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Category: Multimedia

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12 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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Video

xt7-player-mpv – mpv GUI

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xt7-player-mpv aims to be an (in)complete graphical interface to mpv, focused on usability.

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Video

uosc – minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

uosc is a feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv.

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YouTube

yt-x – browse YouTube from the terminal

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

yt-x lets you browse YouTube from your terminal. Plus other sites yt-dlp supports.

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Media Center

mnamer – media renamer

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mnamer (media renamer) is an intelligent and highly configurable media organization utility. It’s written in Python.

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Music player

arcorrust – terminal-based virtual instrument playground

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

arcorrust is a terminal-based virtual instrument playground with real-time synthesis and built-in sequencer.

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phiola – audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

phiola is billed as a fast audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server. It’s written in C.

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Music

Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.

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Video Conversion

Yamtrack – self hosted media tracker

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Yamtrack is a self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, anime, manga, video games and books.

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WebRTC

mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mux-media is a CLI utility for muxing media (e.g. video, audio, subtitles).

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Alaska

VHS – write terminal GIFs as code

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

vhs lets you write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.

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Podcast

podliner – terminal-based podcast player

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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Audio Editors

unflac – audio image and cue sheet splitting

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

unflac is a command line tool for fast frame accurate audio image and cue sheet splitting. You need Go and ffmpeg installed.

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Music player

namp – terminal-based music player

December 30, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

namp is a minimalistic terminal-based MP3 player for Linux and macOS, implemented in C++ / Qt.

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YouTube

MeTube – self-hosted YouTube downloader

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

MeTube is a Web GUI for youtube-dl (using the yt-dlp fork) with playlist support. Download videos from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

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ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP with color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients.

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Video Editing

buttery – video editor with manual motion smoothing

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

buttery is a video editor with manual motion smoothing. buttery generates continuous GIF loops.

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VoIP

4 Best Free and Open Source Noise Suppression Tools

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. We only explore free and open source software here.

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Music player

doudou – personal music player that puts privacy first

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Stream your music collection from your own media server with a beautiful, modern interface that works on all your devices.

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