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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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YouTube

14 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Innovative developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. We recommend the best tools.

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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 is a plugin for mpv which allows control of the player using standard media keys.

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YouTube

ytcc – keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytcc is a command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.

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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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Musical instruments

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Lossless Audio Codec

July 11, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia

Apple Lossless Audio Codec is audio compression technology with lossless compression, a form of compression that preserves all original data.

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YouTube

Playlifin – sync YouTube playlists to Jellyfin

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Playlifin is a tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlist.

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CDROM

6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc.

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Sound Systems

Soundux is a cross-platform soundboard

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Soundux is a universal soundboard that uses PulseAudio modules or PipeWire linking.

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Music image

mpvc – mpc-like CLI tool for mpv

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpvc is a music player in POSIX-sh interfacing mpv from the shell and extras/goodies.

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Music

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Music Players

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection. We recommend the best terminal-based music players.

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Video Editing

Tsukimi is a third-party Emby client

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tsukimi is a simple third-party Emby client written in GTK4-RS, uses MPV as the video player, and GStreamer as the music player.

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Music text banner

MuseAmp is an audio normalizer for MP3/FLAC

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MuseAmp is an audio level normalizer/amplifier that makes your audio files play at the same normalized audio level.

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Streaming Music

High Tide is an unofficial TIDAL music client

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

High Tide is a third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device

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DJ

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.

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Singing

Chronograph – sync lyrics of your loved songs

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Chronograph is an app for syncing song lyrics by timestamps. It supports .ogg, .flac, .mp3, .m4a, .opus and .wav media formats.

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