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24 alternatives to World Music Textbook, a collaborative open educational resource
The World Music Textbook is a new collaborative effort to create a free and broadly accessible resource for the general public, educators, students, and researchers alike. Its open collections of scholarly, peer-reviewed writing and multimedia materials focus on increasing access to underrepresented voices, writing styles, and audiences, all with undergraduate students and a broad readership in mind. We have a post in the News section with some detail about our tech stack, which is all based on free/free tier services. One of the big goals is to make something reproducible in a way that…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. World Music Textbook, a collaborative open educational resource launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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LightNote▲242An interactive site to learn the basics of music theory 🎶
2016 · lightnote.co · its alternatives →
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A free, open source, music theory explorer for guitarists. Discover how scales and modes map to the fretboard and how chords work within scales.
2018 · guitardashboard.com · its alternatives →
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Western music theory library in C. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Draw.Audio is a free online music maker. Draw notes on a grid and hear them play back instantly — a browser-based synthesizer, sequencer, and visual instrument.
2024 · draw.audio · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the last 12 months, I have been building https://learnawesome.org This idea came from Danny Hillis' 2012 talk at OSCON, which itself was inspired from Neal Stepehenson's _The Diamond Age : A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_ The dream is to build a tool that matches the right learning material to the right student at the right time. Wikipedia is great, but it doesn't do a good job of leveraging the rich variety of learning resources that exist on the Web. Same applies to GoodReads - which is focused only on books, whereas these days we actually learn from videos,…
2020 · its alternatives →
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An open network of digital resources for the study of music.
2016 · its alternatives →
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2012 · textyard.com · its alternatives →
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I noticed that many websites offering free audiobooks tend to have clunky search functionality, making it harder to find what you're looking for. To address this, I’ve created a site that aggregates audiobooks from multiple platforms—complete with book reviews and ratings—making it easier to discover and explore new titles. At the moment, I've included audiobooks from popular sources like Librivox, Project Gutenberg, and Lit2Go. I'm open to suggestions on additional free audiobook sources I could integrate into the site to expand the collection!
2025 · booksearch.party · its alternatives →
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Mapping the college curriculum across 7M+ syllabi
2021 · opensyllabus.org · its alternatives →
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A book of creative strategies for electronic music producers
2015 · makingmusic.ableton.com · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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#MusicTech▲69Data science, music discovery, and lots of fun use-cases!
2015 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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As an enthusiast of Indian classical music, I needed to write music notations in the traditional typeset format. When I didn't find any existing editors, I developed a Swara Notebook, a mobile focused web app to write North Indian Classical (Hindustani) music notations. The notes (called Sargam, similar to Solfege) can be written in English, Devnagri and Bangla scripts. The transcribed song can be played back in 6 different rhythmic cycles (Taal) to the accompaniment of the Tabla(a type of drum) or a metronome. Here's an example of a transcribed song…
2023 · swaranotebook.com · its alternatives →
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Exploring the connection between music and the human brain
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborative music composition for everyone. Contribute to ekzhang/composing.studio development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Songcraft.io▲88A platform for songwriters to write, organize & collaborate.
2021 · songcraft.io · its alternatives →
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muted.io▲128Magical collection of tools to learn music & music theory
2023 · muted.io · its alternatives →
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2013 · saebekassebil.github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · luckylionstudios.com · its alternatives →
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The joy, physics and business of making music
2015 · its alternatives →
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