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Category: Multimedia

Audio Analyzers

MasVisGtk – audio analysis tool

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MasVisGtk is a powerful and comprehensive audio analysis tool specifically designed for music enthusiasts, audio engineers, and others.

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Mixer

KMix – sound mixer

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KMix is an application that allows you to change the volume of your sound card.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 10 Best Free Tools for Linux

October 14, 2025 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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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.

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Mixer

Retrovol – volume setting program

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Retrovol is a volume setting program. It adds an icon to the tray that can be scrolled on to change the volume.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux MPRIS Tools

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

MPRIS is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.

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Speech

hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAMix is an ncurses/curses pulseaudio mixer written in C similar to pavucontrol.

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BPM Detect – automatic BPM detection tool

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BPM Detect is an automatic BPM (beats per minute) detection utility. It uses SoundTouch’s BPM library.

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Audio Analyzers

Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Mixer

wmsmixer – hack to wmmixer

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

wmsmixer is a hack to wmmixer which makes some changes to the display and adds a few new features, most notably scrollwheel support.

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Terminal Multiplexer

Decker – multimedia sketchpad

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.

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Music

8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients

September 26, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. We recommend our favourite open source graphical MPD clients.

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Mixer

wmmixer – mixer application designed for WindowMaker

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

wmmixer is a mixer application designed for WindowMaker. wmmixer displays the mixer status of your computer in a small icon.

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Music

Euphonica – MPD client with delusions of grandeur

September 25, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.

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Mixer

hyprmixer – volume mixer and media controller

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Hypermixer is billed as a stylish volume mixer and media controller for your hyprland rice.

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Music player

MPRIS MiniPlayer – small tool

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MPRIS MiniPlayer is a small program that displays whatever media in a MPRIS compatible player is playing.

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Radio

SDRangel – TX & RX Software Defined Radio

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

SDRangel is a Qt5 / OpenGL 3.0+ SDR and signal analyzer frontend to various hardware.

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Mixer

QasTools – collection of Qt-based mixer and setup tools

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

QasTools is a collection of Qt-based mixer and setup tools for the Linux sound system ALSA.

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Musical instruments

Danceinterpreter – display songs and dances at ballroom dance events

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

The Danceinterpreter is a utility to display songs and their according dances at ballroom dance events.

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