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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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Music Festival

tap v0.4.11 – terminal-based music player

November 24, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. Here’s my take on v0.4.11.

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Terminal Session Recording

screencast – interface to record a X11 desktop

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

screencast is a command line interface to record a X11 desktop using FFmpeg, having support for offline recording and live streaming.

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Terminal Session Recording

ffscreencast – shell wrapper for ffmpeg

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

ffscreencast is a shell wrapper for ffmpeg that allows fool-proof screen recording via the command line.

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Music

Volumio – audiophile music player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Volumio is an audiophile music player which works on embedded systems: small, low consuming and cheap computers.

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Music

qomp – music player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Quick Online Music Player (qomp) is a very easy to use music player for various online music services.

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Music

Yarock – easy and pretty music browser based on cover art

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Yarock is a modern looking music player, jam packed with features, that does not depend on any specific desktop environment.

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Music

Pragha – lightweight music player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Pragha is a lightweight open source music player based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C. It is designed to be fast and light.

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Music

Mesk – audio player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Mesk is an open source audio player. It’s written in Python with a Gtk+ graphical user interface.

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