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Music

Ratic – offline music player

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ratic is an offline music player for Linux. It’s designed for playing local music collections rather than relying on streaming services.

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CDROM

Laser – simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Laser offers a straightforward graphical interface for extracting audio tracks from compact discs.

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Selection of utilities

GstPipelineStudio – build, visualise, and debug multimedia pipelines using the GStreamer framework

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GstPipelineStudio is a graphical tool for building, visualising, and debugging multimedia pipelines using the GStreamer framework.

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Internet radio

RadioGoGo – surf global radio waves

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

RadioGoGo is a terminal application for browsing and playing internet radio stations. Written in Go, it uses the RadioBrowser API.

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ampd

mpdscribble – MPD client

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mpdscribble is a client for Music Player Daemon that submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services such as Last.fm.

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Audio

5 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Background Noise Generators

April 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

Soul Player – local-first music player built for privacy

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Soul Player is a modern desktop music player focused on local-first playback and user privacy.

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Audio

ANoise – ambient noise player

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

ANoise is an ambient noise player for Ubuntu designed to play looping environmental sounds from a lightweight desktop application.

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Musical instruments

Nocturne – Navidrome / Jellyfin client

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Nocturne is a Navidrome / Jellyfin client that brings all your music together in one place

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Audio

onsen – rain sounds and white noise

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

onsen is a small Python command line utility that brings a relaxing hot-springs theme to the terminal.

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CDROM

6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

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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Musical instruments

mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.

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Webcam Tools

GNOME Cam Overlay – webcam preview as a borderless overlay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cam Overlay is a lightweight utility designed to add graphical overlays to video streams, for use with camera feeds and live video processing.

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Audio

Noisedash – self-hostable web tool to generate ambient noises

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Noisedash is a self-hostable web application for building ambient soundscapes in the browser.

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Internet Radio

Receiver continues to go from strength to strength

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

This internet radio app is definitely worth a download.

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DJ

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

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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Audio Analyzers

ShoopDaLoop – advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements

April 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ShoopDaLoop is an advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements.

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Typing

Speed of Sound – voice typing for the Linux desktop

April 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speed of Sound is a voice typing application to dictate text and have it automatically transcribed into any focused application.

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Foreign Languages

Glate – Google Translator and Text To Speech Service on Linux Desktop

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Glate is a desktop application for Linux that provides text translation and text-to-speech capabilities using Google’s translation services.

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Media Center

Switchfin – third-party native Jellyfin client

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Switchfin is a third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

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