External Resources

Guayadeque can call on other softwares to carry out tasks associated with your music collection provided that they are installed in your system. This way your favorite music manager can take you to the Internet and show you articles in Wikipedia, or videos in YouTube. It can burn a CD or use a different tagger. In order to do that it executes commands which you can add/change from Preferences.

By default Guayadeque uses Firefox to browse the Web. For that it uses the command:

firefox --new-tab

But if you prefer to use Chromium type:

chromium-browser --new-tab

Or if you want to use Google Chrome type:

google-chrome --new-tab

If you want to use Opera type:

opera --new-tab

KDE users will want to use Konqueror and type:

konqueror --new-tab

Guayadeque can convert your files to a different format and by default it uses SoundConverter to do this. To use just right-click on any album/tracks, go down to Commands sub-menu and choose Open with SoundConverter. This program will open and you can then choose your format and where you want to save the new tracks. This is the command Guayadeque uses:

soundconverter {tp}

But if you are a KDE user you'll prefer to use SoundKonverter. For that use the command:

soundkonverter {tp}

Here is one of my favorites: to edit cover art Guayadeque uses The Gimp through the command:

gimp {bc}

And there is obviously nothing wrong with that. But Shotwell opens very fast (it doesn't open the manager, just the editor), doesn't have an awful splash screen and opens only one window (and of course is more than enough for the kind of edit you are likely to need). I do recommend you to try it. This is what you need:

shotwell {bc}

Cool eh?

Guayadeque has his own built-in Tag Editor and is a very powerful one. But if you are missing some of the features provided by the full-blown EasyTag you can call on it easily with this command:

easytag {tp}

If you use Guayadeque Recording Capabilities you could, with the command below, record your streaming stations while listening to your own music. You will need Streamripper installed in your system. Note that you'll have to change the path used as an example to your own.

xterm -e streamripper {tp} -d /media/storage/Music Temp

Gprename is a full-featured files and folders batch rename. You can use it with Guayadeque be note that the name of a file is not the same as the tag track name. Install it from your repositories and add the following command to your ever-increasing commands library:

gprename {tp}

KDE users will want to use Krename:

krename {tp}

For burning your music onto CDs Gnome users have Brasero. To produce a date CD:

brasero {tp}

To produce an audio CD:

brasero -a {tp}

For burning your music onto CDs with k3b

To produce a data CD:

k3b --data {tp}

To produce an audio CD:

k3b --audiocd {tp}

You can delete tracks for good from within Guayadeque or just remove them from your Library database. For a bit more of fine control you have two options. The one below will send to your wastebasket the tracks you select. Note that it will only delete the tracks but not the actual folder or any other files (cue sheets, covers, etc). If you want to delete an album that is in a folder with other albums/tracks these will not be deleted:

gvfs-trash {tp}

This one will send to your wastebasket the entire folder where your track/album is. It is useful for people who follow the policy of one folder = one album. If the album you want to delete is in a folder with other albums/tracks this command will delete them all, so use with care:

gvfs-trash {bp}

When you are going to download music from Jamendo you can either download it directly or through torrents. Again by default Guayadeque uses Transmission. If you open Jamendo Preferences you'll see the simple command

transmission

To use Deluge write instead:

deluge

And to use Ktorrent:

ktorrent

In addition to use external resources like software or different browsers you can access directly to your files on your computer using the Gnome file manager Nautilus:

nautilus --browser {bp}

If you have any tools or commands you use with Guayadeque, please add them by editing this page.