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20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools

June 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.

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Dynamic Music Pill – GNOME Shell extension

June 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that adds a polished desktop music widget for MPRIS-compatible players.

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Audio Analyzers

asak – terminal audio tool

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, TUI

asak is a terminal audio tool that provides a keyboard-driven interface for working with audio files.

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Composing Music

12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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YouTube

GopherTube – terminal YouTube client for searching and watching videos

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GopherTube is a terminal YouTube client for searching and watching videos without using a full web browser.

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Mixer

10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Volume Mixers

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, TUI

A volume mixer is a tool that adjusts the individual volume levels of different applications and audio devices running on a computer.

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Mixer

alsamixer – terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

alsamixer provides an ncurses interface for inspecting and adjusting mixer controls on Linux sound devices.

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Audio

12 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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Mixer

14 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Volume Mixers

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia, Roundup

A volume mixer is a tool that adjusts the individual volume levels of different applications and audio devices running on a computer.

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Mixer

Mixxc – GTK4-based volume mixer for Linux

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixxc is a GTK4-based volume mixer for Linux desktop setups that favour compact, widget-style tools rather than full control panels.

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Mixer

pavucontrol-qt – Pulseaudio mixer in Qt

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

pavucontrol-qt is a Qt port of pavucontrol, the PulseAudio volume control utility.

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Audio Analyzers

25 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well.

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Synthesizers

21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Synthesizers

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth, is computer software which creates digital audio. We feature the best free synthesizers.

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Synthesizers

Six Sines – small synthesizer

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Six Sines is a compact software synthesizer built around audio-rate inter-modulation.

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Synthesizers

Actuate – subtractive and additive synthesizer, sampler, and granulizer

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Actuate is a software instrument plugin for music production and sound design.

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Audio Editors

Spek-rs – acoustic spectrum analyser

May 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Spek-rs is an acoustic spectrum analyser that creates spectrograms from audio files and wraps FFmpeg’s showspectrumpic functionality.

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Audio Analyzers

Partiels – audio analysis tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Partiels is an audio analysis suite for studying the content and characteristics of sound files.

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Audio Editors

Open Sound Meter – measurement tool

May 15, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Open Sound Meter is a cross-platform measurement application for tuning sound systems in real time.

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YouTube

ytm-player – terminal-based client for YouTube Music

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ytm-player provides a keyboard-driven interface for browsing and playing music from a YouTube Music account.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 20 Best Free Tools for Linux

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, Roundup

This roundup looks at the finest software-defined radio tools for Linux including apps that let you listen to DAB and DAB+ broadcasts.

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