If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.
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Category: Multimedia
Revisited: BM – minimalist terminal music player with gapless playback
BM revisited with gapless playback, improved directory browsing, faster searching, automatic library refreshes, and enhanced layouts.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients
MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. We recommend our favourite open source graphical MPD clients.
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Ebony – GTK4 MPD client with classical music support
Ebony is a GTK4 graphical MPD client for browsing music libraries, with classical music metadata, remote playback and server discovery.
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MPDCtrlX – cross-platform graphical MPD client
MPDCtrlX is a graphical MPD client with album and artist browsing, playlists, search, Wayland support and Linux media controls.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers
CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc.
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Luppolo – multi-track audio looper for musicians
Luppolo is a real-time audio looper for recording layered performances, with synchronized tracks, metronome controls and WAV or FLAC export.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Noise Suppression Tools
This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. We only explore free and open source software here.
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Dabri – offline speech-to-text dictation
Dabri provides offline speech-to-text dictation on Linux, with hotkeys, Whisper and Parakeet models, Vulkan acceleration and CLI control.
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22 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools
Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.
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GNOME Network Displays – cast your desktop to wireless displays
GNOME Network Displays casts your Linux desktop to Miracast and Chromecast receivers, with audio streaming and virtual display support.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music
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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Bootleg Toolbox – verify and manage lossless concert recordings
Bootleg Toolbox checks live concert recordings, detects lossy audio sources, repairs sector boundary errors and creates private torrents.
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DeepFilterNet Plus – noise suppression for microphones and recordings
DeepFilterNet Plus suppresses microphone background noise on Linux and cleans WAV recordings on Linux, macOS and Windows using filtering.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Volume Mixers
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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RipperX 4 – GTK4 audio CD ripper written in Rust
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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Rubyripper – secure audio CD ripping and encoding
Rubyripper securely extracts audio CDs with repeated reads, error analysis, MusicBrainz tags and support for multiple audio formats.
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HushMic – real-time microphone noise suppression
HushMic provides real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux, with PipeWire virtual input, local processing and adjustable controls.
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gytm – terminal-based YouTube Music player
gytm is a Rust-based YouTube Music TUI featuring searching, playlists, multi-account support, queue management and audio playback.
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ytm – terminal-based YouTube Music player
ytm is a terminal YouTube Music player with interactive search, queues, lyrics, radio, playlists and mpv-powered audio playback.
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