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Audio Editors

Spek-rs – acoustic spectrum analyser

May 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Spek-rs is an acoustic spectrum analyser that creates spectrograms from audio files and wraps FFmpeg’s showspectrumpic functionality.

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Audio Analyzers

Partiels – audio analysis tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Partiels is an audio analysis suite for studying the content and characteristics of sound files.

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Audio Editors

Open Sound Meter – measurement tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Open Sound Meter is a cross-platform measurement application for tuning sound systems in real time.

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YouTube

ytm-player – terminal-based client for YouTube Music

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ytm-player provides a keyboard-driven interface for browsing and playing music from a YouTube Music account.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 20 Best Free Tools for Linux

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, Roundup

This roundup looks at the finest software-defined radio tools for Linux including apps that let you listen to DAB and DAB+ broadcasts.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux MPRIS Tools

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

MPRIS is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.

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Mixer

Mini EQ – compact system-wide parametric equalizer

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mini EQ is a compact system-wide parametric equalizer for Linux desktops using PipeWire.

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Terminal Session Recording

20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

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multimon-ng – decoder for a broad range of digital transmission modes

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

multimon-ng is a command-line decoder for a broad range of digital transmission modes used in radio and signalling workflows.

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Radio

inspectrum – radio signal analyser for examining captured signals

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

inspectrum is a radio signal analyser for examining captured signals, with a particular focus on recordings from software-defined radio receivers.

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SigDigger – digital signal analyzer and graphical front end for Suscan

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

SigDigger is a Qt-based digital signal analyzer and graphical front end for Suscan that’s designed to help investigate and extract information.

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Sound Systems

10 Useful Free and Open Source Audio Effects, Mixers, and PipeWire Routing Tools

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This type of software is useful for musicians, streamers, podcasters, gamers, and anyone who wants more control over how audio flows.

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Terminal Session Recording

rec – records terminal sessions

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rec is a command-line utility that records terminal sessions and turns them into reusable workflows.

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Mixer

pwvucontrol – Pipewire volume control

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pwvucontrol is a PipeWire volume control applet that offers a graphical way to manage audio streams and devices on Linux.

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Radio

rtl_433 – receives and decodes radio transmissions

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rtl_433 is a command-line utility that receives and decodes radio transmissions from low-power devices operating on common ISM bands.

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mprisence – bridges MPRIS-compatible media players

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

mprisence is a Linux application that bridges MPRIS-compatible media players with Discord Rich Presence.

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Mixer

LSP Plugins – audio production suite

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Linux Studio Plugins is an audio production suite that provides a broad collection of studio-oriented plug-ins for Linux.

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sdrtrunk – SDR tool

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

sdrtrunk is a Java-based application for decoding, monitoring, recording, and streaming trunked mobile and related radio protocols.

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Video Conversion

FrameExtractor – modern video frame extraction utility

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

FrameExtractor is a modern video frame extraction utility built with Flutter.

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Radio

SDR++ Community Edition – advanced Software-Defined Radio

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

SDR++ Community Edition is a cross-platform software-defined radio application and a community-driven fork of SDR++

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