Free artists for humanity software for linux

Last.fm Suggests for amaroK is a script that lets you quickly check what artists are similar to those that you already have in your playlist. The script uses last.fms suggestions feature without making you leave the amaroK interface.

This script will create links directly to the Last.fm page of the artist, and you dont have to be currently listening to anything to query last.fm for similar artists. Also, you can have the script list only artists that are not already in your collection... to make it even easier to find new music.

The default number of links to show is 12, but this can be changed using the configure option in the script manager.

Installation:

Use the built-in script installer for amarok on the tarball.

Kopete Now Listening for Amarok script will update your Kopete status to "Amarok is playing title -artist", and set your global photo to current album cover.

What I did is putting together all the contributed script on my blog and put it as an amarok script.

Data is fetched from audioscrobbler web services. In this version it shows nine views: top artists, top tracks, top albums, systems recomendations and recent tracks, etc. Data is updated every five minutes or clicking on refresh button.

Use: First write your last.fm user name on the input box and click the apply button. After a moment, use arrows button for select the view.

EarCandy is a music juke-box that presents music collections in the somewhat novel way of artist,album, title regardless of the underlying directory structure.

This is the way that iNoize, a p2p music sharing company, presented music. I worked at iNoize for 18 months and really liked the approach, unfortunately, I do not like web based juke boxes ;-) (I think web uis are too limiting for the user and the developer).

EarCandy is written in Python using (currently) the Gtk toolkit for the user interface. I will eventually switch to AnyGui for the ui once they release a stable version.

EarCandy uses an external player to play tracks. Under Unix/Linux the only player currently supported is xmms. It needs to be running in order to play music, ie EarCandy will no start it for you. And under Windows, winamp is supported.

The main script to run is earcandy.py, cd into the directory and ./earcandy.py to run the application. Windows users, just run earcandy.exe.

The first time it runs, it will ask for the path to youre music files. Enter the path and click on OK. It will then scan that path for mp3 files and add them to an index. It saves the index file, so it only has to this once. You will be able to rescan the directory if you add new tracks to rebuild the index.

The main window consists of 4 list boxes. In order:

* Collections Eventually you will be able to add external collections and reference the music within. They are listed here.
* Artists is the list of all artists in the collection.
* Albums is the list of albums for the selected artist.
* Tracks is the list of tracks for the selected album.

To play an album or track, simple double click on it. There is also a context menu when the right mouse button is pressed on a album or track. For albums, this menu contains items to play the album and enqueue the album. It is similar for tracks.

Enqueing allows a album or track to be added to the list of songs being played in the music player without disturbing what is being played.