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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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Voice Recognition

VoiceGen – text to speech converter

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VoiceGen is a simple text-to-speech application, with support for multiple offline/online engines such as svox and Amazon Polly.

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Configuring music

Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Millisecond provides system diagnostics and offers tips to improve low latency performance for audio production.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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Speech

Whispering – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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Mixer

deej – open-source hardware volume mixer

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

deej is an open-source hardware volume mixer for Linux and Windows computers.

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Internet Radio

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Internet, Mini PC, Multimedia

We maintain a roundup of the finest internet radio software. Let’s take a look at the top entries from a Raspberry Pi 5 perspective.

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Music

Kalorite – lightweight audio player

October 20, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia

Kalorite is a small-size Qt6 audio player that aims to be modern and easy-to-use made for the developer’s needs to use on KDE.

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Singing

LRCGET – download synced LRC lyrics

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

LRCGET is a utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.

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Audio Analyzers

MasVisGtk – audio analysis tool

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MasVisGtk is a powerful and comprehensive audio analysis tool specifically designed for music enthusiasts, audio engineers, and others.

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Mixer

KMix – sound mixer

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KMix is an application that allows you to change the volume of your sound card.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.

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Mixer

Retrovol – volume setting program

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Retrovol is a volume setting program. It adds an icon to the tray that can be scrolled on to change the volume.

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Speech

hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAMix is an ncurses/curses pulseaudio mixer written in C similar to pavucontrol.

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