Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Category: Multimedia

Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

Read more
Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

Read more
Internet Radio

3 Best Free and Open Source Pandora Radio Clients

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming automated music recommendation service. We pick our favourite clients.

Read more
Music Streaming

Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Kino is a fast terminal client for browsing and playing media from Plex and Jellyfin servers.

Read more
Media Center

jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

jfsh is a terminal-based client for Jellyfin that lets you browse your media library and play videos via mpv. It’s inspired by jftui.

Read more
Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

Read more
YouTube

Rataplay – TUI to search, play and download videos

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Rataplay is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for searching, playing, and downloading videos. Built with Rust and inspired by GopherTube.

Read more
Musical instruments

daph – terminal-based music player

January 26, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

daph is a terminal-based music player for Linux. It’s written in the popular Rust language and published under an open source license.

Read more
Audio Analyzers

Soundscope – analyzing audio data

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Soundscope is a cross-platform CLI tool for analyzing audio files. It has a TUI interface.

Read more
Recording Studio

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screen Recorders

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A screen recorder is software which lets you capture a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration.

Read more
Video Editing

VideoCut – lossless video cutter

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VideoCut is a MP2/MP4 Cutter for Linux on base of mpv and ffmpeg. Cutting is lossless, the target file will not be reencoded.

Read more
Music Trackers

8 Best Free and Open Source Music Trackers

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. We recommend the best free and open source trackers.

Read more
YouTube

GoMusic – download and stream music from YouTube

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoMusic is a terminal UI for downloading and streaming music from YouTube with automatic MP3 conversion and metadata tagging.

Read more
Audio Analyzers

mp3rgain – lossless MP3 volume adjustment

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mp3rgain adjusts MP3 volume without re-encoding by modifying the global_gain field in each frame’s side information.

Read more
VoIP

5 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We recommend the finest Tox clients.

Read more
Video

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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more

Posts pagination

1 2 3 … 45 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on Site Updates: Our Plans
  • Luke Baker on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • BobsYourUncle on Site Updates: Our Plans
  • Tony U.K. on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • Luke Baker on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • Tony U.K. on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • Luke Baker on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • Tony U.K. on Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
  • Erik Karlsson on AfagOS – Linux distribution
  • Psyko on AfagOS – Linux distribution

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder
  • Zaz – terminal manipulation library
  • dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode
  • Xtop – TUI system monitor
  • Hummingbird – modern music player
  • 3 Best Free and Open Source Pandora Radio Clients
  • Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers
  • 32 Best Free and Open Source Linux Integrated Development Environments
  • jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin
  • 15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compilers

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.