music file trial software / shareware for linux

Get a head start or improve skills in reading music notation with Dolce Music Flash Cards.

Dolce Music Flash Cards features dual question counters, score counter, optional timer, and results of each round may be printed with student name and time/date stamp for record keeping.

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Mup takes a text file as input and produces PostScript output for printed music. Mup can handle both regular notation and tablature notation. (It can also produce MIDI output.)
Main features:
- Up to 40 staffs, which can include 1-line, 5-line, and tablature staffs. Output can be restricted to any subset of the staffs. Different staffs can be different sizes.
- Up to 3 independent voices per staff, up to 70 simultaneous notes per voice.
- Double whole to 256th notes, with any number of dots. Tuplets.
- Note styles of normal, grace, cue, X, diamond, plus shaped notes. Optional parentheses around notes and/or accidentals.
- Cross-staff stems.
- Time signatures of cut, common, or numerators from 1 to 99 and denominators from 1 to 64. Complicated time signatures, including numerators with two or more numbers added together, or two or more fractions added together, or alternating time signatures.
- All standard clefs, including treble, treble8, 8treble, French violin, soprano, mezzosoprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass, as well as the drum (neutral) clef. Clefs can be changed in the middle of measures.
- Barline styles of single, double, dashed, dotted, end, repeats, or none.
- 8th note and shorter notes can have either flags or beams; beams can be cross-staff.
- Guitar grids
- Lyrics can be placed above, below, or between staffs. Unlimited number of verses, with control of font and size.
- Headers and footers.
- Staffs can be grouped with braces or brackets.
- Automatic transposition of music and chord marks per staff.
- First and subsequent endings.
- Optional rehearsal marks and/or automatic measure numbering. Rehearsal marks can be boxed, circled, or plain.
- Crescendo/decrescendo marks.
- Rolls, ornaments, fermatas, accents.
- Measure repeats.
- Ties, slurs, phrase marks, octave marks, piano pedal marks, etc. Ties, slurs, and phrase marks can be solid, dotted, or dashed.
- Suport for figured bass, analysis, and chords.
- Optional MIDI file output. (Very useful for "proof-listening" to your songs to check for input mistakes!)
- PostScript output for printing on any PostScript compatible output device. Can be used with Ghostscript.
- All standard PostScript fonts supported, in 1 to 100 point size, including most common non-English characters.
- Input is a text file, for easy portability between computer systems.
- Macros and include files.
- General if clauses that can be used to generate different outputs based on values of parameters.
- Mup will determine how to lay out the music, but there are numerous user controls available to fine-tune the output to meet your specific needs.
- Comprehensive Users Guide provided in both PostScript and HTML formats, including many examples.
- Mup is available via ftp to try out for free. If you like it and want to keep it, the shareware registration is far lower than the cost of most music publication software.
Enhancements:
- This version adds new features requested by users, including support for user-defined symbols, several new parameters affecting layout and how accidentals are used, a new way to force alignment, an HTML index, and various other enhancements.

Thin File Upload is a general purpose multiple file uploader. Once Thin Upload is installed on your website, visitors will be able to send you their files simply by dropping them the designated area of their browser.
With traditional HTML form based uploads, each transfer is limited to a handlfull of files. With Thin Upload thousands of files and folders can be sent at once. A browse button can also be displayed for users who may prefer it, this button can also be used to select multiple files and folders.
Another difference between HTML forms and our applet is that the maximum upload size can be checked before a single byte has been transfered saving bandwidth. Another feature of the applet is its ability to display a progress monitor while the files are in transit.
As the name suggests Thin Upload is an ultra thin client that is compatible with all popular server side scripting/programming languages such as PHP, Perl, ASP.NET etc. At just 50 Kilo Bytes it loads almost instantly.
Enhancements:
- The applet can now be controlled by directly embedding configuration directives into the Web page that contains the applet.
- A new progress monitor has been added.

Sipcat VoIP PBX is a software IP telephony system that helps businesses increase productivity and reduce telecommunication costs.
Our flexible solutions allow you to run your own IP Telephony PBX in a matter of minutes.
Main features:
- Full voicemail system with many delivery options.
- Integrated conference rooms.
- Multiple Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems
- Extensive call queues for call center management.
- Intelligent routing for outbound and inbound calls.
- Integrated fax server with e-mail delivery.
- Music on hold with mp3 files.
- Call forwarding, call waiting and call parking.
Benefits:
- Scalable solution, grows with your company
- Flexible deployment options
- Open standards, based on SIP
- Easy to use web administration interface
- Supports VoIP, analog and ISDN lines
- Auto configuration of various phone brands.
- E-mail delivery of voicemail and fax messages.
- Comprehensive reporting options.
- Automatic updates, flexible support options.
- Affordable for businesses of all sizes.
Enhancements:
- This update includes support for dial by name (company directory), fixed timezones, external access to services (*xx codes), and integration of the address book in the xml directory for Cisco and Thomson phones.
- It also adds extra NAT parameters for trunks and includes other optimizations and bugfixes.

Transcribe! project is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.
The usual technique for doing this is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. Unless you have perfect pitch then you also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which. However, if you copy the recording to your computers hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead of the cassette machine and the piano.
Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processing an audio file and outputting musical notation - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums.
If you have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (see How to Transcribe), but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can make the job a lot quicker and easier.
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicit information about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty of programs available which can display this information. Transcribe! deals with audio sample data files.
Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor. It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitch change and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want.
Main features:
- Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It also has a "Record" facility for recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point.
- Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like (in version 7). You can configure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet!
- There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
- The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
- Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old & slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.
Mono/Karaoke
- This effect allows you to mix the two channels of a stereo recording together in various ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as "karaoke" as it sometimes has the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panned dead-centre).
EQ
- A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning
- Adjustment to playback pitch, in cents (hundredths of a semitone) for fine tuning and also larger shifts of up to two octaves, which can for instance be useful in hearing low, murky bass parts by raising them by an octave or two.
Transposition
- Special handling for those of you who play a transposing instrument such as trumpet or saxophone.
Speed
- Speed variable from one twentieth to double speed.
- Click here for an MP3 file (373 KB) demonstrating the sound quality of slowdown-without-pitch-change. It contains 7 seconds of a guitar solo played quite fast, followed by the same at half speed. This is what you get when you press Transcribe!s half-speed button (version 7.20). I havent bothered to give lots of samples, since you can download Transcribe! for a free trial period and try it yourself.
Flyer
- Sometimes people ask me for a printed information sheet about Transcribe!. I dont distribute printed materials but here is a single-sided information sheet as a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file which you are welcome to download and print out.