Answer likely here for you.
>>
>> You'll likely just need to do the following commands
>>
>> sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
>>
>>
>> On 4/28/19 5:07 PM, David Lopez wrote:
>>
>> hi guys & gals
>>
>> bought an external usb3 disk, Western Digital 3 Tera-bytes.
>> my Ubuntu try's to automatically mount on /media/david
>> (david is my user name) which is the standard mount point
>> for all of the other external disks i have tried successfully
>> (Toshiba, Seagate).
>>
>> The error code is "unknown filesystem type "exfat".
>>
>> I found it by looking at the "My Book" dir under the /media dir using the
>> "Files" app.
>>
>> i'll certainly go the wd web site unless you guys have a remedy.
>>
>> david
>>
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PLUG Meeting Thursday May 9th - Intro to Cryptography pt3 - Quantum & Post-Quantum Crypto

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   **This month we will get Anthony Kosednar's third installment of his
   Intro to Cryptography series, "Intro to Cryptography - Quantum &
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Cryptography is at the heart of modern day privacy and security. We use 
it every day from sending an email to making important financial 
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With the advent of Quantum computing and the abilities it has brought, 
our security landscape has changed. Previously secure methods are 
becoming obsolete. Come learn about Qubits, Shor's Algorithm, and ways 
to keep information secure in a post-quantum world.


/*Before attending, it is recommended you watch the two previous talks 
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*About Anthony*:
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understanding in delivering cyber security and technology solutions. He 
works in the industry as a security engineer for enterprises. He holds a 
GIAC Exploit Research and Advance Penetration certificate (GXPN) as well 
as several certificates in Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems 
from DHS.




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start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup 
and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.

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The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, 
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Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Victor Odhner]

Victor M.
Thanks for the suggestions. I do think I need to try a new OS, so maybe one of 
these.
I’ll grab another hard disk and start fresh, using the year-old disk to copy my 
library and scripts.
In my researching, I’ve encountered a number of complaints about PulseAudio.

Anybody familiar with either AV Linux or KX Studio?

Aaron:
I have various people running this system, so command line is definitely out of 
the question. Everyone knows Windows, so if my next attempt doesn’t work 
perfectly I’ll have to cave in and buy Win10. Being the sole geek is not good 
for the organization.
(The way cmus is described tells me it very should work extremely well.)

Bob:
I’m using a small amount of my year-old 2 TB hard disk.
TOP says I’m using <10% of my CPU. I haven’t run any updates, in the year it’s 
been running.
I hardly look at bitrate, so don’t know. Clementine shows song moving smoothly 
with no sound, then sound kicks in at five seconds into the song.
If music is corrupted, why would it play smoothly in several other programs?


On 20190430, at 06:49, Bob Elzer  wrote:

hard drive or ssd? What size and how much free space?
Have you tried running top to see if the CPU is getting overloaded?
Are you doing regular updates? You say it was running fine, did you start 
having problems after an update. If that is the case, do you really need to do 
the updates? If it ain't broke...
Could be a drive problem how old is the drive?
What bitrate is the music? Is the music stuttering or actually continuing later 
in the song?
Can you copy the music file you had the problem with to another computer to 
make sure it didn't get corrupted?
_

On 20190430, at 01:25, Aaron Jones  wrote:

Try cmus if you are comfortable doing it from the command line. You get a tui 
for managing it but it can also be scripted. 
https://cmus.github.io/ <https://cmus.github.io/>

_

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 AM Victor Montoya mailto:victor.monto...@cox.net>> wrote:
I suggest Linux Calculate.  It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe doesn't 
have pulse audio.
I also suggest Linux MX.  It is Debian based and had system d and pulse audio 
by passed.  It will also probably be easier to install and maintain.  I find 
that many audio problems have their roots in System D and pulse audio.
_

On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner mailto:vodh...@cox.net>> wrote:

> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of 
> the music. It used to run smoothly.
> 
> Can someone suggest a more stable music-playing distro of Linux, and/or a 
> better play-list manager?
> 
> Requirements;
> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not 
> simultaneously with playing music.
> 
> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an 
> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my problem 
> is software.
> 
> The problem: Clementine has served us well for about a year.
> Now, when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!
> 
> A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the first 
> beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then turns 
> the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a 
> rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.
> 
> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but now 
> that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one 
> beat of the next song!
> 
> Status: I am desparate.
> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
> I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong 
> distro?
> Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?
> I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely 
> stable with rich audio repositories.
> I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested updates 
> of audio tools.
> 
> I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the 
> organization. Help me to be strong!
> 
> The problem is not just with Clementine.
> I tested with some other software:
> * Rhythmbox plays well, with the occasional injection of a rogue note.
> * Media Player seems to run well, and SM Player & MPV likewise. But these 
> aren’t good for managing play lists.
> * VLC sputters along continually in a sort of motorboat pattern. You can hear 
> the song faintly, with bits of the song

Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Bob Elzer]

hard drive or ssd? What size and how much free space?
Have you tried running top to see if the CPU is getting overloaded?
Are you doing regular updates? You say it was running fine, did you start
having problems after an update. If that is the case, do you really need to
do the updates? If it ain't broke...
Could be a drive problem how old is the drive?
What bitrate is the music? Is the music stuttering or actually continuing
later in the song?
Can you copy the music file you had the problem with to another computer to
make sure it didn't get corrupted?




On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 1:49 AM Victor Montoya 
wrote:

> I suggest Linux Calculate.  It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe
> doesn't have pulse audio.
> I also suggest Linux MX.  It is Debian based and had system d and pulse
> audio by passed.  It will also probably be easier to install and maintain.
> I find that many audio problems have their roots in System D and pulse
> audio.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner  wrote:
>
> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of
> the music. It used to run smoothly.
>
> Can someone suggest a *more stable music-playing distro of Linux,* and/or
> a better *play-list manager*?
>
> *Requirements;*
> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not
> simultaneously with playing music.
>
> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an
> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my
> problem is software.
>
> *The problem:* Clementine has served us well for about a year.
> Now,* when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!*
>
> A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the first
> beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then turns
> the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a
> rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.
>
> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but
> now that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits
> out one beat of the next song!
>
> *Status:* I am desparate.
> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
> I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong
> distro?
> Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?
> I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely
> stable with rich audio repositories.
> I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested
> updates of audio tools.
>
> I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the
> organization. Help me to be strong!
>
> *The problem is not just with Clementine.*
> I tested with some other software:
> * *Rhythmbox* plays well, with the occasional *injection of a rogue note.*
> * *Media Player* seems to run well, and *SM Player* & *MPV* likewise. But
> these *aren’t good for managing play lists.*
> * *VLC* sputters along continually in a sort of motorboat pattern. You
> can hear the song faintly, with bits of the song alternating with muted
> moments several times a second.
> * I tried *Audacity* for an extra “player” test: I used it as the “open
> with” choice for a song. As it launched, it made *a nasty scratching
> noise* that I have not learned before. But then when I hit the play
> button it rendered the song nicely, like Media Player etc.
>
> In my research I’ve found discussions of earlier troubles in Mint, with
> scratching noises and stuff. Mine seems different.
>
> Does this sound like
>
> *Computer Configuration:*
> Intel Celeron CPU G3930 800.048 MHZ
> MOBO Gigabyte H110M-M2-CF
> Audio HDA-INTEL PCH, USB Audio CODEC
> CODEC REALTEC ALC887-VD
> HDA Intel PCH Line Out ALSA Driver Ver K4.10.0-38-generic
> (Audio is fed from USB port to a Behringer U-Control adapter, then to the
> Mackie mixer board.)
> MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco)
> x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic
> Memory: 8 GB.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me.
> Victor Odhner
>
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RE: OT -> F$%I#@ Android decided not to show contact names...

[Carruth, Rusty]

I'm using '"should I answer?" (web site shouldianser.com), which can be set to 
reject (and/or send to voice mail, if I remember right) any phone call from a 
number not in your contacts.

Works much better than the stupid app TMobile forces on your phone (they think 
a phone number that is valid is a robocaller.  It isn't, but I can't get them 
to shut up and let me get calls from that number, as I know the caller and wish 
to get calls from them.  Oh, ok, sure, I could pay what, $5 a month to be able 
to turn it off?  No, sorry.)


Rusty

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Subject: Re: OT -> F$%I#@ Android decided not to show contact names...

Thanks!
I don't believe I have lost any contacts.
All the names and number that I remember are there.
The problem is that contact's names are not displayed in incoming calls, and 
it's a pain to screen calls...   :(
ET 

Michael Butash writes: 

> If you log into the web for gmail and contacts, are they there?  If so,
> worst case restore the phone and reimport settings.  I pick up lots of
> random weirdness in every phone I've had, eventually it seems necessary to
> just start over.  Much like windoze... 
> 
> I always seem to lose a bunch of contacts between upgrades, every vendor
> loves to set their default preferences to anything but what you want it
> seems, so stuff seems to slip away for me every time with users bound only
> to a local storage mechanism, or lost among one of another half-dozen
> accounts on the phone.  I wish there were better options other than
> diligence. 
> 
> -mb 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:23 PM Stephen Partington 
> wrote: 
> 
>> I would suggest you look into nextcloud and some of the contact sync tools
>> there and see if you can leverage that. This would at least allow you to
>> sync co tacts but manage your own data. 
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 9:45 AM  wrote: 
>>
>>> Yep, I tried rebooting...
>>> I think (hope) that my contacts are in the SIM car.
>>> I don't do anything with Google than I *ABSOLUTELY* have to (like
>>> android).
>>> ET 
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Partington writes: 
>>>
>>> > Where are your contacts stored? Google or some related service or on the
>>> > phobe/SIM?
>>> >
>>> > Ps you tried a reboot I am guessing?
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 3:10 AM  wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Help...
>>> >> For some $%#@ reason, my phone decided to stop showing me the
>>> >> corresponding
>>> >> name in my contact list when I receive or place a call.
>>> >> I rely on my caller ID to screen a bunch of spam/scam calls, does
>>> anybody
>>> >> know how to restore the capability?
>>> >>
>>> >> I am about to hang myself from a pumpkin tree...   :(
>>> >> ET
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Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Victor Montoya]

I suggest Linux Calculate.  It is a Gentoo based distro that I believe doesn't 
have pulse audio.
I also suggest Linux MX.  It is Debian based and had system d and pulse audio 
by passed.  It will also probably be easier to install and maintain.  I find 
that many audio problems have their roots in System D and pulse audio.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Victor Odhner  wrote:
> 
> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of 
> the music. It used to run smoothly.
> 
> Can someone suggest a more stable music-playing distro of Linux, and/or a 
> better play-list manager?
> 
> Requirements;
> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not 
> simultaneously with playing music.
> 
> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an 
> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my problem 
> is software.
> 
> The problem: Clementine has served us well for about a year.
> Now, when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!
> 
> A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the first 
> beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then turns 
> the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a 
> rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.
> 
> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but now 
> that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one 
> beat of the next song!
> 
> Status: I am desparate.
> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
> I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong 
> distro?
> Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?
> I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely 
> stable with rich audio repositories.
> I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested updates 
> of audio tools.
> 
> I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the 
> organization. Help me to be strong!
> 
> The problem is not just with Clementine.
> I tested with some other software:
> * Rhythmbox plays well, with the occasional injection of a rogue note.
> * Media Player seems to run well, and SM Player & MPV likewise. But these 
> aren’t good for managing play lists.
> * VLC sputters along continually in a sort of motorboat pattern. You can hear 
> the song faintly, with bits of the song alternating with muted moments 
> several times a second.
> * I tried Audacity for an extra “player” test: I used it as the “open with” 
> choice for a song. As it launched, it made a nasty scratching noise that I 
> have not learned before. But then when I hit the play button it rendered the 
> song nicely, like Media Player etc.
> 
> In my research I’ve found discussions of earlier troubles in Mint, with 
> scratching noises and stuff. Mine seems different.
> 
> Does this sound like 
> 
> Computer Configuration:
> Intel Celeron CPU G3930 800.048 MHZ
> MOBO Gigabyte H110M-M2-CF
> Audio HDA-INTEL PCH, USB Audio CODEC
> CODEC REALTEC ALC887-VD
> HDA Intel PCH Line Out ALSA Driver Ver K4.10.0-38-generic
> (Audio is fed from USB port to a Behringer U-Control adapter, then to the 
> Mackie mixer board.)
> MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco)
> x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic
> Memory: 8 GB.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me.
> Victor Odhner
> 
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Re: Linux Mint mutes parts of music

[Aaron Jones]

Try cmus if you are comfortable doing it from the command line. You get a tui 
for managing it but it can also be scripted. 

https://cmus.github.io/

It can be managed remote so you can do it from a remote terminal too. So you 
don’t have to dj from the box itself but instead run headless. 

Try it out and see if it plays your songs. 

Thanks,
Aaron

> On Apr 30, 2019, at 12:13 AM, Victor Odhner  wrote:
> 
> A computer I built, dedicated to play music in church, is muting pieces of 
> the music. It used to run smoothly.
> 
> Can someone suggest a more stable music-playing distro of Linux, and/or a 
> better play-list manager?
> 
> Requirements;
> Maintain my mp3 library and manage play-lists.
> Build a play-list for an event. Play each song on cue, and stop when done.
> Play a video program to a separate port (video projector), but not 
> simultaneously with playing music.
> 
> I had used Clementine for managing and playing the music.
> Now music is not always played smoothly: some segments are muted, and an 
> occasional “rogue” note is played out of place.
> I have tried different tests, switched some hardware, but I think my problem 
> is software.
> 
> The problem: Clementine has served us well for about a year.
> Now, when I play a song, it mutes the first five seconds of the song!
> 
> A few songs work well, consistently. For a few other songs I get the first 
> beat of the song, then it plays the next five seconds silently, then turns 
> the sound back on. Every now and then, just a beat or two is replaced by a 
> rogue note from the same song; those are not reproducible.
> 
> Clementine has a feature where we can mark the last song in a group, but now 
> that is broken too: it stops at the end of the marked song, but spits out one 
> beat of the next song!
> 
> Status: I am desparate.
> I could try to update from Mint 18 to 19.
> I thought Linux wouldn’t jerk me around like Windows does. Maybe the wrong 
> distro?
> Does PulseAudio have something to do with this? Should I use JACK?
> I could try AV Linux — it’s 32bit not 64, but is supposed to be extremely 
> stable with rich audio repositories.
> I could try KX Studio — supposedly very stable, with frequent tested updates 
> of audio tools.
> 
> I could switch to (gasp!) windows since I’m the only Linux geek in the 
> organization. Help me to be strong!
> 
> The problem is not just with Clementine.
> I tested with some other software:
> * Rhythmbox plays well, with the occasional injection of a rogue note.
> * Media Player seems to run well, and SM Player & MPV likewise. But these 
> aren’t good for managing play lists.
> * VLC sputters along continually in a sort of motorboat pattern. You can hear 
> the song faintly, with bits of the song alternating with muted moments 
> several times a second.
> * I tried Audacity for an extra “player” test: I used it as the “open with” 
> choice for a song. As it launched, it made a nasty scratching noise that I 
> have not learned before. But then when I hit the play button it rendered the 
> song nicely, like Media Player etc.
> 
> In my research I’ve found discussions of earlier troubles in Mint, with 
> scratching noises and stuff. Mine seems different.
> 
> Does this sound like 
> 
> Computer Configuration:
> Intel Celeron CPU G3930 800.048 MHZ
> MOBO Gigabyte H110M-M2-CF
> Audio HDA-INTEL PCH, USB Audio CODEC
> CODEC REALTEC ALC887-VD
> HDA Intel PCH Line Out ALSA Driver Ver K4.10.0-38-generic
> (Audio is fed from USB port to a Behringer U-Control adapter, then to the 
> Mackie mixer board.)
> MINT 18.3 (MATE 1.18.2 Metacity Marco)
> x86_64 Linux - OS Release 4.10.0-36 generic
> Memory: 8 GB.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion you might have for me.
> Victor Odhner
> 
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