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Category: Multimedia

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Astra is billed as an audiophile music player

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Astra is a music player designed for playing local music files, whether your collection consists of FLAC, MP3, or other common audio formats.

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YouTube

NeoDLP – feature-rich video/audio downloader based on yt-dlp

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

NeoDLP (Neo Downloader Plus) is a cross-platform application that provides a graphical interface for the popular yt-dlp media downloader.

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Television

KokoVP – cross-platform mpv frontend

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KokoVP aims to reimplement the core functionality of SMPlayer from scratch using a cleaner modular architecture .

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Subtitles

7 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Downloaders

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A subtitle is a text representation of the dialogue, narration, music, or sound effects in a video file.

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CDROM

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Console Audio Grabbers

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output.

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Subtitles

lssub – search and download subtitles

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

lssub is a terminal user interface application written in Rust for searching and downloading subtitles through the OpenSubtitles API.

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Music Education

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Educational Music Software

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Multimedia, Roundup

Music education is a field of study connected with the learning and teaching of music. We recommend the best open source educational apps.

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YouTube

ytdl-gui – graphical interface for yt-dlp

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ytdl-gui is a simple-to-use tool to download videos or audios from various sources including Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo…

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YouTube

musicfetch-ng – download and tag music from YouTube

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

With Musicfetch you can use the power of yt-dlp to search for Albums, Songs or Playlists, download them.

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Internet Radio

Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Receiver is an awesome open source internet radio player. If you like internet radio, you really should try it today!

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Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Servers

March 9, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

We present the finest free and open source music servers.

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Video Conversion

Leonardo – media conversion application

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Leonardo is a media conversion application that provides a graphical interface for converting audio and video files using FFmpeg.

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YouTube

Sunder – desktop YouTube music client

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Sunder is a native desktop music player that streams from YouTube without the bloat.

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Music player

GoPlaying – TUI showing what’s playing

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoPlaying is a Now Playing TUI written in Go. Display currently playing music with album artwork and auto-extracted colors in your terminal.

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YouTube

Mixtapes – modern, Linux-first YouTube Music player

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixtapes (formerly Muse) is a modern, Linux-first YouTube Music player.

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VoIP

17 Best Free and Open Source GUI Matrix Clients

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. Here’s our recommended free and open source GUI Matrix clients.

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Video Editing

EasyPlayer – simple video and audio player

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

EasyPlayer is a lightweight multimedia player for Linux. It originated as a small spin-off component of the VideoCut project

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Guitar

tTune – guitar tuning app

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

tTune is a stylized, keyboard oriented guitar tuning app right in your terminal.

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Music Player

CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!

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Musical instruments

mufetch – neofetch-style CLI for music

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mufetch displays beautiful music information with cover art in your terminal. Search for tracks, albums, or artists.

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