Free music artists software for linux

Yahoo::Music::Ratings is a method for retrieving a Yahoo! Music members song ratings.

SYNOPSIS

use Yahoo::Music::Ratings;

my $ratings = new Yahoo::Music::Ratings( {
memberName => yahooMusicMemberName,
} );

# Fetch an arrayRef of all yahooMusicMemberName song ratings
# this may take a couple minutes...
my $arrayRef = $ratings->getRatings();

# Print out a nice tab seperated version so that we can easily
# read the list in a spreadsheet program (and then filter by
# artists etc). tab_output() will output in artists alphabetical
# order.
print $ratings->tab_output();

This module provides a way to retrieve a users list of song ratings from Yahoo!s Music service, including the LaunchCast and Unliminted services.

As Yahoo! do not provide an offical feed for a member to download their ratings, the methods used within this module are subject to change and simply may not work tomorrow. However at the time of writing this README i would suspect the methods used should be stable for atleast a few days :)

Music daemon(musicd) is a music playing server that supports multiple formats through plugins and multiple playlists. Musicd supports plugins to enable playing of different audioformats. The plugin-api is quite similiar to one that the popular XMMS uses. Currently XMMS-plugins are not directly supported, but if I find the time, Ill make a meta-plugin to support them.
The first reason to make the player a server is to make it possible to use many different frontends and even at the same time. You can use a GUI if you like them, but anything it can do, can be done from commandline too.
The second reason is to make sure that the GUI or X does not crash the whole player. I have found that many software with a GUI tend to crash. With musicd the player is unaffected by this and you can start the interface again.
Main features:
- Musicd has its own simple text-based protocol for player-frontend communication.
- Support for unlimited number of playlists, songs per playlist and frontends connect at the same time
- Support for both IPv4 and IPv6. Also UNIX-sockets are supported for local connections.
- Currently supported audioformats: mp3 (ffmpeg), ogg vorbis (vorbisfile) and mods (libmikmod).
- Support for OSS and Solaris ouput.
- Musicd has been tested on x86 Linux and Solaris 9.
Enhancements:
- Calling play while already playing shouldnt cause deadlocks anymore
- Load command on a file that has too long line as the last line locked up the daemon, this shouldnt happen anymore
- Invalid id3tags shouldnt give random data anymore
- Invalid filenames shouldnt crash the player anymore

musicTree is a java application that allows you to view and play your MP3 files from a tree which sorts albums by artist. It allows you to easily navigate your music collection and play albums at random, to play all the songs by a specific artist etc.

Musictree was born because I needed a way to easily sort the mp3 albums I had on my computer. One of the problems of using the normal filesystem to browse your mp3s is that as soon as you get more than 50 albums it becomes difficult to get an overall idea of what your options are. Musictree groups music albums by Artist, allowing you to have only entry at the top level of the tree for a whole lot of albums by the same artist (for example I have about 30 Beatles albums).

Once you have represented the album in a tree (grouped by artist) it can be selected and played with one click (instead of looking for the playlist inside the directory). Musictree also allows you to play a random album (this is an excellent way to get acquainted with your music collection).

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.

KmusicdB is a music information manager. The GUI of KmusicdB is written for KDE and the backend is to a PostgreSQL server.
KmusicdB enables you to take your collection of music (CDs, vinyl, whatever) and organize it for browsing and searching. KmusicdB has a variety of reports (see below). There is CDDB support (with search) which makes adding CDs a breeze. Its main goals are stability, speed, ease of use, and lots of features.
libdbmusic is the music database library which enables KmusicdB to perform actions on the database. It is available as a separate library for developers who are interested. libdbmusic is required to build KmusicdB.
Main features:
libdbmusic:
- Create and connect to any local or remote PostgreSQL database.
- Backup and restore databases.
- Add, retrieve, delete, update artists, titles, tracks and categories (boxset, format, genre, label, method, type).
- Lyrics.
- A separate reporting class for creating and running custom reports.
- Multi-user compatible.
- Custom QListView that automatically sorted numbers and alphanumerics correctly.
- Populate QStringList or QListView with artists, titles, tracks or categories.
- Simple statistical functions (sums).
KmusicdB:
- A clean and stable interface.
- Customizable main display.
- Customizable startup options. Customizable defaults for artists, titles, databases, CDDB, etc.
- Flexible design, most popups are implemented non-modal.
- Adding, editing or deleting artists.
- Adding, editing, deleting titles (including album cover pic).
- Adding, editing or deleting tracks. Easy to use editor. Lyric support.
- Add/edit/delete boxset/format/genre/label/method/type/bands to explore. (Type is for Single, LP, etc., Format is for MiniDisc, DVD, CD, Vinyl, etc., Method is Live, Studio, etc.)
- Ability to generate customizable reports (sort, colors, restrict by collected, not collected, dates, font)
- Reports include: Artist, Collection, Date Range, Bands To Explore, Statistics, Tracks By Title, Titles By Artist, Top Titles and Custom
- The statistics report has a LOT of information on your database, including sums of artists, titles, tracks and length of tracks. Also included a listing of each category
- Also are 2 methods of searching your database.
- CDDB support (CDDBP, HTTP and proxy) to automatically add, submit and update your CDs via the internet.
- CDDB searching if you do not have the CD or its on another media.
- Local CDDB lookup via KSCD.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave) and managing playlists.
Music Player Daemon makes a great desktop player with frontend options (Qt, GTK, ncurses, Windows, and Web clients are available). It is also appropriate as a console player that is scriptable, and is especially useful if X is restarted frequently.
A set of rapid development tools for clients are being developed and include a C library, Python module, PHP class, Perl module, and Java Class.
The goals are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements, to be stable and flexible, and easy to interface.
MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients interact with MPD over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation; to use MPD, you need to install a MPD client:
Web Clients
- phpMp - Web interface written in PHP
- phpMp2 - Another web interface written in PHP
Graphical Clients
- gmpc - Gnome Music Player Client
- kmp - Graphical interface written in Qt
- MPDCon - A GNUstep Graphical interface
- glurp - Graphical interface written in GTK+
- WMmp - Window Maker dockapp
- gtk2mp - Try gmpc first! Graphical interface written in Gtk+
Command Line Clients
- ncmpc - ncurses (command line) client
- mpc - (Scriptable) command line client
- bashmp - client written as bash aliases and functions
Miscellaneous Clients
- mpcstick - Linux joystick client
- arthist - Perl client to generate a web blog of MPD activity

Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player. Goggles Music Manager allows you to easily manage your music collection.

Each song in your collection is organized according to Artist and Album. As of now, Goggles Music Manager supports Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.