Free artists software for linux

EarCandy is a music juke-box that presents music collections in the somewhat novel way of artist,album, title regardless of the underlying directory structure.

This is the way that iNoize, a p2p music sharing company, presented music. I worked at iNoize for 18 months and really liked the approach, unfortunately, I do not like web based juke boxes ;-) (I think web uis are too limiting for the user and the developer).

EarCandy is written in Python using (currently) the Gtk toolkit for the user interface. I will eventually switch to AnyGui for the ui once they release a stable version.

EarCandy uses an external player to play tracks. Under Unix/Linux the only player currently supported is xmms. It needs to be running in order to play music, ie EarCandy will no start it for you. And under Windows, winamp is supported.

The main script to run is earcandy.py, cd into the directory and ./earcandy.py to run the application. Windows users, just run earcandy.exe.

The first time it runs, it will ask for the path to youre music files. Enter the path and click on OK. It will then scan that path for mp3 files and add them to an index. It saves the index file, so it only has to this once. You will be able to rescan the directory if you add new tracks to rebuild the index.

The main window consists of 4 list boxes. In order:

* Collections Eventually you will be able to add external collections and reference the music within. They are listed here.
* Artists is the list of all artists in the collection.
* Albums is the list of albums for the selected artist.
* Tracks is the list of tracks for the selected album.

To play an album or track, simple double click on it. There is also a context menu when the right mouse button is pressed on a album or track. For albums, this menu contains items to play the album and enqueue the album. It is similar for tracks.

Enqueing allows a album or track to be added to the list of songs being played in the music player without disturbing what is being played.

Quax is a very small Qt graphical application which can be used to enlarge parts of your X Window desktop. Its mainly targeted at web designers and graphic artists, but its very easy to use by any other user.
Quax home page is located at: http://www.ro.kde.org/quax/. Quax is released under the terms of GNU public license.
Main features:
- very easy to use;
- 4 zoom levels;
- color tooltip with copy to clipboard and color preview;
- moving the zoom window by dragging;
- the ability to change the zoomed direction;
- shortcuts for common operations;
- moving by dragging;
- changing zoomed direction;
- decent documentation.
- support for WIN32 platform
Enhancements:
- spec: updated SuSE and Mandrake spec to include the handbook
- app: corrected URL to new Quax documentation
- spec: updated RedHat spec to include the handbook
- doc: finished Docbook user documentation (Quax manual)
- app: minor labeling changes for menus
- doc: finished Doxygen documentation; started Docbook user doc
- app: now color tooltip will be repositioned when will get out for screen; made some optimizations, removed unused variables and others are local
- spec: support for RedHat 9.0 (script + spec)
- spec: support for Mandrake 9.x (script + spec)
- doc: install instructions for Mandrake 9.x; started to document Quax; more Doxygen setup; updated manual page
- app: removed qDebug()s

Canzoniere is an Mp3 mood classifier.

Canzoniere is an mp3 classification tool, which allows users to classify their songs using personal criteria such as artist score, song score and moods (i.e. romantic, relax, party, etc.). Users can then select their mood and play songs that match.

Yalla, is yet another font selector. Written in C#, it allows you to quickly compose and compare fonts, colors, and text samples.

Yalla (hebrew for GO!), is yet another font selector. Its pretty well a C# copy (sincerest form of flattery) of "Gnome Font Sampler", but with some UI and major speed enhancements. I felt I had to write this after dealing with the head ache of over 6,000 fonts.

This app loads fast, and is simple to use.

It is intended for graphic artists, desktop publishers, or anyone who installs WAY too many fonts.

Sage is an OpenGL extensions library that uses SDL to obtain its function pointers in a cross-platform manner.

Sage source code is automatically generated from the glext.h header file available from the OpenGL site.

Our vision is to foster an independent community, active in the development and maintainance of many unique roleplaying-oriented game worlds, with access to a rich collection of game rules and audio/visual media, a wide selection of server and client implementations, and a standard network communication protocol.

WorldForges mission is to produce the necessary tools and technologies that will allow the creation of graphically rich games of cooperation and socialization.

We strive to blur the distinction between player and maker, and wish to establish a positive community environment for current and future free game developers. Our efforts will culminate in a game, codenamed Belchfire, set in a well developed gameworld called Dural and using the Circe RPG rule system.

Our strategy is simple: Listen to what players, authors, and artists wish to do, and put the tools in their hands that makes it possible for them to realize their visions.
The WorldForge project evolved out of a desire for better internet role playing games.

Where Multi-User Dungeons have had a great degree of success through the early years of the internet, games like Ultima Online have failed to build upon these successes to produce an advanced virtual world of any merit.

Avinash Gupta and a collective of perhaps a dozen enthusiastic gamers began to share their vision of what a truely fantastic gaming experiance should be.

wabaroK is a amaroK script that provides an web interface to amarok.
Main features:
- list artists/albums/songs
- list albums of an artist
- list songs of an album (with cover and length)
- stream mp3 files over network
- does NOT need apache nor MySql
- GUI for configuration
- change look via css
Install:
To install, follow the standard amaroK scripts procedure. See details instuctions in documentation (on the web)
The configuration is done via many kdialog. You can change (default) :
- Listening port: the port of the webserver (1234)
- Number of columns: for lists display (3)
- cover width/height: for single album display (200 pixels)
- Theme: css file name (default)
Enhancements:
- fix Content-Type for ogg files read Collection path from ~/[kdeprefix]/share/config/amarokrc
- fix security issue : can read any file on the system now can only read files in collection folders (thanks to ntome for reporting)

amaroK Now-Webing starts a webserver at an configurable port (Standard is 8080) which display the current song and artist.

Works great for parsing and displaying data on a webserver.