Questions tagged [music]
Software for music playback and musical performance. Media players and media libraries are included.
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Windows/Mac music player with recommendations/discovery feature (not iTunes)
I've had music players on Android (e.g. MixZing) that also have a feature to suggest music you might like based on what's in your library. I believe iTunes does something similar ("Genius"? Or that ...
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Music player for Android, files-and-directories based and with a lockscreen window
Desired features:
Playing Android-supported media files;
Ability to be shown atop of Android lock screen, with:
Seeking bar;
Buttons for switching to next/prev file;
Buttons for switching to next/...
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Open source music player for windows
I'm looking for a music player (not video player) for windows which is:
open-source
simple to use
easy to organise albums
support .mp3, .flac sound formats
It should not have a lot of features or be ...
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Music Library Capable Player for Windows that is Database Compatible to Banshee
I am using a multiple OS environment. I have three PCs (2 Laptops and one Mid Tower) all are running Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu Linux. I use Linux for Daily use, but sometimes (Photoshop, Videocutting, ...
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Percussion and accompaniment application for Linux platforms
I am a piano player. I had a keyboard that had the feature to add percussion and accompaniment when giving the chords and selecting the rhythm (e.g. Ballad).
I switched to a digital piano that is ...
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Tag & Rename Mac OS X equivalent
I'm looking for a Mac OS X free clone of the Tag & Rename Windows software.
The features I need are:
Batch ID3v2 tag editing for various music file formats (MP3, M4A,
FLAC, ...)
Batch renaming ...
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Program that fetches all music album images and saves them as ID3 tag
I'm looking for a software (Windows or Linux) or an Android application that, given a folder, automatically and batch fetch the albums covers, and then write them down as ID3 tag.
It should support ...
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Ripping software for audio CDs on Linux
I have a collection of several hundreds audio CDs (strange as it might sound: yes, I really bought those ;) While in the past it was "convenient" to have them served using a CD juggler, that piece of ...
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Simplest Midi Editor Player with animated keyboard?
I need a simplest program to load, edit (cut, add, modify notes, add, delete, merge tracks ...) I need to do some basic works on midifiles to suit my needs then save them.
I also need to play back ...
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Most accurate programs to find similar music?
I'd like to find new pieces of music, resembling titles or a specific artist that I input into/specify for the program. The excessive choice of programs claiming this ability mystifies me. Which ones ...
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Display FFT for portions of an audio file (w/ note frequencies)
I'm looking for a program (preferably free) that can open audio files and display the results of a Fourier transform for a user-selected duration within the file. Ideally, this program would also mark ...
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Piano App for Android With Scales and Rhythm (Similar to Garage Band)
For me, Garage Band's most outstanding features are, you can pick a scale and all the keys on the keyboard (or strings on the guitar) are coherent to the scale you picked. Moreover, you can never miss ...
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Is there a lightweight desktop music player app/solution that reads directly from my iDevice iTunes library?
I have an iPod touch 4G (jailbroken) dedicated for storing music.
To clarify, I want an app/solution that:
runs on OS X Mavericks/Windows 8.1
reads from the itunes library on my iDevice, which is ...
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Lyrics extractor (speech recognition) from a song
I have some songs in English that do not have published lyrics due to those are not popular.
So I'm looking for an online service or a standalone app that can extract (recognize) lyrics (as text) from ...
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Find music by key (musical scale, like F major, D minor...)
Many times I'm in a mood to listen only to music or songs that are in a particular key of a musical scale, for example F major, D minor, etc..
Is there anything to help me find music that is composed ...
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Pitch detection for multiple voices
I greatly enjoy singing a cappella music with multiple parts (usually 4, but in principle, any number of parts between 2 and 8). It's less enjoyable when we're singing out of tune. We are amateurs: we ...
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Music player for Windows that supports many themes [closed]
I need a music player for Windows OS that supports many themes.
Currently I use Windows Media Player as my music player, but I got bored with it. So suggest me a good music player that can be ...
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Looking for a piano sight reading app that listens to your instrument
I've been looking around for a sight reading app. I found this rather excellent iPad app and it has helped a lot. I'd really like an app that allows me to practice using my instrument instead of an ...
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Automatically identify tracks in an MP3 collection
I need a program for Windows 8.1 with no bloatware or adware that will automatically rename, tag, and add cover art to my MP3 collection. I want something to do this by auto AcoustID or ...
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Piano software with external sound font
Is there a free piano playing software/game which allows you to use an external sound font (like .sf2 files) and preferable export your music into midi?
Open source preferred.
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Application to search my music library for low quality tracks
I was listening to my music today and randomly checked the quality of one of my tracks, only to discover it was only 256kbps! This won't do, I prefer to listen to 320 when I can find it.
Does anyone ...
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Music software with human voice as the tone
Think of it like this, a piano software, in which when Do-Re-Mi etc is played, instead of playing the normal piano tone, it will play the same tone with human voice (as if someone is just practicing ...
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MIDI Keyboard recording and editing on Linux (Ubuntu)
I used to record some music with my Roland XP-10 keyboard using SONAR 4 under Windows XP, with some VST like The Grand Piano and Korg M1. I have recently switched from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu), and ...
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Detecting Auto-Tuned tracks
I am looking for a program that can take a music file as input (e.g. MP3) and output whether the voice of the singer (if any) has been auto-tuned. If possible, free, works with Windows 7 SP1 x64 ...
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Software to join mp3 and images to make a video (like uMusic)
I'm looking for a better application to make videos from a music file and an image, uMusic is the perfect example, I select an MP3 file plus an JPG file and just hit render and boom, the video is ...
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iOS Itunes Music Tagging/Playlist Creator
I am looking for an app that provides functionality for either directly or indirectly tagging songs as I play them on my iOS device. Currently, I believe that the only direct editing of song metadata ...
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Software to control Spotify on one machine from various other devices
At the office I share a space with three people. We have a very decent set of speakers, and each day whomever comes in first switches the speakers' cable to his computer. This person runs Spotify on ...
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Ubuntu YouTube music player with playlist search and download
I want to play YouTube music without having to run a web browser.
Requirements:
Let me enter keywords to search for playlists, and select a playlist to play
Let me easily download or at least ...
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App/webapp to play tracks and help remember pop music genres
Can you recognize Rocksteady, Reggaeton, Raga, Mandopop, Dubtronica?
I am looking for an app/webapp that would play me tracks of various genres.
The user interface would show me a "Show genre" ...
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Program that can listen to a song and find out what it is?
I am looking for a program similar to Shazam on mobile, but for Windows 7 that can do exactly what it does on mobile which is:
Identifying music being played in the surroundings.
Ideally I would ...
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BPM and key detection for Android
I am looking for an Android application that can:
perform BPM and key detection
support MP3s
If possible, free.
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Free Media Player for Android
I'm looking for a free Android media player that's more pleasant to use than Songbird (crashes/freezes on me) and the built-in Sony version (clumsy to navigate) that came preinstalled on my device (an ...
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Flatten a track's BPM
I'm looking for a software that can flatten a track's BPM, i.e. e.g. if the track begins at 120 BPM, reaches 122 BPM at the middle, and eventually slows down to 118 BPM, I would like the track to ...
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Program to convert a MIDI file into music sheets
I'm looking for a program that can convert a MIDI file into music sheets.
If possible:
Free
Windows 7
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Looking for a Transcription Program
I am looking for a transcription program that will receive an audio file (.mp3) and will print out the music sheet.
I don't mind the cost, and I am using Windows.
I don't think there are anything ...
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Looking for a Metronome Program
I am looking for a (simple) Program that will work as a metronome.
I have found some sites, but the change of rhythms don't work so well.
Are there any metronome software with
Any time signature I ...
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Music software for writing scores
I would like a software that I will be able to write music sheets/scores.
Nothing really fancy, just to be able to write all kinds of notations.
I would prefer a free one for Windows.
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Music software that would allow me to edit tracks
I am looking for a program that would allow me to edit tracks. What I want to do is:
Cut tracks. (like remove the last 2 minutes of a song etc)
Increase/Decrease the pitch
I am using Windows and I ...
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Library to edit Traktor hot cues
I am looking for a library that can:
view Traktor hot cues when given an MP3 as input.
If possible, can:
support FLAC
edit, add, remove Traktor hot cues
I would prefer Python/C++/Java/R/MATLAB, ...
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App that keeps track of what music files I listen fully / partially / skip
I'm looking for an application that can keep track of music that I listen to, and show:
Files that I like to hear more often than others (listen count)
Files that I skip (bad track in playlist)
Files ...
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Ear training Software
I am looking for a (music) ear training program.
What I (mostly) need is:
Interval Training
Chord Progression Training
Rhythm Training
I am looking a free or rather cheap on for Windows.
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Linux music player for huge music collection
This question seems silly, so easy to answer! Well... Hold on! What if I tell that my music folder is... 15GB.
I have Xubuntu 64 bit, Clementine isn't indexing all my songs. Banshee freezes when I ...
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Browser-based music player (self-hosted)
Locally, I have a huge music collection managed by Quod Libet, which works great. Now I’d like to listen to all of my music from other computers, e.g. when visiting a friend.
I don’t want to stream ...
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Any VST for removing harmonic content from audio?
I wonder if there are any VSTs which remove automatically the main harmonic content from an audio source.
For example, if I have a simple sine wave, this hypothetical software/device would return ...
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Program to determine the lowest quality encoding a music file went through
I sometimes get some .wav files that might have been converted from low-quality MP3 (e.g. 128 kbps). I am looking for a program to determine/estimate the lowest quality encoding a music file went ...
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What's the best (simplest) free software to beat-match and mix two tracks?
I want to mix a few tracks (in .mp3 format for example) together to create a seamless bit of dance music for a performance. I'd like to pick a particular section in two songs and the software should ...
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Music library management (iTunes & Spotify hybrid)
First of all: I am on Mac OS X and would love to stay here, but I can switch to Linux if needed (Virtual Machines).
I am looking for an iTunes and Spotify mixture.
I have a great music collection ...
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Program to fully tag any song automatically
Is there any software which can recognize songs by the title (eg:Ron Pope-Home) and to tag it automatically?
I've got the songs in my PC,but they are untagged,you know...I download them from the ...
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What is a good application to catalog CDs?
I have a music collection of 11,000+ CDs stored on shelves in order by artist.
I recently purchased a handy barcode scanner (for various reasons) and I would like to scan the UPC of these CDs and ...
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Program or web services to search for a track among many online music vendors (iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, etc.)
I am looking for a program or web services that can:
search for a track among online music vendors (iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, Beatport, etc.). It would be a meta-search engine combining ...