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10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients

September 9, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, Web Apps

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.

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hympd – simple responsive web interface for MPD

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

hympd is a lightweight responsive web interface for MPD with queue management, search, playback controls, themes and Vim-style navigation.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Podcast Tools

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality open source GUI podcast tools. They offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts.

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7 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Background Noise Generators

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Ambient noise generators occupy a niche on Linux: they don’t demand attention, but they can make a workspace feel calmer, less distracting.

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Music

Revisited: SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player now with gapless playback

September 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

SparkPlayer adds gapless playback for seamless album listening, alongside visualizers, album art, video support and broad format compatibility.

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Audio

Moodist – ambient sounds for focus and calm

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Moodist lets you layer 84 ambient sounds, save and share mixes, generate binaural beats and use productivity tools including Pomodoro.

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Noisekun – ambient sounds for relaxation and productivity

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisekun is an ambient sound mixer with 23 sounds, individual volume controls, themes, saved combinations and a Pomodoro timer.

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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Webcam Tools

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia, Roundup

Our favorite free Linux tools which enable webcams to capture images and video, and to act as a video surveillance device.

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Voice Recognition

Speech Note – note taking, reading and translating

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speech Note works with spoken and written material using local speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation.

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Voice Recognition

aTrain – automatically transcribe recorded speech

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

aTrain is a graphical application to transcribe recorded speech while keeping source audio and resulting text on the user’s own computer.

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Voice Recognition

faster-whisper – reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

faster-whisper is a reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model built around CTranslate2

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Voice Recognition

PocketSphinx – speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

PocketSphinx is a compact, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine originating from CMU Sphinx.

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Video

20 Best Free and Open Source Media Players

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Multimedia, Roundup

A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.

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Audio Editors

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors

September 1, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 20 high quality free and open source audio editors.

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Voice Recognition

whisper.cpp – implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model.

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Voice Recognition

FunASR – end-to-end speech recognition toolkit

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

FunASR is an end-to-end speech recognition toolkit. It provides tools for building, training and deploying speech-processing systems

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Voice Recognition

Chatterbox – family of text-to-speech models

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chatterbox is a family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI. It supports speech generation, voice cloning, and multilingual synthesis.

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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.

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Audio Editors

MorphEdit – browser-based and desktop audio editor

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Web Apps

MorphEdit is a browser-based and desktop audio editor designed for preparing samples for hardware instruments.

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Audio Analyzers

EKO – graphical sound editor

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

EKO is a Qt 6 graphical sound editor with waveform editing, recording, effects, session support, and broad audio format compatibility.

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