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Video Editors

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Editors

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Linux represents an excellent platform for editing video. We recommend the best free and open source video editors.

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Streaming Music

cmusfm – Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cmusfm allows to configure regular expression patterns for local files and for shoutcast streaming services.

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Music image

Web Scrobbler – scrobble playback history

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history.

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Music image

mpris-scrobbler – minimalistic user daemon

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpris-scrobbler is a minimalistic user daemon which submits the currently playing song to libre.fm and compatible services.

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Music player

mpris-ctl – control music players

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpris-ctl is a minimalistic command-line interface tool for controlling audio players exposing a MPRIS DBus interface.

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Musical instruments

Maloja – simple self-hosted music scrobble database

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Maloja is a simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics.

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myMPD

Koito – ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Koito is a modern, themeable ListenBrainz-compatible scrobbler for self-hosters who want control over their data and insights

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Music

empress – MPRIS media controls made simple

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

empress is a simple command-line abstraction over the D-Bus MPRIS specification which allows for querying and controlling media players.

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WebRTC

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux WebRTC Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

WebRTC is real-time communication for the web, enabling video, voice, and data transfer between peers using an open standard.

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Music text banner

playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification.

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Terminal Session Recording

rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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Musical instruments

mpd-mpris – MPRIS protocol for MPD

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpd-mpris is an implementation of the MPRIS protocol for MPD. The Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification (MPRIS) is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players. It provides a mechanism for discovery,

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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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