Free music together software for linux

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.

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.

Cowbell Music Organizer is an elegant music organizer intended to make keeping your collection tidy both fun and easy.

Do you ever pull your hair out trying to hand-edit all your tags with some arcane editor? Tell your inner OCD to take a hike because Cowbell is coming into town.

Cowbell is an elegant music organizer intended to make keeping your collection tidy both fun and easy.

Infused with Amazon Web Services SOAP-fu, Cowbell can whip your music platoon into shape without even getting your boots muddy. And, if that isnt enough to make you want to rush to the Download link, Cowbell can also snatch album art and rename your music files like a pro.

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

Top Music allows you to publish music (albums, songs, sound tracks, rankings, artists, etc.) to create an online music portal.

It features: A-Z list of bands; band information (name, photo, genre, biography, etc.); discography; album information (title, year, covers, band, etc.); albums songs lists; song information (title, album, number, lyrics, etc.); the ability to listen to tracks; searching; ranking lists (most visited, most voted, etc.); a voting system; an uploads system; themes; an easy configuration screen; many blocks; multi-language support; easy installation; and a support forum, mailing lists, and Sourceforge.net support (CVS, files, etc.)

mCube Music Manager project is a digital music manager. The target is to let user manage and choose music to listen with the comfort and feeling of browsing physical compact disc and with the power of computer aided search, sort and categorization.
Main features:
- Folders synchronization: add a folder to mCube Library and you never need to worry about it anymore.
- Tagging System allows to build a categorization that evolves with the library and with user needs. Tag Cosmos allow you to navigate through your tags easily
- Many different Views for displaying Artists, Albums, Tracks or your Compilations. You can build your own page with the view you like in the way you like.
- Quick search box to filter all library a la iTunes/Firefox/Thunderbird
- Edit Album Information and automatically update file tag
- Easy filter for different album types (Live, Sountrack...) and support for multiple CDs albums
- Export selected songs or albums to an external folder: youll never need to use File Managers anymore!
- Play songs or albums with default system player.
- mCube is open source and, of course, free!

Music::Chord::Namer - You give it notes, it names the chord.

SYNOPSIS

use Music::ChordName qw/chordname/;

print chordname(qw/C E G/); # prints C
print chordname(q/C E G/); # same (yes, array or string!)
print chordname(qw/C Eb G Bb D/); # prints Cm9
print chordname(qw/G C Eb Bb D/); # prints Cm9/G

Music::ChordName optionally exports one sub, chordname, which accepts some notes as either a string or a list and returns the best chord name it can think of.

EXPORT

None by default.

$bestnamescalar|@namesarray = chordname($notesstring|@notesarray)
chordname() accepts either a string of notes such as "C Eb G A#" or a list of notes such as qw/Ab Bb F Bb D/. In a scalar context it returns the best name it could think of to describe the chord made from the notes you gave it. In an array context it returns all of the names it thought of, sorted from best to worst (shortest to longest!)

EXAMPLES

# to print a bunch of guitar chord names with at lest 4 notes each,
# all below 5th fret...

foreach my $s1(qw/- E F Gb G Ab/){
foreach my $s2(qw/- A Bb B C Db/){
foreach my $s3(qw/- D Eb E F Gb/){
foreach my $s4(qw/- G Ab A Bb/){
foreach my $s5(qw/- B C Db D Eb/){
foreach my $s6(qw/- E F Gb G Ab/){
my @notes = ();
push @notes, $s1 unless $s1 eq -;
push @notes, $s2 unless $s2 eq -;
push @notes, $s3 unless $s3 eq -;
push @notes, $s4 unless $s4 eq -;
push @notes, $s5 unless $s5 eq -;
push @notes, $s6 unless $s6 eq -;
if(@notes >= 4){
print scalar(chordname(@notes)), = ,join( ,@notes),"n";
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

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.