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Category: Multimedia

Music Player

CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!

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Musical instruments

mufetch – neofetch-style CLI for music

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mufetch displays beautiful music information with cover art in your terminal. Search for tracks, albums, or artists.

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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

7 Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.

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Musical instruments

Audiveris – optical music recognition

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audiveris is an optical music recognition application that’s written in the Java language.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Soundboards

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.

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Sound System

6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems

February 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.

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Selection of utilities

MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MapWizard is a modern tool for osu! beatmap editing, designed to streamline your workflow with features like hitsound transfer.

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Musical concept image

Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal

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Image of small orchestra

tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Audio

Tanin – ambient noise generator

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Tanin is a simple, focused TUI ambient noise generator. Focus, relax, or sleep with your favorite background sounds

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Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Tag Editors

February 23, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

Tag editors are frequently used to correct and organise multimedia files and they support popular digital audio formats.

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Mixer

AnalogVUMeter – classic analog stereo VU meter

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

AnalogVUMeter is a cross-platform desktop application that visually replicates a classic analog stereo VU meter (needle-style)

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Zap – play sound effects

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Play all your favorite sound effects! This soundboard makes your livestreams and videocasts more entertaining.

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CDROM

Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Soundboardd is a small local soundboard daemon that preloads audio files from a configuration file and plays them on request.

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CasterSoundboard – podcasting tool

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

CasterSoundboard is a soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. It’s designed for podcasting.

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Graphics card image

GPU-Viewer – frontend to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GPU-Viewer aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

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Digital Asset Management

5 Best Free and Open Source Digital Asset Management Software

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Digital asset management (DAM) allows organization to obtain greater value from creative digital assets like images and videos by making them easy to organize, access, catalogue, find, retrieve and distribute.

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Audio

10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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