Free music files software for linux

aeon is a music player that is meant to look nice and have an interface that is as easy to use as possible.

In contrast to BMPx it is entirely library based, which means you cant add individual files to it, but you have rather to add them to the library beforehand.

You can only play files from the library (akin to RhythmBox/iTunes).

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.

Amarok Music Diary creates a SQLite3 Database with every song played a day. It is possible to add a custom lyric to every database entry html-File export is provided. An example: http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/s/stifi/stifi_blog/

Usage:

The database is stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts-data/amarok-diary.db
To add lyrics, use to Context Menu Entry
For viewing it, use sqlitebrowser http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net
(To due a change in the sqlite data format you may need the CVS Version of the sqlitebrowser)

To export the database use the context menu entry. Per default only songs with the public flag set are exported. This option can be changed in the configuration file.

Stickloader is an easy solution for copying music files from your hard disk to your USB stick and re-encoding them at a lower bitrate for more efficient usage of your MP3 player disk space.

Stickloader is a LAME front end for quick filling of mp3 sticks.

MP3 files and whole directories can be easily dragged on the Stickloader window (which always stays on top) and they are automatically re-encoded using LAME and copied to your USB stick by using a temporary directory to avoid blocking the encoding process.

The programm is written with Java 5.0 using the Standard Widget Toolkit SWT and is using LAME for encoding the data. Therefore it should be system-independent and run on every system where Java, SWT and LAME are available.

Room Juice is a multi-user jukebox web application. So its basically an mpg321 / madplay / ogg123 / mikmod / xmp / whatever front end. Its designed to be simple to use and understand, and hopefully, not too difficult to install. The main way to listen to the music is locally, but by using a program such as darkice and icecast (listed below), you can stream the music to other people as well.

I wrote it because all other jukebox programs out at the time seemed inadequate in some sense or another, and I wanted something better, something that I could improve upon. Room Juice is developed under linux, but I dont see why you couldnt use it on other flavors of unix. A windows port wouldnt be easy because of the codes reliance on command line utilities ( mpg321 / mp3info / madplay / ogg123 / ogginfo / mikmod / xmp / locate ). Its GPLd though, so do what you want with the code.

Basically you hit a web page, browse/search music files, add them to the playlist, or remove them. Hit play, the music starts. Hit stop, the music stops. Hit veto and the current song is stopped, a corny sound effect plays (or doesnt if you wish), and music continues on with the next song. The fun part is that you can give permissions by IP. The default is to give myself (192.168.1.*) absolute access; control of the music player, add, remove songs, and veto. While the rest of the world has access to browse my music and add songs to my playlist. All of this can, of course, be configured.

This application is great for multiple people in the same room (or irc channel if you want to stream it). The inspiration basically came from the movie "Empire Records" where characters in the movie would play music, and each had one veto a day. Currently everybody has unlimited vetos, mainly because I find the limitation of one veto a day annoying. BTW, if anyone can record me a clean sounding Empire Records "siren/scratch" sound effect, please do so!

The Databionic MusicMiner is a browser for music based on data mining techniques. You can create MusicMaps to visualize the similarity of songs and artists. Explore your music and create playlists based on the paradigm of geographical maps!
Main features:
- Automatic parsing of a folder tree with music files (MP3, OGG, WMA, M4A, MP2, WAV).
- Automatic description of digital audio files by sound.
- Creation of MusicMaps to navigate the sound space based on the paradigm of geographical maps.
- Visual creation of playlists.
- Similarity search in music collection based on sound.
- Customizable hierarchichal browsing of the database by e.g. genre/artist/album or year/artist.
- Flexible database including the seperate storage of several artists per song, albums and playlists as part of a playlist.
- Import and export of meta information based on XML.
Enhancements:
- This release offers better sound descriptors resulting from more experiments with audio features.
- The processing of audio files is more robust, the import of meta information is much faster, and more audio formats are supported.
- MusicMiner now also runs on OS X with some manual setup work described in a howto.

MusicTree is a small collection of Python scripts that helps you manage a large collection of music files. The project was designed to work with Unix systems (tested only on SuSE Linux), but may also work on Windows. For normal use you also need Vorbis Tools* and rsync.
The scripts help you:
- Maintain a central collection of high-quality (typically FLAC) files.
- Backup this collection on a second disk/machine.
- Generate a parallel collection of lower-quality (but much smaller) compressed (typically Ogg) files.
- Select an arbitrary subset of the compressed files (a "playlist").
- Upload the playlist to a second machine.
The scripts do not assume any particular directory layout (except that the music files live under a single root directory - that is not really a restriction since you can always use a separate directory and links to tie various directories together). Nor do you have to use a particular format (by default the scripts assume archive files are FLAC and the compressed files are Ogg encoded, but you can operate on different formats by changing the relevant commands in the configuration file).
However, the scripts do assume a that you have a basic understanding of how to use Unix. There is no installer or GUI - you run these from the command line and combine them with other command line tools (like find and xargs).
Directories and Machines
This documentation will talk about two different computers: "server" and "client". The "server" is typically a desktop machine with a large disk (or set of disks). This machine stores the high-quality "archive" of your music - all the files, with no (lossy) compression. It may also store a backup copy on a separate disk.
The "client" is typically a laptop or portable music player with a smaller capacity. Because it has restricted space you load it with a selection of (lossy) compressed files.
Separating server and client allows you to keep a safe, "perfect quality" archive where space is available, but also listen to more songs on portable devices with restricted resources.
The scripts expect these directories on the server:
Archive
This is where the complete, high-quality collection of music is stored. For example, this might be where your CD ripping software places files (I use kAudioCreator with the default settings).
Compress
A mirror of the Archive directory with lower-quality files. This is generated from the Archive directory by running the mt-encode script.
Select
A subset of the Compress directory, containging a "playlist" that will be copied to the client.
Backup
An optional second copy of the Archive (typically on a separate disk).
Installation and Configuration:
There is no automatic install. Instead, copy the files to a suitable directory and extend your PATH to include them.
For example, to put the files in the new directory ~/musictree (assuming you use the bash shell):
> cd
> tar xvfz musictree.tgz
> export PATH="$PATH:~/musictree"
Youll want to redefine PATH in your .bashrc or equivalent.
You also need to edit the example configuration file (musictree in the distribution) and (usually) copy it to ~/.musictree.
Suggestions for how to use the various scripts (eg. running mt-encode via cron) are in the following sections.
Enhancements:
- Volume normalization is now supported either via metadata, or by directly scaling the compressed files.