YouTube has over 2 billion monthly logged-in users with people watching over a billion hours of video a day. What open source alternatives are available?
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Category: Multimedia
Videomass – cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl
Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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GabTag – audio tagging tool
GabTag is an audio tagging tool written in GTK 3, which makes it friendly for GTK based desktop users. GabTag is free and open source.
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qytdl – Qt frontend for Youtube-DL
qytdl (long-form: qYoutube-DL) is a Qt frontend to Youtube-DL. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging
We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.
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HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC – Hardware Acceleration in Firefox – Week 4
For this weekly blog we set up hardware graphics acceleration in Firefox.
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Tuner – radio station player
Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros.
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HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC – Multimedia – Week 3
Our weekly blog looks at the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC testing its multimedia capabilities.
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mmtc – minimal mpd terminal client
mmtc is billed as a minimal MPD terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable.
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Lenovo M93 Ultra Small Desktop PC- OBS Studio – Week 6
This week’s blog looks at video recording on the Lenovo M93 using OBS Studio.
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Reco – audio recording app designed for elementary OS
Reco is an audio recording app designed for elementary OS. Reco is free and open source software. Here’s our review of Reco.
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SongRec – open source Shazam client
SongRec is an open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.
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vimpc – vi/vim inspired client for mpd
vimpc is a vi/vim inspired client for the Music Player Daemon (mpd). vimpc is free and open source software.
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Best Free Android Apps: foobar2000 – advanced audio player
foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for mobile devices with full ReplayGain support, gapless playback, and UPnP support.
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Android: Neutron Music Player – feature-laden player
Neutron is billed as “… an advanced music player with the bare-metal 32/64-bit audio engine which delivers the best possible Hi-Fi grade quality of sound.”
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Best Free Android Apps: Shazam – identify songs app
Shazam can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample.
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Best Free Android Apps: VLC – media player
VLC is a highly respected free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework.
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Best Free Android Apps: Musicolet – offline music player
Musicolet is billed as a small yet powerful offline music player which organizes and plays local audio-files stored on your device.
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Linux at Home: Learn an Instrument with Linux
Learning and playing an instrument has some real benefits to boosting your mood and mental health, as it sparks electrical signals using both sides of your brain.
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Best Free Android Apps: Radioplayer – listen to hundreds of UK stations
Radioplayer is an Android app that lets you listen to hundreds of UK radio stations.
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