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Download manager

Lux – download library and CLI tool

February 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more.

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fooyin

fooyin – customisable music player

February 4, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Fooyin is billed as a customisable music player. It’s based on Qt 6.6.1, written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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Dusk Player

Dusk Player – Electron-based music player

January 29, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player.

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YouTube

pytubefix – library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

pytubefix is a lightweight, Pythonic, dependency-free, library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

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YouTube

YTerMusic – YouTube Music Client

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

YTerMusic is a terminal based YouTube Music Player. It aims to be as fast and simple as possible.

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YouTube

YouTube TUI – lightweight and user friendly TUI for browsing YouTube

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

YouTube TUI is a lightweight and user friendly TUI frontend for browsing YouTube content from the terminal. It uses other software such as mpv and yt-dlp.

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Video Editing

ClipGrab – downloader for YouTube and other sites

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

ClipGrab is billed as a fast Qt-based standalone tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other streaming websites.

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Video

8 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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YouTube

FreeTube – privacy-based YouTube app

January 24, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

FreeTube is a cross-platform, free and open source YouTube client built around using YouTube more privately.

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Music sketch

RMuP – TUI music player

January 23, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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YouTube

Piped – frontend for YouTube

January 23, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Piped is an alternative frontend for YouTube which aims to be efficient by design.

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Video

Memento – mpv-based video player for studying Japanese

January 21, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Memento is an mpv-based video player that makes studying Japanese easier with a built in popup dictionary, Anki integration, and more.

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Music

Nora is billed as an elegant music player

January 21, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Nora is billed as an elegant music player. It’s built using Electron and React. This is free and open source software.

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Video Tools

Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp

January 17, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Video Downloader is a tool which lets you download videos from YouTube and other websites.

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Video Tools

Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools

January 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Electric Guitar

Dopamine – Electron-based music player

January 3, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dopamine is an open source music player that uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies.

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Video Editing

GridPlayer – play multiple videos simultaneously

January 1, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

GridPlayer is Python-based software which lets you watch videos side-by-side.

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Music

kew – command-line music player

November 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.

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