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Music

9 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients

March 19, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, Web Apps

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.

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Media Center

Best Free and Open Source Media Centers

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 impressive free Linux media centers.

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TV

Plezy – modern Plex client for desktop and mobile

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Plezy is a cross-platform Plex client built with Flutter for desktop and mobile systems.

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Video

Open RV – image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation artists

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

OpenRV is an image and sequence viewer for visual effects and animation artists. It is designed for high-performance, hardware-accelerated media playback and review.

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Video Players

Bino – 3D video player focused on stereoscopic video and virtual reality

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Bino is a 3D video player focused on stereoscopic video and virtual reality. It supports a wide range of 3D video formats

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mrv2 – flipbook, video, and audio player

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

mrv2 is a professional media player and review tool for visual effects, animation, and computer graphics workflows.

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Video

xSTUDIO – media playback and review application

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xSTUDIO is a media playback and review application aimed at film and television post-production workflows.

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Musical instruments

BinauralPlayer – media player

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BinauralPlayer integrates audio and video playback with tools for generating binaural beats and brainwave-based audio signals.

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Video

DJV – media playback and review app

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

DJV is a frame-accurate media playback and review application aimed at film, VFX and animation workflows.

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Music player

hrmp – command line music player for Linux

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, TUI

hrmp is a command line music player for Linux (ALSA) based systems. hrmp focuses on high-resolution loss-less files (44.1kHz+/16bit+).

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Audio Programming

Audimorf – Linux audio file converter

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audimorf is a straightforward tool for changing the format of your audio files. It is built to feel right at home on the GNOME desktop

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Proprietary App of the Week

Namida – feature-rich music / video player for Linux, Android, and Windows

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Proprietary, Reviews

Namida is a modern music and video player. The application aims to combine an attractive interface with a powerful local music library

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Musical concept image

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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