Problem: Some flac players refuse to play some flac files, and even tools like an old ffmpeg can’t handle some flac files Solution: These flac files might have id3v2 tags which they realy should not, because flac uses vorbis style tags and not id3. Remove those id3v2 tags with this command: This removes the id3v2 […]
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Problem: Firefox 52 audio does not work without pulseaudio. Discussion: pulseaudio is a bloated audio daemon that often fails. In the last years, when ever audio failed on linux, the quickest solution was to uninstall pulseaudio. But the Firefox developers made the mistake to remove support for the underlying audio driver alsa, and insist on the middle
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I use Logitech Squeezeboxes at home for my music library, Internet radio, and podcasts. The server is running on my Linux server, and the clients are Squeezebox Boom and Squeezebox Duet. If you like to stream to your desktop PC, you can use several software squeezebox clients, but there is also a simple way to
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