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I'm looking for a piece of software that would run under GNU/Linux and that would allow me to store and organise sheet music in various formats on my hard drive into a database searchable by genre, artists, instruments, key, ...

Does anyone have recommendations?

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The sort of canocical way to do this in a GNU environment is to store the sheets as well-annotated (and thus greppable) Lilypond code. Then you can search etc. using the standard Unix tools. – leftaroundabout Jun 21 '12 at 9:19

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not for software.
but i keep ALL my sheet music as .png files, named well, in neat directories.
A dir for each song, and 1.png, 2.png, etc per page.
zip it for emailing.
All you need is a paint app to scribble fingering and notes.
Any picture viewer should work for ya.
Some people like pdf, but not me.

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I have two suggestions, although neither is a perfect solution.

If you plug all the info you mentioned into a spreadsheet, it'd be easily sortable by any of those criteria. That doesn't organize the files themselves, though, so you'd have to either think up some folder structure for the files (I simply used very broad instrumentation folders, then composer).

The second suggestion is use some sort of either paperless office software (Like DevonThink Office for Mac, as I use) or a database software to keep track like the spreadsheet. Depending on the software, it may not solve your actual file management issue though, just be a searchable database of all the information.

I'll confess to not knowing a whole lot about linux and software available for it; you may have better luck asking around for database or paperless office softwares on a Linux specific site or stack exchange. I'd just put what you're looking to do in general terms: keep track of files, and be able to search by user-defined attributes or tags. Good luck!

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