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Tag: music
Linux at Home: Digital Music Production with Linux
DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is an important tool in your creative arsenal.
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ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc
ncmpcpp is a terminal-based MPD client with a user interface that seeks inspiration from ncmpc and shares a lot of similarities.
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Carbon Player – desktop media player
Carbon Player is a cross-platform media player written in JavaScript and uses Electron.
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mpdevil – simple music browser for MPD
mpdevil is a simple music browser for MPD. mpdevil is free and open source software that’s written in Python.
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theBeat – audio player
theBeat is an audio player that’s based on Phonon, the multimedia API provided by KDE.
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Pogo – minimalist music player
Pogo is billed as a fast and minimalist audio player for Linux. Here’s our review.
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Ymuse – GTK front-end (client) for Music Player Daemon
Ymuse is a simple and quick client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) using the GTK toolkit.
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Herrie – minimalistic music player
Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems.
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mpz – open source music player
mpz is a music player that’s designed for large, locally stored, music collections. Here’s our review on this open source software.
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Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players
Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. How did this merry band of open source software fare?
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Musiko – cross-platform music player
Musiko is a free to use, open source and cross platform music player. It supports a good range of audio formats including both lossy and lossless formats. Here’s our review.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
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LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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Violin – minimalistic desktop music player
Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.
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Yarock – excellent Qt music player with browsing based on cover art
Yarock is billed as “a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment”.
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qoob – excellent foobar-like music player for Linux
Are you debilitated by the countless music players that use web technologies with a massive RAM footprint? Maybe you want a lean yet slick audio player with a good range of features?
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