Free mp3 collection software for linux

Medley is an audio collection catalogue application.

Medley acts as a database, storing detailed information about albums, records, tracks, and artists related to them. It allows the user to assign custom tags and ratings to stored items.

Oggasm is a program that makes converting your mp3 collection into oggs a all but painless process.

Using oggenc and mpg321, with perl glueing it all together, oggasm is able to go through an entire collection, identify id3 tags and then convert those mp3s into oggs while keeping the id3 tags intact.

TODO:

server-client model: When oggasm is started I want it to creat a list of jobs that need to be done and then assign those jobs to various clients that could either be running on the same machine or on other machines connected via a network.

Im of two minds on how to do this. Either I learn how to use sockets and develop my own communication protocol to tell the clients what to do, or I create physical files that are grabed by the client via ftp or samba. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages and I hope to look into it more soon.

One thing that is very important is that a client machines need to be able to come and go as necessary. So oggasm might start with 2 clients, be at 5 later in the day, and then down to 1 when it all finishes.

network functionality: How this will look will rest largly on how the server-client model ends up looking. But most likely the it will involve using ftp or samba to grab files from the server machine, convert them, and then send them back to the server. After that the
client will be assigned a new job.

improvments to user interface: This will be a on going process. As I continue to get more feedback on how people felt their experience with oggasm was I can improve how it the interface looks. Recent changes with 1.3 will allow updates to the interface to be much smother than before.

more encoder/decoder options: certainly oggenc will remain the primary encoder, however other free codecs might come along someday, and it would be nice if oggasm was modular enough to beable to plug in different encoders. I would also like to support different decoders as not everyone has mpg321 (however I will NOT provide support of non-free decoders).

dvdindex is a free, open-source CD/DVD archiving utility to manage a collection of
CDs/DVDs.

It has built-in encryption support and is released under the GPL.

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.

EmbedCover is a script for embedding album cover images in MP3 files. EmbedCover script will automatically look up the image associated to it in amaroK and embed this image in the file.

The MP3 file must have an ID3-V2 tag, otherwise the script will abort, and the file must be in your Collection.

It is recommended that you back up your MP3 file before using this script on it.

Although the script is designed not to harm your file, the operation is not reversible and should therefore be used with caution.

Future versions will also be able to remove embedded cover images from a file.

Jajouka is a nice GUI interface for those with GiantDisc jukebox systems.
Main features:
- plays mp3 / ogg music
- reads mp3 id3v1, id3v2 and ogg music tags
- rhythmbox based gui but with a proper playlist
- works with a GiantDisc database
- rescan / refresh a GiantDisc music collection

ProMP3 allows you to listen to music playing from a central jukebox server (xmms), or stream music over the web.
ProMP3 uses apache and mod_perl to categorize, organize, and customize your mp3 collection, from a web interface.
Main features:
- Can play music directly from the web server:
- Uses xmms on the server to have a central source for music.
- All the standard player features supported
- Hook up a central stereo to a sound card in the web server!
- Allows streaming of mp3s to local clients.
- Access Control:
- Allow View: you can allow the world or select hosts access to browse and search your music collection without access to the music
- Allow Stream: only let certain hosts stream music from your server
- Allow Player: allow certain hosts control over the music played from the server
- Categorizes by album genre for later displaying
- Allows creation of custom categories to pick out your favorites and full editting capability of the custom lists.
- Allows random selections: "Play 100 tracks from Rock" or "Add 300 tracks from Jays Favorites"
- Allows full text searching on Artist, Album or Song title.