Free music software for linux

The iPod Music Liberator allows you to copy music from your iPod to any computer, filling in a missing feature of iTunes. You see, iTunes only allows for a one way transfer of music from your computer to your iPod.
But what if you want to move music to another authorized computer? What if you want to make a backup of your music? What if your computer crashes and you lose all of the music on your computer? What if you buy a new computer and need to move your music? What if ... ? Use the iPod Music Liberator for all of your iPod music copying needs.
Main features:
Organized Copying
- Simply copying music from your iPod to your computer is not enough. The iPod Music Liberator allows you to automatically organize your music into folders labeled by artist and album. The iPod Music Liberator also allows you to place all of your music into one folder. Combined with the powerful searching capabilities detailed below, you can organize your music into folders any way you like.
Intelligent Copying
- Dont waste your time copying songs that are already on your computer. iPod Music Liberators intelligent copying feature allows you to copy only the updated songs from your iPod to your computer. This is crucial for people that do regular backups or want to keep syncronized music collections.
Powerful Searching
- Maybe you only want to copy songs from a specific artist, album, or genre. iPod Music Liberators powerful searching capabilities allows you to search "on-the-fly." This means your search is refined with every key you type just like in iTunes.
- Dont let the searching power end there. You can also simply click on any table header to get an alphabetical or reverse alphabetical listing.
Simple User Interface
- Dont let complex user interfaces get in the way of your productivity. The iPod Music Liberator has a simple user interface to allow easy navigation.
Quick Song Listing
- Why wait for a program to find the songs on your iPod when you could be copying songs? The iPod Music Liberator uses the iPods own internal database to quickly list your songs.
Music Player
- Dont have iTunes installed to play music directly from your iPod? Let the iPod Music Liberator do it for you. Whether youre refreshing your memory about which song you want to copy or playing music for friends, the iPod Music Liberator can directly play your music from your iPod.

pita is client-server music player. A daemon process, pitad, maintains a queue of files which it plays through the sound system.

Various clients manipulate the daemon, adding songs, moving through the queue, etc.

Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition environment.

Common Music produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of musical structure into a variety of control protocols for sound synthesis and display.

Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmboxs playback from a panel.
Advantages that this applet has over using the icon Rhythmbox puts in the notification area include:
- One-click access to the main operations needed during playback, without needing to use a context menu.
- Display of the current playing time without requiring a mouse-over.
- Display of the current songs album in the song information.
Music Applet currently supports the following music players:
- Banshee
- Rhythmbox
Music Applet is the successor to Rhythmbox Applet.

mCube Music Manager project is a digital music manager. The target is to let user manage and choose music to listen with the comfort and feeling of browsing physical compact disc and with the power of computer aided search, sort and categorization.
Main features:
- Folders synchronization: add a folder to mCube Library and you never need to worry about it anymore.
- Tagging System allows to build a categorization that evolves with the library and with user needs. Tag Cosmos allow you to navigate through your tags easily
- Many different Views for displaying Artists, Albums, Tracks or your Compilations. You can build your own page with the view you like in the way you like.
- Quick search box to filter all library a la iTunes/Firefox/Thunderbird
- Edit Album Information and automatically update file tag
- Easy filter for different album types (Live, Sountrack...) and support for multiple CDs albums
- Export selected songs or albums to an external folder: youll never need to use File Managers anymore!
- Play songs or albums with default system player.
- mCube is open source and, of course, free!

Music::Scales can supply necessary notes / offsets for musical scales.

SYNOPSIS

use Music::Scales;

my @maj = get_scale_notes(Eb); # defaults to major
print join(" ",@maj); # "Eb F G Ab Bb C D"
my @blues = get_scale_nums(bl); # bl,blu,blue,blues
print join(" ",@blues); # "0 3 5 6 7 10"
my %min = get_scale_offsets (G,mm,1); # descending melodic minor
print map {"$_=$min{$_} "} sort keys %min; # "A=0 B=-1 C=0 D=0 E=-1 F=0 G=0"

Given a keynote A-G(#/b) and a scale-name, will return the scale, either as an array of notenames or as a hash of semitone-offsets for each note.

METHODS

get_scale_nums($scale[,$descending])

returns an array of semitone offsets for the requested scale, ascending/descending the given scale for one octave. The descending flag determines the direction of the scale, and also affects those scales (such as melodic minor) where the notes vary depending upon the direction. Scaletypes and valid values for $scale are listed below.

get_scale_notes($notename[,$scale,$descending,$keypref])

returns an array of notenames, starting from the given keynote. Enharmonic equivalencies (whether to use F# or Gb, for instance) are calculated based on the keynote and the scale. Basically, it attempts to do the Right Thing if the scale is an 8-note one, (the 7th in G harmonic minor being F# rather than Gb, although G minor is a flat key), but for any other scales, (Chromatic, blues etc.) it picks equivalencies based upon the keynote. This can be overidden with $keypref, setting to be either # or b for sharps and flats respectively. Cruftiness abounds here.

get_scale_offsets($notename[,$scale,$descending,$keypref])

as get_scale_notes(), except it returns a hash of notenames with the values being a semitone offset (-1, 0 or 1) as shown in the synopsis.

get_scale_MIDI($notename,$octave[,$scale,$descending])

as get_scale_notes(), but returns an array of MIDI note-numbers, given an octave number (-1..9).

get_scale_PDL($notename,$octave[,$scale,$descending])

as get_scale_MIDI(), but returns an array of PDL-format notes.

is_scale($scalename)

returns true if $scalename is a valid scale name used in this module.

Top Music allows you to publish music (albums, songs, sound tracks, rankings, artists, etc.) to create an online music portal.

It features: A-Z list of bands; band information (name, photo, genre, biography, etc.); discography; album information (title, year, covers, band, etc.); albums songs lists; song information (title, album, number, lyrics, etc.); the ability to listen to tracks; searching; ranking lists (most visited, most voted, etc.); a voting system; an uploads system; themes; an easy configuration screen; many blocks; multi-language support; easy installation; and a support forum, mailing lists, and Sourceforge.net support (CVS, files, etc.)

Random Phase Music Generator is a small program that generates random phase music. Random music has been around for a long time (from Mozarts musical dice game to John Cages chance music), but phase music was invented rather recently by Steve Reich.

It would be interesting to combine those ideas, so I have written this program as a tool for further experiments. Type xmkmf and then make to compile the program. LessTif users, replace xmkmf with mxmkmf.

If your xmkmf is broken, you have to install manually. Edit Makefile.man (examples for Solaris, AIX and LessTif are provided). Make sure INCS and LIBS are linking to the correct directories, then type make -f Makefile.man to compile.

Run phase from an X terminal. Some users might need to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the Motif libraries. After starting up the program, you can use the File menu to load or save the panel settings, and the Music menu to play the generated phase music or save it to a MIDI file.