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OpenBroadcaster – Broadcast Automation LPFM IPTV

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

OpenBroadcaster focuses on reliability, accessibility and scalability over a having a bloated range of half baked/buggy features.

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WiFi

FCast – wireless streaming of audio and video content

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

FCast is an open source protocol that enables wireless streaming of audio and video content between devices.

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Music player

Nova Music – new music player for Linux

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Nova Music is a new music player written with the libcosmic toolkit. It’s written in Rust.

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Media Center

OSMC – free and open source media center distribution

November 23, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro, Multimedia

OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Debian and Kodi. OSMC is free and open source.

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YouTube

Feather – YouTube Music TUI

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Feather is a lightweight, efficient, and locally hosted YouTube Music TUI built with Rust.

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RAW Tools

flix-cli – movie scraper

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

flix-cli is billed as a highly efficient, powerful and fast movie scraper.

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Mixer

wiremix – simple TUI audio mixer

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

wiremix is a simple TUI audio mixer for PipeWire. You can use it to adjust volumes, route audio between devices and applications

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Mixer

JackMiniMix – simple volume mixer

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

JackMiniMix is a simple mixer for the Jack Audio Connection Kit with an OSC based control interface.

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Mixer

RsMixer – PulseAudio volume mixer

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

RsMixer is a PulseAudio volume mixer written in the Rust language.

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Mixer

pulsemixer – CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, TUI

Pulsemixer is a CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio that’s a self-sufficient single-file Python app that doesn’t require any extra libraries.

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Mixer

pipemixer – TUI volume control software for pipewire

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pipemixer is a TUI volume control application for pipewire built with ncurses. It’s heavily inspired by pulsemixer and pwvucontrol.

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Mixer

pamixer – PulseAudio command line mixer

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

pamixer is like amixer but for PulseAudio. It can control the volume levels of the sinks.

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Video

Phantom Player – simple video player

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Phantom Player offers a range of practical features, making it easy to play, organize, and manage videos from your hard drive.

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Mixer

pacmixer – PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pacmixer is an interactive controller for PulseAudio mixers and settings.

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Audio Analyzers

Cable – tool to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cable is a PyQT GUI application to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings at runtime.

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Music

30 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Music Players

November 9, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source music players. There are an amazing range of music players to choose from.

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YouTube

NouTube – YouTube and YouTube Music in a single app

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

NouTube is a simple app that combines YouTube and YouTube Music in a single app.

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YouTube

Ytui-music – TUI YouTube Music Player

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Ytui-music is a Youtube client in the terminal for listening to music.

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Mixer

pavucontrol – audio mixer

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool (“mixer”) for the PulseAudio sound server.

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Video Editing

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter is a tool for exporting video recorded by Steam as MP4 files quickly and without losing any quality.

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