Free easy to play guitar songs software for linux

last played is a small script that shows the last 5 files a mounted iPod shuffle played in shuffle mode.
Since you look at this page, you probably own an iPod shuffle. If you are like me, you like to upload new music on it, set it to shuffle mode and enjoy. Yeah!
Until there comes a song you really love or hate, but your trusty shuffle lacks a display, so there is no way to know (other than to memorize some lyrics and google for them) which song it was.
Luckily, there is an easier way: last played is a small python script that will put the last 5 (or whatever you tell it on command line) files you listened to on screen. Now you can simply delete songs you hate and give 5 stars to songs you love.
I recommend putting the last.py on the root directory of your shuffle. You can then start it from there using
python last.py
on the command line.
last played is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Version restrictions:
- Since the iPod shuffle recreates its shuffle sequence whenever the end of the current shuffle sequence is reached, the script might return wrong results now and then. I have not yet tested it thoroughly enough to confirm it, sorry. However, this should not happen too often.
Enhancements:
- This version now (probably) finds a shuffle under MS Windows, and detects if the sequential mode was set, showing the right files in this case.

AmaroK now playing is a script that displays the song you are currently playing with amaroK.

Add it to, /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts

Then add it to command aliases

Konversation > settings > command aliases

For example: alias: np ;replacement: /exec np

playtab can print chords of songs in a tabular fashion.

SYNOPSIS

playtab [options] [file ...]

Options:

-transpose +/-N transpose all songs
-output XXX set outout file
-ident show identification
-help brief help message
-verbose verbose information

OPTIONS

-transpose amount

Transposes all songs by amount. This can be + or - 11 semitones.

When transposing up, chords will de represented sharp if necessary; when transposing down, chords will de represented flat if necessary. For example, chord A transposed +1 will become A-sharp, but when transposed -11 it will become B-flat.

-output file

Designates file as the output file for the program.

-help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-ident

Prints program identification.

-verbose

More verbose information.

file

Input file(s).

The input for playtab is plain ASCII. It contains the chords, the division in bars, with optional annotations.

An example:

!t Blue Bossa

Bossanova
=
| c-9 ... | f-9 ... | d% . g7 . | c-9 ... |
| es-9 . as6 . | desmaj7 ... | d% . g7 . | c-9 . d% g7 |

The first line, !t denotes the title of the song. Each song must start with a title line.

The title line may be followed by one or more !s, subtitles, for example to indicate the composer.

The text "Bossanova" is printed below the title and subtitle.

The "=" indicates some vertical space.

The next lines show the bars of the song. In the first bar is the c-9 chord (Cminor9), followed by three dots. The dots indicate that this chord is repeated for all 4 beats of this bar. In the 3rd bar each chord take two beats: d5% (d half dim), a dot, g7 and another dot.

Run playtab with -h or --help for the syntax of chords.

If you use "=" followed by some text, the printout is indented and the text sticks out to the left. With this you can tag groups of bars, for example the parts of a song that must be played in a certain order. For example:

!t Donna Lee
!s Charlie Parker

Order: A B A B

= A
| as . | f7 . | bes7 . | bes7 . |
| bes-7 . | es7 . | as . | es-7 D7 |
| des . | des-7 . | as . | f7 . |
| bes7 . | bes7 . | bes-7 . | es7 . |

= B
| as . | f7 . | bes7 . | bes7 . |
| c7 . | c7 . | f- . | c7#9 . |
| f- . | c7 . | f- . | aso . |
| as f7 | bes-7 es7 | as - | bes-7 es7 |

You can modify the width of the bars with a !w control. Standard width of a beat is 30. !w +5 increases the width to 35. !w 25 sets it to 25. You get the idea. You can also change the height with !h (default is 15) and margin with !m (default width is 40).

You can transpose an individual song with !x amount, where amount can range from -11 to +11, inclusive.

Look at the examples, that is (currently) the best way to get grip on what the program does.

Oh, I almost forgot: it can print guitar chord diagrams as well. See "bluebossa", "sophisticatedlady" and some others.

Have fun, and let me know your ideas!

INPUT SYNTAX

Notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, B.
Raised with # or suffix is, e.g. A#, Ais.
Lowered with b or suffix s or es, e.g. Bes, As, Eb.

Chords: note + optional modifiers.
Chord modifiers Meaning [examples]
--------------------------------------------------------------
nothing major triad [C]
- or min or m minor triad [Cm Fmin Gb-]
+ or aug augmented triad [Caug B+]
o or 0 or dim diminished triad [Co D0 Fdim]
--------------------------------------------------------------
maj7 major 7th chord [Cmaj7]
% half-diminished 7 chord [C%]
6,7,9,11,13 chord additions [C69]
--------------------------------------------------------------
# raise the pitch of the note to a sharp [C11#9]
b lower the pitch of the note to a flat [C11b9]
--------------------------------------------------------------
no substract a note from a chord [C9no11]
--------------------------------------------------------------
Whitespace and () may be used to avoid ambiguity, e.g. C(#9) C#9 C#(9)

Other: Meaning
--------------------------------------------------------------
. Chord space
- Rest
% Repeat
/ Powerchord constructor [D/G D/E-]
--------------------------------------------------------------

DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4, *.GP3, GTP) viewer, player that works under Linux, Solaris, BSD and any other Operational System that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

Guitar Mode Maker is a software will help the guitar player learn scales, modes, chords, and create new scales. Designed to be easy enough for the beginner and comprehensive for the advanced user! Learn Chords and Scales. Review the Chord and Scale List for GMM 3.0. Over 750 Chords and Scales Included in the trial installation!
This program also has the capability of the user sharing their scales with others through a new and improved, unique scale file (.GS2 file)!
Guitar Mode Maker 1.0 for linux comes with hundreds of scales, chords and modes to help you learn! Guitar Mode Maker 1.0 is available only for Linux.
Additionally for BASS GUITAR PLAYERS, Bass Guitar Mode Maker! Now bass players can have all the scales, modes and chords too! Bass Guitar Mode Maker 3.0 available for download now!
Main features:
- Easy scale creation by clicking on the fretboard, note list or piano keyboard
- Easy scale transposition
- Ability to save Guitar Scale files, even in trial version
- Ability to hear your scale played by acoustic guitar, 12-string or piano
- 750 Scales and chords TO START WITH!
- Ability to print guitar scale on printer!
- Easier to use interface (Screen Shot)

Randomplay is a command-line based shuffle music player that remembers songs between sessions.
Randomplay plays your music collection (or execute any arbitrary commands on any arbitrary filetypes) in random order, remembering songs played across sessions.
Randomplay also has many features to make command-line music playing more convenient, including recursive regexp searching for tracks and the ability to specify a certain number of tracks, bytes, or minutes to play.
Randomplay will also generate a list of music files to be loaded onto a portable music player device. It includes a random weighting feature, so your favorite songs are more likely to come up in the random shuffle.
Randomplay is a convenient tool for the user who does everything in an xterm window or console and is constantly devising complex find/grep/sed command lines to play just the right set of songs.
Following are some example invocations of randomplay to give a general sense of its flexibility; see the manpage for more complete information:
Play all ogg files in dir1 and dir2 under your home directory, and dir3 under the base directory specified in ~/.randomplayrc, which have not been played for 15 days in random order with 5 seconds between songs:
randomplay --days=15 --pause=5 --player ogg=ogg123 ~/dir1 ~/dir2 =dir3
Play all ogg, wav, and mp3 files under the current directory (or base directory, if specified in .randomplayrc file) which have not been played for 10 days in alphabetical order, switch the skip to next song keystroke to G or g and quit to q or c:
randomplay --norandom --key next=Gg --key quit=qc
Play all files under the current directory with the strings "frisell" and "bill" in the filename, in any order, (saves having to hunt down a file in a hierarchy), ignore whether the file has been played recently, but stop playing after 15 minutes:
randomplay --regexp frisell bill -0 --maxtime=15m
Display 100M worth of music files, randomly sorted, without recording the history of tracks, using the default music directory (or the current directory if not specified):
randomplay --maxsize=100M --noremember --names-only
Play the last 10 songs played over again:
randomplay --last=10
Play songs test.ogg, test2.ogg, test3.ogg, and all files in musicdir in random order without weighting preferred songs:
randomplay --noweight test.ogg test2.ogg test3.ogg musicdir
Copy 128M of songs into a Neuros Audio Player, using positron:
positron add randomplay --names-only --maxsize=128M
Pick a random jpeg or png file that has not been displayed in the last week from the images directory and display it with ImageMagick display command:
randomplay --player jpg=display --player gif=display --days 7 ~/images
Enhancements:
- New keystrokes for pausing and displaying all available keystrokes while playing were added.
- UTF-8 output for MP3 tags can now be disabled.
- A bug that prevented randomplay from working with sox was fixed.
- The documentation was improved.

LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. LINGOT is easy to use, accurate, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, its configurability gives it a more general character. (Tuning another instruments has not been tested).
It looks like an analogic tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note --found automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency--, indicating that note and its frequency.
The note will be found automatically, since the program hasnt any manual function mode (indicating the note to tune manually), for mantaining its general purpose.
We recommend using the tuner in conjunction with a sound mixer for selecting the desired recording source and the signal recording levels.
Main features:
- Accurate.
- Easy to use. Just plug in your instrument and run tuner.
- Very configurable via GUI. Its possible to change any parameter while the program is running, without editing any file.
- It works in an automatic way. It isnt necessary specify the note to tune; the program guesses it.
- Its free software. It has GPL license.
- Tuning other instruments than guitars is possible. Since this program guesses the note you are playing, it can be used to tune a piano, a bass, a violin, etc.
Enhancements:
- Files have been reorganized to a more "GNU-like" structure.
- Multi-lingual support has been added.

Audio::Play is an interface for Audio::Data to hardware.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Data;
use Audio::Play;

$audio = Audio::Data->new(...)

$svr = Audio::Play->new;

$svr->play($audio);

Audio::Play is an wrapper class which loads Audio::Play::$^O i.e. a per-platform driver.

Each class provides the following interface:

$svr = $class->new([$wait])

Create the server and return an object. $wait is supposed to determine whether to wait for device (and for how long) but is currently not really working for many devices.

$svr->rate($rate)

Set sample rate (if possible) to $rate.

$rate = $svr->rate;

Return sample rate.

$svr->play($audio[,$gain])

Play $audio via the hardware. Should take steps to match hardware and datas sampling rate.

$svr->gain($mult)

Set gain (if possible).

$svr->flush

Wait for playing to complete.

$svr->DESTROY

Destructor flushes and closes hardware.