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22 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube. Here’s our recommended terminal-based YouTube tools.

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Guitar

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Guitar Tools

September 30, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This feature recommends the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is open source, free to download, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.

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mpdris2-rs – expose MPD playback through MPRIS2

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpdris2-rs is a lightweight Rust bridge exposing MPD playback and queue information through MPRIS2, with remote cover art support.

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ruxguitar – Guitar Pro tablature player

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ruxguitar is a free and open source Guitar Pro tablature player with MIDI playback, tempo control, track selection and SoundFont support.

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Music

Scrobblet – lightweight self-hosted music scrobbler

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Scrobblet is a lightweight self-hosted scrobbler that sends Spotify listening activity to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Maloja, Koito and CSV.

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Music

Open Scrobbler – web-based Last.fm scrobbling client

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Open Scrobbler is a web-based Last.fm client for manually scrobbling tracks, albums, setlists and listening history from other users.

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20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors

September 1, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 20 high quality free and open source audio editors.

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Music Education

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Educational Music Software

August 17, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Multimedia, Roundup

Music education is a field of study connected with the learning and teaching of music. We recommend the best open source educational apps.

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Music

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Servers

August 14, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

We present the finest free and open source music servers.

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Sound System

6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems

July 30, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.

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Music

27 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Music Players

July 26, 2026 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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Music

9 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

July 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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Internet Radio

4 Best Free and Open Source Pandora Radio Clients

July 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming automated music recommendation service. We pick our favourite clients.

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Music Trackers

11 Best Free and Open Source Music Trackers

July 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. We recommend the best free and open source trackers.

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Music

38 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Music Players

June 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source music players. There are an amazing range of music players to choose from.

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Internet Radio

27 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software

June 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the finest free and open source GUI internet radio tools.

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line – command-line MIDI sequencer for live coding

June 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

line is a command-line MIDI sequencer for live coding music, with editable phrases, notes, chords, tempo controls and phrase manipulation.

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Music

10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients

April 30, 2026 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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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Music player

Lidarr – automated music collection management

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Lidarr organises music libraries with release monitoring, quality upgrades, track renaming, NZB downloading and media server integration.

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