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Category: Multimedia

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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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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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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