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Category: Multimedia

Recording Studio

GNOME Network Displays – cast your desktop to wireless displays

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GNOME Network Displays casts your Linux desktop to Miracast and Chromecast receivers, with audio streaming and virtual display support.

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Composing Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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Audio Analyzers

Bootleg Toolbox – verify and manage lossless concert recordings

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Bootleg Toolbox checks live concert recordings, detects lossy audio sources, repairs sector boundary errors and creates private torrents.

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VoIP

DeepFilterNet Plus – noise suppression for microphones and recordings

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

DeepFilterNet Plus suppresses microphone background noise on Linux and cleans WAV recordings on Linux, macOS and Windows using filtering.

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Mixer

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Volume Mixers

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, TUI

A volume mixer is a tool that adjusts the individual volume levels of different applications and audio devices running on a computer.

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CDROM

RipperX 4 – GTK4 audio CD ripper written in Rust

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

RipperX 4 is a GTK-based audio CD ripper with MusicBrainz lookups, editable metadata, track selection and six output audio formats.

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CDROM

Rubyripper – secure audio CD ripping and encoding

November 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Rubyripper securely extracts audio CDs with repeated reads, error analysis, MusicBrainz tags and support for multiple audio formats.

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VoIP

HushMic – real-time microphone noise suppression

November 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

HushMic provides real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux, with PipeWire virtual input, local processing and adjustable controls.

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YouTube

gytm – terminal-based YouTube Music player

October 31, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

gytm is a Rust-based YouTube Music TUI featuring searching, playlists, multi-account support, queue management and audio playback.

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YouTube

ytm – terminal-based YouTube Music player

October 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, TUI

ytm is a terminal YouTube Music player with interactive search, queues, lyrics, radio, playlists and mpv-powered audio playback.

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YouTube

ytdl-sub – automate media downloads and metadata generation

October 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytdl-sub automates media downloads and metadata preparation for Kodi, Jellyfin and Plex with configurable subscriptions and presets.

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Composing Music

EasyABC – graphical editor for ABC music notation

October 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

EasyABC is a graphical ABC music notation editor with live score previews, MIDI playback, MusicXML imports and PDF and SVG exports.

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Composing Music

PMW – high-quality music typesetting program

October 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Philip’s Music Writer converts text-based music notation into polished PDF and PostScript scores with precise engraving and layout controls.

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Audio

15 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

October 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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Mixer

pulseaudio-mixer-cli – interactive terminal mixer for PulseAudio

October 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pulseaudio-mixer-cli is a terminal audio mixer for controlling PulseAudio streams, with per-app volume adjustment and automated rules.

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Mixer

14 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Volume Mixers

October 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A volume mixer is a tool that adjusts the individual volume levels of different applications and audio devices running on a computer.

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Audio Analyzers

SoX_ng – command-line audio converter and effects processor

October 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

SoX_ng is a command-line audio converter and processor with format conversion, recording, audio effects, resampling and analysis tools.

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Audio Editors

Transition – graphical multimedia to audio converter

October 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Transition converts audio and video files to MP3, FLAC, Opus, Vorbis and WAV on Linux, with batch processing and smart quality settings.

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Audio Analyzers

25 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers

October 21, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well.

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Mixer

Bridge – PipeWire crossfade mixer and audio router

October 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Bridge is a graphical PipeWire crossfade mixer with two virtual outputs, persistent routing rules, output presets and global shortcuts.

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