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Music

rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS

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fooyin

fooyin v0.9.1 is released – the best open source music player gets better

August 19, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The new release adds some neat features and improvements.

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Streaming Music

cmusfm – Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cmusfm allows to configure regular expression patterns for local files and for shoutcast streaming services.

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Music image

Web Scrobbler – scrobble playback history

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history.

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Music image

mpris-scrobbler – minimalistic user daemon

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpris-scrobbler records listening activity from MPRIS media players and submits tracks to Last.fm, Libre.fm, and ListenBrainz.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a lightweight command-line utility for controlling MPRIS media players and displaying detailed playback metadata.

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Musical instruments

Maloja – simple self-hosted music scrobble database

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Maloja is a simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics.

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myMPD

Koito – ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Koito is a modern, themeable ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler for self-hosters who want control over their data and insights

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Music

empress – MPRIS media controls made simple

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

empress is a simple command-line abstraction over the D-Bus MPRIS specification which allows for querying and controlling media players.

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Music text banner

playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling MPRIS media players, querying metadata, and tracking active players.

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Terminal Session Recording

rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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Musical instruments

mpd-mpris – MPRIS protocol for MPD

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpd-mpris exposes Music Player Daemon through MPRIS, bringing MPD playback, metadata, artwork, and seeking to desktop controls.

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Video Conversion

Constrict – compress videos to target sizes

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Constrict compresses your videos to your chosen file size — useful for uploading to services with specific file size limits.

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Identity in action

Identity – compare images and videos

July 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Multimedia

Identity is a program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

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Configuring music

Elektroid – sample and MIDI device manager

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

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Musical instruments

Tempo – metronome for musicians

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tempo is a reliable metronome application designed for musicians of all levels. Built with modern GTK4 and Libadwaita

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Video Editing

mpv-mpris – plugin for mpv

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv-mpris adds an MPRIS D-Bus interface to mpv, enabling desktop media controls, metadata reporting, artwork, and media keys.

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YouTube

ytcc – track video playlists and podcast subscriptions

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytcc tracks new videos and podcasts from subscribed playlists, with watched status, terminal playback, downloads, and RSS output.

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Video Editors

GoZen – minimalistic video editor

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

GoZen is a lightweight, stable, minimalistic, and performant video editor with simplicity in mind.

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Digital Asset Management

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Motion FX

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia

Autodesk Motion FX is software to create real-time video effects using your computer’s camera. It’s also a video editor.

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