Free music production software for linux

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

USAGI(UniverSAl playGround for Ipv6) Project works to deliver the production quality IPv6 and IPsec(for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack for the Linux system, tightly collaborating with WIDE Project, KAME Project and TAHI Project.
USAGI Project is run by volunteers from various organizations. At this moment, the volunteers are from Japan, however, we are glad to work with volunteers in any country in the world.
We want to contribute to the Linux community and to the IPv6 community via the delivery of IPv6 protocol stack.
Enhancements:
- Unused code was removed.
- Minor bugfixes were made.
- Some of the additional utilities were reorganized.

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.

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.

Scriptio project is an open source framework for presenting animations and educational content in a rich online experience.
Featuring an easy-to-learn scripting language for fast prototyping and production-quality development, Scriptio is designed for rich Web 2.0 applications.
Scriptio is written in JavaScript, and exploits Ajax techniques. Ajax refers to tools and methods for creating interactive web applications. If accompanying narration or sound is needed, interfaces to Flash, QuickTime, and standard audio formats are supported.
Main features:
Intuitive scripting language
- The scripting language is a simple and easy to understand. It can also be extended since it is built in JavaScript.
Rich object set
- Text, images, rectangles, lines, and circles are supported. Input controls such as buttons, text entry fields, radio buttons, and checkboxes are used for created highly-interactive instructional presentations.
Multiple audio options
- If you need a music or narration soundtrack, interfaces for QuickTime and Flash are included. A Java applet that supports audio formats of Ogg, AU, and WAV has also been developed.
Authoring Tools
- An "author mode" gives valuable feedback as you work and develop your scripts.

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.

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.

Random Music plays random MP3 tracks from your music collection. It maintains a flat database of tracks, detailed genres, and weights, and generates a weighted random playlist from the user-selected genres.
The ID3 and ID3v2 fields (title/artist/album), detailed genre, and weight (0-9) for the currently-playing track can be edited, and tracks can be removed from the playlist.
For example, a user can select only tracks with a minimum weight of 5 from the subgenres "Pop - 1970s" and "R&B - 1970s", and the playlist will adjust accordingly.
Enhancements:
- This release adds features to the playlist editor.
- Playlist entries now include the album name, and selected tracks can be moved up or down.