Free musepack software for linux

Makepack project is a Makefile which together with a settings file and some simple rule files are able to download, compile and install software for your Slackware installation.

As the installation is done using checkinstall a Slackware package is also created at the same time.

The big strenght of makepack is that it has mechanisms to keep track of dependencies when downloading and installing software.

Exemple:

$ make list

Numeric: Python package for scientific computing
SDL_image: Image file loading library
SDL_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library.
SDL_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications.
angrydd: Angry, Drunken Dwarves, falling blocks puzzle game
atlas: Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
easytag: graphical (gtk) mp3 id3 tag editor
flac: library for Free Lossless Audio Codec
id3lib: library for mp3 id3 tags
ms-sys: Utility for writing microsoft compatible boot records
numpy: Python package for scientific computing
pygame: A set of Python modules designed for writing games
qemu: Generic processor emulator
smpeg: SDL MPEG Player Library

Whats New in This Release:

Upgraded the following rules:
MPlayer to version 1.0rc1
MPlayer_win_codecs to version 20061022, also
placed this file on a mirror as previos
versions has been removed from mplayerhq.
dvdauthor to version 0.6.14
gpgme to version 1.1.4
gphoto2 to version 2.3.1
jack to version 0.103.0
kqemu to version 1.3.0pre9, also changed dependencies so that
kqemu now depends on qemu instead of qemu depending on
kqemu. This might make sense for future versions of qemu
which might use kvm instead of kqemu.
qemu to version 0.9.0, qemu will not compile with gcc 4 which is
included with Slackware 12. Also, once compiled it does not
seem very stable.
lame to version 3.97
libdv to version 1.0.0
libdvdread to version 0.9.7
libggi to version 2.2.2
libgphoto2 to version 2.3.1
libgii to version 1.0.2
libgpg-error to version 1.5
libquicktime to version 1.0.0
libmpeg3 to version 1.7
libtheora to version 1.0alpha7
mjpegtools to version 1.9.0rc2
mpeg2dec to version 0.4.1
mplayerplug-in to version 3.40
nas to version 1.9
sylpheed to version 2.4.4
transcode to version 1.0.3
valgrind to version 3.2.3
xvidcore to version 1.1.3

New rules. Support for the following applications:
FileRunner http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Image-ExifTool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
bfr http://www.glines.org/wiki/bfr
cdlabelgen http://www.aczoom.com/tools/cdinsert/
cstream http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
cvsgraph http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/
ddd http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
However, ddd does not compile on Slackware 12
dvgrab http://www.kinodv.org/
epstool http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
gscanbus http://gscanbus.berlios.de/
gtimer http://www.k5n.us/gtimer.php
jhead http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
kdiff3 http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
nedit http://www.nedit.org/
mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/
pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/
rpc.rstatd http://rstatd.sourceforge.net/
saytime http://www.acme.com/software/saytime/
tor http://tor.eff.org/
wine http://www.winehq.org/

Support for the following libraries:
libavc1394 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/
libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
libevent http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
libmpcdec http://www.musepack.net/
libraw1394 http://www.linux1394.org/
libiec61883 http://www.linux1394.org/
onig http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
x264 http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

Wildcards in REMOVE_FROM_PACKAGE now also works with newer
versions of tar.
This version of makepack is supposed to work with
Slackware 12. Unfortunately ddd does not compile on
Slackware 12 because of broken header files from X.org or
lesstif. If you really want ddd on Slackware 12 there are
instructions out there on how to modify those header files.

MPyRe (Music Python Ripper) is a Python front- end to cdparanoia, LAME, Musepack, and Ogg Vorbis and FLAC encoders. It has support ID3 and APEv2 tagging.
Main features:
- Reads the CDDB server and grabs disc info
- Rips the CD with CDParanoia in secure ripping mode
- Encodes the Wav files to MP3
- Adjusts output levels with replaygain (MP3gain for MP3s)
- Writes ID3v1 and Apev2 tags to MP3 Files
- Renames the files to match the track # and song title

abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg Vorbis (the default), MP3, FLAC, Ogg Speex, or MPP (Musepack) encoder.
It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to the desired format, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command.
It supports multiple output in a single CD read, the creation of a single track from a CD, resume operation, CD concatenation, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with LAME), parallelization, SMP, proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, distributed encoding via distmp3, and more.
Enhancements:
- Added support for MPP/MP+(Musepack) encoding. Although I am trying to
get 2.2 for Debian Sarge release, mpc seems safe enough to introduce. See
corecodec.org for code.
- Some POSIX shell corrections (making the code more portable). Thanks to
Guillem Jover for pointing the problem out.
- CDYEAR is also passed to do_move(), so one can use it for sorting the
directories.
- Small MacOS X fix, allowing directories with "()" to work. Thanks to Evan
Jones.
- On the MacOS X, I still do not know if abcde works correctly. If does
not, please, drop a note. Or else.
- DOSPLAYLIST also changes "/" with "".
- DATA tracks are now excluded from the ripping process using internally
the cdparanoia "-Q" query option. If using another ripper, it does not
work (at least there is no support for them in abcde)
(Closes: #112692, #117412).
- New "0" choice for "None of the above" has been introduced. If selected, a
template is created and the user encouraged to edit it (Closes: #147683).
- New options for when the PLAYLIST already exists: erase, append or keep.
- Bug fixes along the code:
- abcde.1 corrections and additions
- abcde corrections and code reorganization. abcde now exits earlier if
some of the options are incompatible. Also the actions are set as
variables earlier, so we use less calls to external tools.
- abcde.conf additions
- The GENRE is munged now in its own mungegenre function, so that no more
upper-to-lowercase is done (forced) except if the default is used.
- Examples added to the tarball and /usr/share/doc/abcde/examples with two
scripts to make abcde kind-of-a ripper daemon.
- Changed to experimental to have an stable 2.1.x version in Sarge.
- Add CDDB information to Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files (Closes: #265358).
- Added INTERACTIVE option. Set it to "n" and there you go, without user
interaction.
- Changes normalize to normalize-audio (Closes: #267053)
- Copes with wav files being erased by the ripping tool.
- Small patch to support ()s in the path under MacOSX. Thanks to Evan Jones
for noticing and sending the patch.
- Added -w for COMMENT seed. Used to give a comment to a given CD.
- Option "-t " added to modify the numbering from a starting point
(Closes: #95828). Geez! That is low bug number...
- Added -T to modify also the tag entries on the songs. Currently available
for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis.
- Removes trailing spaces (Closes: #280382).
- TRACKNAME now combines multi-lines from long CDDB entries.
- debian/rules:
- s/dh_installmanpages/dh_installman/

Liblicense is a library for managing license metadata, in particular CC licensing information.
The idea of this library started out on the IRC channel, in a discussion on how to best help boost the community of software developers working with things related to CC - mostly the metadata format.
Basically, the idea is to write a portable C library that manages metadata for CC licenses, and a bunch of other licenses of interest to the community.
The library will produce licensing information based on the specifications of calling libraries and programs. In addition to generating text for specific licenses, it will also allow an application to enumerate which licenses are currently available and provide descriptive text for each license, and for license features. It should also provide an easy way to specify "verify at" URLs.
The benefit of this library is that applications linking to it can correctly offer licensing choices, and these choices can be transparently updated through package managers as license versions are updated. Human readable descriptions will also be internationalized, preferably using the same .po files used by the CC web site. Hence liblicense will take advantage of package updating and i18n systems to allow applications to always provide c current and correct licensing choices and license text.
Part of the project is also to provide wrappers for the library for other languages, and to help external developers add metadata support to their projects. A good start will probably be to wrap the library for Python, and use it for ccpublisher.
We will also integrate a module system so that libraries can be used to embed and extract metadata in/from common formats.
As liblicense itself deals only with text strings, we can also make GUI libraries to provide dialogs which present these strings to the user in desktop or web applications. This layering ensures that such dialogs present consistent licensing choices.
Enhancements:
- This is the first version to feature desktop integration.
- It now features Gnome Nautilus integration: licenses are displayed and can be written from within Nautilus.
- The integration also takes advantage of emblems to visibly display files as licensed.
- Additionally, it features new modules supporting reading from and writing licenses to MSOffice (pre-2007), FLAC, Ogg+FLAC, MusePack, and SMIL.

Olive is (yet another) GNU/Linux Live distribution. Olive LiveCD distirbution offers quite a good deal of new technologies, hardly witnessed ever before, as well as some of the more common pieces of software. Its size is approx. 110MiB, yet it allows a lot of software to be used.
Olives whole point is to display how easy to use Linux may be, yet without losing any of the features required for heavy-duty work. Its also supposed to show various unusual new technologies, not widely known or accepted.
Please note that Olive was, partially, built as graduation work at SPSST Panska. Once presented, a release built specifically for school will be available upon personal request.
Main features:
Media
Olive features MPlayer for playing of your favourite movies. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, Matroska files. You can also watch Theora, MPEG4 (DivX/XviD), Real Media, DVD, VideoCD, SVCD movies. MPlayer also supports various filters for better experience. Mencoder is bundled with MPlayer and it allows you to encode movies into virtually any of the formats mentioned above.
Although you can use MPlayer to play your music, theres also an application that was written just for that: Audacious. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (now discontinued), which is in turn fork of the very famous XMMS. It supports various audio formats, including MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WAV files and Windows Media, as well as many sequenced formats including MIDI, and a host of different module formats. In addition, Audacious uses Winamp-like skins (and supports Winamp "classic" skins), to provide a familiar and friendly user interface.
You can of course view photos and pictures using GQview, an intuitive image browser. It can generate thumbnails of your pictures, its capable of reading EXIF metadata, has advanced image search function and much more.
Internet
The Internet is part of everyday life for all of us; was it not for the Internet, you wouldnt be able to read this webpage. Olive features Mozilla Firefox web browser, currently the most common web browser used on Linux. For browsing in console, ELinks is a must-have. There is also Sylpheed e-mail client, small, fast and incredibly useful.
These days, Instant Messaging is a common part of our lives. Therefore, Olive sports GAIM2 (beta2) multi-protocol instant messaging client, which is compatibile with protocols such as ICQ, MSN Messenger,Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber or Gadu-Gadu. There is also a client dedicated solely to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is X-Chat. As usually, there are console alternatives, which would be CenterICQ and irssi.
You can use Kismet to look for Wi-Fi hotspots. Basic utilities such as telnet or ssh client and server (Dropbear, used in various embedded systems) are not missing as well.
General work
You can perform some elementary office work in Olive as well. Although its obvious that you wont be doing most of your office work on Olive, its quite reasonable to believe it can come in handy. Therefore, Olive has AbiWord word processor to allow you to read and write documents, in various languages, in various characters, without any problem.
AbiWord can also handle various document formats, which includes Microsoft Word or WordPerfect documents. You can also export your documents into HTML for further processing or publication. You can also read Adobe PDF format using Evince, a Gnome/GTK2 document viewer whose PDF backend is based on the Poppler library, which is based on the well-known XPDF. Utilities that allow you export of PDF documents into eg. HTML are also included.
System control
Considering the differences in approach to configuration in various distributions, it may be often hard to configure several things at yet another distribution, such as the X server or preferences of software alternatives. Therefore, Olive features a trivial control panel, allowing any application to be merged in as a new panel. Although it still misses few more desired panels (most notable for network configuration), it already is quite useful for every day usage.
Eye candy
Good-looking environment always helps users to better orientate on the workplace, as well as consider the time they spend with the system more enjoyable. Transparency can be achieved using XComposite extension and xcompmgr + transset.
Though XGL and AIGLX were considered, the decision was made not to use them for their lack of testing and for the demand for support of as many platforms as possible. Please note that even XComposite may have its own issues with other software, most notably Enlightenment and MPlayer, and for this reason xcompmgr is not run by default.
Lightweight
If you consider the above features way too much for you and strive for something lighter, then you can use the FluxBox window manager. FluxBox was finetuned to look and feel as much as Enlightenment as possible, making the transition simple. There are also lightweight versions of some of the software, as mentioned above, such as irssi, CenterICQ or ELinks.
Enhancements:
- A significant bug was found in v0.1, causing ramdisk for people who have 1GiB of RAM or more broken. Please, upgrade to 0.2.

audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them.
It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer and lame to work. id3lib is optional for full functionality. Also optional are vorbis-tools and metaflac for handling other metadata. See README how/where to get that software.
Enhancements:
- MP3 metadata: switched from id3tag (V1 and V2) to id3v2 (V2 only) as suggested by Robert Turnbull

Apetag project is command line tagging tool for music files such as Monkeys Audio and Musepack using the APE 2.0 standard.
Also included are:
- tagdir.py which will tag all tracks belonging to a given album based on the freedb record. (A simple tool for retrieved such records is freedbtool.) tagdir.py will invoke the appropriate tagging tool depending on the music files present. Currently supported are apetag for mpc, metaflac for flac, and id3tag for mp3 file.
- rmid3tag.py, a simple tool for removing id3v1 tags from arbitrary files.
Usage: apetag -i input-file -m mode {-p tag=value}*
change or create APE tag for file input-file
apetag operates in one of three modes:
Mode read (default):
read and dump APE tag if present
Mode update:
change selected key,value pairs
the pairs are specified with the -p options
e.g.: -p Artist=Nosferaru -p Album=Bite
remove item Artist, change item Album to Cool
tags not listed with the -p option will remain unchanged
tags with empty vaalues are removed
Mode overwrite:
Overwrite all the tags with items specified by the -p options
tags not listed with the -p option will be removed
this mode is also used to create ape tags initially
Switch summary:
debug default ["0" ]
enable debug mode
i string default ["" ]
specify input file
m string default ["read" ]
specify mode (read, update or overwrite)
p string default ["$none$" ]
specify ape tag and value, arguments must have form tag=val, this option
can be used multiple times
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for quotes in track and album names.