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Music visualization

OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

OpenMeters is a fast and simple audio metering application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire. It’s in active development.

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musical notes

NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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YouTube

tuitube – TUI to download videos

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

tuitube is a TUI to download videos from YouTube, 𝕏, Twitch, Instagram, Bilibili and more using yt-dlp CLI.

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DVD Authoring

4 Best Free and Open Source DVD Authoring Tools

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article showcases the best free and open source DVD authoring tools that run under Linux.

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Music

7 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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YouTube

xytz – TUI frontend for yt-dlp

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

xytz is a TUI app for searching and downloading YouTube videos, built with Go and Bubble Tea. It uses yt-dlp.

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Video Conversion

ffdash – VP9 video encoder

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ffdash is a terminal UI for batch VP9/AV1 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring.

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Musical concept image

Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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Television

Cine – mpv frontend

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cine combines a clean interface with a high-performance engine to deliver a seamless viewing experience.

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YouTube

Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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YouTube

Youwee – YouTube video downloader

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Youwee is billed as a modern, beautiful YouTube video downloader built with Tauri and React.

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Digital Audio Workstations

12 Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.

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RAW Tools

luffy – watch movies and TV from the command-line

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

luffy is billed as a spiritual successor of flix-cli and mov-cli. It’s cross-platform software written in the Go language.

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Music

mopidy – extensible music server

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python with extension support.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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