[kwlug-disc] Music Management

[B.S.]

"Hi Jeff"

> I've never used Wine before, so I'm also wondering if this would be a
> good cheat or not.  I'm concerned about letting a Windows program mess
> around with the Linux file system, though...

Remember, Wine is a Linux program, that permits regular Linux access for
programs making Windows calls. Which is to say ... you are no more at
risk with a Wine program than with any other Linux program. So, for
example, as you don't run wine programs as root, your system files are
no more at risk than with any other Linux non-root running program.

[Worst case, you might impact Windows systems files, albeit probably not
without warning, but (wine) Windows system files are not Linux system
files. You might impact other (wine) Windows programs, but not generally
Linux programs.]

For another example, some run Firefox under Wine to deal with things
like flash. So even then impact doesn't exceed what Firefox would
permit. (And if wine isn't running, an errant java process isn't either.)

You can run different wine programs under different profiles
(WINE_PREFIX IIRC), so you could isolate different Wine (Windows)
programs from each other.

Worst case, IIRC, apt-get --reinstall install wine1.x, would restore
'stock' -windows- system files.

Doesn't mean one errant running program won't botch files (like media
files) in a mapped drive (e.g. to your NAS), impacting another wine
program with similarly mapped drives, but that's still wine programs
operating upon data (media) files, not Linux system files. [Unless
you're cron running some bash script generated by the wine program, etc.]

I have found WineHQ, e.g. https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks , useful.
FWIW. YMMV.


On 07/12/2017 12:01 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Hi, I'm Jeff, and I'm a former Windows user (this is the part where
> everyone says "Hi Jeff")...
> 
> Back in the day when I switched from Windows to Linux, I managed to
> replace most of my Windows software with Linux equivalents (or
> better-thans).  But one program I haven't been able to replace is a
> music manager called Media Monkey.  Wonderful piece of software, that. 
> I haven't been able to find something in Linux that does all that MM did
> in one convenient package.
> 
> So I'm asking the group for advice or recommendations...
> 
> What I need is something that:
> 
> 1) Looks up album info, cover art, song titles, etc., on the internet
> and renames the song files accordingly (and embeds the cover art in the
> file's tag info),
> 2) Converts from any format to 320bit mp3 (usually from FLAC),
> 3) Moves the whole album from the working folder to my NAS's music
> folder, and follows the naming structure that I specify (i.e. Album
> Artist/Album Name (year)/Track# - Artist - Title.mp3, etc.),
> 4) Plays the music.
> 
> I know a lot of you are wondering why I would convert FLAC to mp3..  it
> seems the radio in the truck can't handle FLAC that well (it could be
> the USB stick, not sure yet...)
> 
> In the Windows world, MM does this and keeps on smiling.  But I have yet
> to find something in Linux that does the same.  Clementine comes close,
> but the file management isn't that great.
> 
> I've never used Wine before, so I'm also wondering if this would be a
> good cheat or not.  I'm concerned about letting a Windows program mess
> around with the Linux file system, though...
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to help out a poor recovering Windows user?
> 
> 
> 
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