Free music playing 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).

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.

PHP music player controller (PMPC) is a script that allows navigation through your music directory, and the adding of albums or single songs into a playlist. The project also allows you to play, stop, pause, and go back and forth through the playlist.
Apache needs to run as the same user that is running the music players. In other words, it probably needs to run as whatever your username is. This is a setting in /etc/httpd.conf . So, dont run this on a machine thats visible to the web, or make a user with really strict rules applying to them - so they cant run anything but an x session, desktop environment, and the music player, and cant touch much of anything but their home files.
I guess Id serve the pages out of the users home directory if I was doing that.
If you know a better way to get this to work, please let me know. I dont profess to be an apache-configuration guru, and for all I know this method is really just dumb.
If youre running apache as yourself, youll need to change the session.save_path variable in your php.ini to something that you have write access to, or chmod the directory its currently using.
PS: If amarok or xmms was working fine for you before, let me know. Ill have a chance to test them, and code the support for them here in the next couple of days.
Enhancements:
- Huge improvements were made.
- The appearance of the player interface was improved.
- Amarok is now supported.
- Directories with hyphens in their names should play correctly now.

CMus is a small and fast music player using the ncurses library. CMus has vi-style command interface, e.g. searching using / or ? and adding files to playlist :add ~/foo.ogg.
Main features:
Input
- FLAC
- Ogg/Vorbis
- MP3 (libmad)
- Wav
- Modules (libmodplug)
Output
- ALSA
- OSS
- ARTS
- MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
- WinAmp / XMMS keys "zxcvb"
- Can be controlled via UNIX socket
- Serial port remote controller support (irman)
- Customizable colors
- Nice vi-style interface with tabulator expansion
- Background playlist loading
- Track metadata database makes adding files to playlist very fast.
- Album/artist modes. Playing within one album or artist.
- Playlist is always kept sorted.
- Play queue
- Directory browser
- Full UTF-8 support
Enhancements:
- This release adds long-awaited replaygain support, Cygwin support, and three new commands: prev-view (switch to the previously used view), tqueue (enqueue random tracks), and lqueue (enqueue random albums).
- An ffmpeg plugin was added for WMA support along with wavpack and Windows waveout plugins.
- Many bugs were fixed.

Xmms Gtk Playlist is an application to import and search the current xmms playlist.

I use xmms to play music. But the playlist is hard to navigate. So the answer was to throw together a helper application that imports the current playlist and then lets you perform regex searches.

You can sort on any of the columns, and can double click on a row or use the play/stop toolbar buttons. Uses normal C and gtk. Thrown together in three evenings (load&sort&play, search&code cleanup, polish user interface).

In version 2.0 there are two output binaries, the Xmms General plugin and the standalone helper application. The source for both is identical, the difference is in how they are accessed and started.

midi pong is an implementation of the pong game that works as a MIDI instrument.

Seen it before? As a MIDI instrument? As a VST plugin? When you play pong, you play music. You can try it here as an applet, though thats not half as cute as connecting it to a nice soft-synth sound, adding a few effects (arpeggiator, anyone?) and letting it play some loops for you.

Dont believe me? Try it. If youre too chicken then listen to this sample: pong (1.4mb). Its made up of three voices played by pong - no meddling with the MIDI output, this is pure pong power!

For your incidental compositions you can choose computer, keyboard or mouse control (or gamecontroller if you get the source) for the left and right rackets. You can choose the scale that pong plays notes from when the ball is hit. You can choose the tempo of the performance. The MIDI output device. The MIDI channel. This pong uses Swing and requires Java 1.4 or newer.

Usage:

Download and run with java -jar pong.jar

PyMusicD is yet another jukebox daemon written in python. It was born out of my frustration with the current mp3 jukeboxes, mostly the lack of features that I want. Ive also been playing with python quite a lot lately, and this is my first attempt at a large project in python.
The player is being written to satisfy my own requirements for a car mp3 player, although theres no reason you couldnt use this for a home mp3 player, or work mp3 player.
It assumes that your network users are (mostly) benign, and doesnt take a lot of precautions against malicious users who want to screw with your mp3s. Take appropriate measures to only allow trusted users to play with it, at least until I secure it a bit better.
Its primary purpose is to run in the background, and play mp3s whenever they are in the playlist.
Usage
Unpack this to its own directory. Edit the pymusicd.conf file to your liking. Run python PyMusicD, then run python pymusic to play around with it. The client operates very similarly to most shells, and includes tab completion for commands (but not arguments... yet.)
If you wish to install this to the system, you may do so by running python setup.py install. This will install the server binary in the default place for your platform (according to distutils.) You may then edit the config file (/etc/pymusicd.conf by default) and run the server by running PyMusicD. The cli client will be named pymusic.
This software is currently in development. It is not ready for end users yet. You should have familiarity with scripting in python before you set about to use this software. That being said, if you find bugs that arent listed in TODO, and/or have problems with the software that arent listed in TODO, email me (zwhite@darkstar.frop.org) and Ill see what I can do to help you. Code patches/suggestions are always welcome.
This is known to work on my Slackware 9.0 machine using the Python 2.2.2 package that came with it. I have also tested it on my Mac OSX 10.2.8 machine with Python 2.2. I have no reason to believe that it wont work on any machine with a Python 2.x interpreter and
either mpg123 or mpg321. Your mileage may vary. If it doesnt work on your platform, please let me know. My goal is to have this work on any platform that python runs on.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug when adding an entire directory with %2A instead of *
- Added a debug command to get server state, currently only playstatus is reported, will add more as needed.
- Changed the way the stop command works to eliminate a bug.
- Check to make sure a file exists before we add it to the playlist.
- We no longer start playing music as soon as the playlist has entries.
- Instead, we wait for a play command to be issued.
- Added config file support. Defaults to /etc/pymusicd.conf or ./pymusicd.conf
- Added a setup.py and setup.cfg file. Now users can install PyMusicD using the standard "python setup.py install" method that other scripts and modules use.