Free song software for linux

Songs is a graphical tool to record and mix audio files. It supports an infinite number of tracks, huge audio files, and various effects.
One important motivation for Songs was the need of a recording tool under Linux. There are some already existing (see the links below), but these are too complex, too huge, eat too much memory and resources. Small machines can be used to record and mix audio files, even with a graphical interface. Songs is trying to prove it.
The recording is done directly to disk, so that with small machines, whithout much memory you can still record.
There is a full duplex mode, but full duplex is not very well handled with OSS. You dont really know if your two streams of samples are synchronized or not, and the interface provided by OSS does not help much with that. So, currently, take the full duplex mode as is. You probably will need to move by hand audio tracks to let them be synchronized.
Main features:
- Unlimited number of tracks.
- Supports WAV files (mono, stereo). Only 44.1 KHz, 16 bits files are supported, because Songs was born mainly to help me create music I could store on audio digital compact disks.
- Supports raw float files (mono, stereo). Very useful when you are mixing and that you eat too much resources. Simply put in a new file your current mix, and use this new file instead of several ones. Using float numbers gives more precision of the intermediary mixing.
- Several effects (currently not that much, but it is planned).
- Not too much memory used. All the audio files are mapped directly into the memory, so that the Linux kernel can swap them very easily. It means that if your files can exist on your disk, any size they are, they can be used with Songs (with a soft limitation of virtual memory space, which depends on your setup, and a hard limitation of 2 GB, because of the use of signed integers, which currently are 32 bits numbers).
- Use of gtk 2.0, for the good and the bad. The good is that the interface was done quickly. The bad is that the gtk documentation is far from perfect, that gtk is not bug free, that I may use it the wrong way sometimes and that it may change in the future, forcing Songs to be changed (and what if the Songs authors dont feel the need to do so, for example by lack of time?).
Enhancements:
- sc1.c sc1_gui.c:
- New files, ripping a compressor from sc1_1425 coming from swh-plugins-0.4.11.tar.gz (see http://plugin.org.uk/).The compressor was buggy, sometimes in rms_env_process
- r->sum was negative, leading to NaN for the sqrt stuff.
- pan/vol/pos.c: Checking return value of malloc (no, it was not done, shame !).
- various files: Fixing a realloc misusing (doing realloc(size+=32) then size+=32, which finally means size+=64 but only allocing size+32 stuff, weirdy to find).
- help_gui.c: The "About" stuff only appeared once, fixing it.
- various files: Fixing bugs those last days, forgot to feed this Changelog.

Per-Song Volume is a Perl script maintains a per-song volume information.

What it means is that a volume is associated with each song, which is recorded whenever the volume changes, and is restored to its last value when the song is played again.

This is useful if you have several songs which sound louder or softer than the rest.

To run this script you need perl 5 and DBD::SQLite (http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-SQLite/).

The file "$HOME/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts-data/per-song-volume.default-volume.txt" can optionally hold the default volume for playing the files (an integer from 0 to 100). The default setting for it is 40.

I hope you find this script useful!

The Minstrels Song project is a roguelike game with emphasis on worldbuilding.
The Minstrels Song is a roguelike game which seeks to let the user interact with a rich and extensive world.
Among roguelikes, emphasis is on providing nonlinear play in a detailed environment.
Effort has been made to provide races that have not only stats but cultures.
Top 10 things to do in "The Minstrel s Song":
- Pet a dolphin.
- Pray and worship.
- Ride a dragon.
- Match wits with a clockwork door.
- Climb a tree.
- Answer a riddle.
- Build your own mechanical devices.
- Keep an exotic pet.
- Choose your own quest.
- Explore a world of wonder.
To compile and run this game, go into the directory src, edit the file "tms.h" according to the comments that are contained in, and use make.
More specifically, it needs a certain lib directory, where all of the files in "lib" are stored. /usr/local/lib/tms is reccommended. Once you have created that directory and moved all of the files to it (be sure that book8.txt is writeable by everybody -- it is more or less the high score file), set LIB_DIR in tms.h to that directory, with a trailing slash -- ie. change appropriate line to say.
#define LIB_DIR "/usr/local/lib/tms/"
(or whatever you have put for your lib directory.)
Security note: It is strongly discouraged to install TMS as a SetUID binary; the game is not designed to have special priveleges.

LongPlayer extends the functionality of a traditional MP3 player and is meant for people with a large MP3 or Ogg Vorbis collection who want to listen to it all day. LongPlayer chooses from dynamically generated collections of music to fill the MP3 players playlist.
It does this in a more advanced way than a traditional player, taking into account the rating of the song and the time that has passed since the song was last listened to. The GUI allows you to view, rate, replay, and delete songs previously listened to. It works with XMMS, WinAmp, and iTunes.
Enhancements:
- fixed crashes when there are no playlists

Lyrics Manager is an amaroK script that manages the song lyrcis.
Main features:
- Edit lyrics with your favorite editor
- Export lyrics to file
- Import lyrics from file
You can setup your editor (for editing) and directory with texts (for import and export) via script configuration. Script will take care of html break tags while importing and exporting lyrics text, so you can edit and store plain text with correct rendering it in amaroK.

XMMS Now Playing plugin outputs information of the song currently being played in XMMS to specified text files. It supports ID3 tags (using libid3tag from MAD project) and has some other bells and whistles.

This is a now playing plugin for XMMS, replacement for song_change.so

This is a really quick hack, but it works for me.

song_change.so (song change plugin) is included in XMMS package and provides
somewhat relative functionality, but with some limitations.

Improvements:

1. support for id3/id3v2 tags via libid3tag from MAD
2. support for additional conditions (if paused, if playing, etc..) not just playing/end of playlist reached.

Headphone is an amaroK script that offers a Dj-ing feature. You can send one or more songs from the playlist to the xmms - player.

TODO:

Configure the xmms - player to another soundcard or another channel of your soundcard.

Use the "Sent To" "Headphone" button.

That it is. The song will be played with the xmms - player.