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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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Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

7 Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.

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Musical instruments

Audiveris – optical music recognition

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audiveris is an optical music recognition application that’s written in the Java language.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Soundboards

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.

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Sound System

6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems

February 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.

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