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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked QuestionsInstallationDoes Quod Libet require GNOME?No, but we recommend you install the GNOME libraries and Python bindings when using Quod Libet. If they are installed, Quod Libet will use a better tray icon and your default GNOME audio options. I get gst.PluginNotFoundError: monkeysdec when starting Quod Libet.This is due to a stale ape.py file lying around from Quod Libet 0.17 or earlier. You should remove formats/ape.py and formats/ape.pyc. In general, installing a new version of QL without first uninstalling the old version is not supported. I'm running Gentoo, and...We are not the first line of support for Gentoo Linux. If you are running Gentoo and experience problems, file a bug on the Gentoo bug tracking system at bugs.gentoo.org. How do I install a plugin?Click Music on the menu and select Plugins. Then check the box of any plugin you'd like to install. If the plugin you are looking for isn't listed there, download it from: Plugins. You shouldn't forget to save every plugin into its respective folder: event plugins into ~/.quodlibet/plugins/events subfolder etc. GeneralWhy don't all my songs appear in the playlist when I select their artist/album/genre/search for them?Do you have a global filter in use? Check the Browsers tab in Music → Preferences. Why can't I double-click a song in GNOME to play in Quod Libet?You can! File association is more to do with the file manager you're using. If you're using GNOME, right-click on the mp3 file in Nautilus and select 'Properties'. Go to the 'Open with' tab, then select the 'Add' button. In the 'Use custom command' text field add the following: quodlibet --play-file %F and then click 'add'. Now you can select 'quodlibet' from the list of programs to open that file. Double-click the file and Quod Libet will start to play it. My filenames with special characters (ú, ç, はあ, etc.) don't appear properly.Unless told otherwise Quod Libet assumes your filesystem is using UTF-8 filenames (this is a standard assumption for GTK+ applications). To tell it otherwise, export G_FILENAME_ENCODING="iso-8859-1" (or whatever value you need) in your ~/.bashrc or other appropriate place. You can also use the magic value @locale to use the default character encoding for your locale. I want keyboard shortcuts to change browsers (or anything else).Put gtk-can-change-accels = 1 in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (and restart Quod Libet). Then hover the mouse over the menu item you want to set an accelerator for, and press that key. When using GNOME this setting can be toggled in Menus and Toolbars in the GNOME settings. Whenever I type a space, Quod Libet pauses.Users of some keyboard layouts, including the popular French Alternative, may hit this bug. In these layouts, the spacebar sends a non-breaking space character, which GTK+ interprets as <control>space. This is a known bug in GTK. You can work around it by changing your keyboard layout to send a regular space, or by changing the keybinding for play/pause using the method above. PlayerHow do I add the play count or skip count to the columns in the song list?Add the ~#playcount and/or ~#skipcount tags to the song header list (in the "Others" field). How do I get Quod Libet to play MP4/M4A files?Install GStreamer FAAD support (in gst-plugins-bad), Quod Libet 0.25, and Mutagen 1.9 or above. How do I prevent Quod Libet from locking the audio device?If you use ALSA, you can enable ALSA dmix to have ALSA mix in software. In ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher this is enabled by default for soundcards that don't support hardware mixing. You can have other OSS apps use ALSA with the aoss wrapper supplied in the alsa-oss package (so they can share the audio device with Quod Libet). For older versions of Debian, you can enable dmix by copying /usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples/asound.conf_dmix to ~/.asoundrc`. See the ALSA dmix guide for more information. How do I use a different soundcard with Quod Libet?See the chapter on configuring the audio backend in the user's guide. Why do my MP3 files have the wrong length?The ID3 standard defines the TLEN frame. If an MP3 has an ID3 tag which contains a TLEN frame, Quod Libet will use it. You can remove incorrect TLEN frames from your MP3 files by running: $ mid3v2 --delete-frames=TLEN filename.mp3 Why does Quod Libet sort my songs out of order? (Or, Why does Quod Libet sort "A" before "a"?)Music metadata, like music, comes in many languages, and sorting multilanguage text is hard to do. It depends on your language as well as the text being sorted, and often is still not well-defined. Unicode Technical Standard #10 outlines an algorithm to sort multilanguage text, but even then it needs ordinal data for each character for each language. We don't know of any Python implementations of it, and any implementation we use would have to be fast since we compare thousands of strings when sorting. I have two albums with the same name, and they sort out of order/get merged in the Album List.Tag them with different labelid tags (it's best if you use the actual label catalog ID, but if you can't find it you can also just use any different values). You can also use musicbrainz_albumid tags, which several other taggers can write. I have two discs of the same album, and they don't get merged in the Album List.Make sure they have the same name (i.e. without "(disc x)" on the end). If they are still not merged, they have different labelid or musicbrainz_albumid tags. If they have different label ID tags, delete the incorrect one. If they have different MusicBrainz album ID tags, add a labelid tag that is the same for both albums. Can I show more than 0 to 4 notes when rating songs?Close Quod Libet; in ~/.quodlibet/config find the ratings = 4 line. Change it to ratings = _however many ratings you want__. It's best if the value divides 100 evenly; multiples of 2 and 5 are good. You will need to use the ratings right-click menu to set ratings above 4. How can I hide incomplete albums from the Album ViewEnter #(tracks > 5) into the search box above the album list. This will only show albums with greater than than 5 tracks. How can I list my tracks based on their ratings?Right click somewhere on headers bar (which is below the search bar), select "Track Headers" from the menu and add "Ratings". Now if you click "Ratings" on the headers bar your tracks will be sorted based on their ratings. How is album art handled?Album covers should be put in the same directory as the songs they apply to, and have "folder", "front", or "cover" in their filenames. If you want to store multiple albums in the same directory but keep distinct cover images, the name of the appropriate image file must contain the labelid tag value, e.g. "COCX-32760 cover.jpg". My multimedia keys no longer work under GNOMEGNOME 2.18 implemented an undocumented and crappy D-Bus-based interface that takes control of the multimedia keys on your keyboard while you're running GNOME. Ronny Haryanto wrote a plugin to support this interface. Tag EditingI have a lot of ID3 tags in euc-kr/cp1251/windows-1252/latin-1024/insert favorite encoding here; can QL read them?You can define a custom list of encodings to check. UTF-8 is always tried first, and Latin-1 is always tried last. To make your own list, close QL, open up ~/.quodlibet/config, and find the id3encoding option. You can enter any valid encodings here, separated by spaces, and they will be tried in order. If you have files already imported into your library with incorrect tags, you'll need to reload them. Quod Libet saves ID3 tags in UTF-8 or UTF-16. Media DevicesI see the iPod icon but nothing happens
Other stuffWhat does the name mean?Quodlibet or Quod libet is Latin for "whatever you please" or "whatever you want", which is the kind of attitude we want to convey with QL: you control how you fiddle with your music. A quodlibet is also a type of musical composition, an improvisation by several players or vocalists at once, which is a pretty accurate description of QL's development. Ex falso quodlibet, or "from a falsehood, whatever you please" is one of the properties of material implication (if/then) in classical logics; in standard notation it can be written as ∀A (⊥ → A). Finally, the initial directory imported into Subversion was named ql, because I was experimenting with a syntax for a q_uery l_anguage. Where do the release names come from?Daily Dinosaur Comics at the time of the release. I like <my favorite player>, so I won't use Quod Libet!Okay. We think Quod Libet beats other players in the areas where it counts (where exactly it does count is undecided; 'tag editing', 'massive libraries', and 'regexp searching' have all been cited); we didn't like the other players. If you do, continue using them. You still might want to check out Ex Falso, since while there's an awful lot of media players out there, there's not much else in the way of tag editors. You could also help us make Quod Libet better. Ok, I am sold but how do I import playlists, ratings and other data from <my favorite player> to Quod Libet!
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I general, if you're having problems, make sure you have the latest version from the download page. (v2.0 at the time of this writing) Ubuntu 8.04 which i'm using here only comes with a quodlibet v1.0 package.
Please add support for .mid and.kar files, like the ones in this link: http://www.karaokecrime.com/2009/01/giant-free-karaoke-music-archive-kar-midi-files
The plugins section should link to Guide_Plugins
How to install the latest package from download page (so that ql e.g. shows up in menu's and gnomeDp etc.)?
I would add that after initially adding your music, the bar goes back and forth for a while, but nothing shows up. The trick is to do a search for nothing, then my 4000 songs appear. Hope this helps someone else.