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Now and Then - Music Players

Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players

September 27, 2020 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

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

Musiko – cross-platform music player

September 25, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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

Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database

April 6, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player

January 27, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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

LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist

January 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.

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Music Tools

17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps

January 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Software

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

cmus – free terminal-based audio player

September 16, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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

Violin – minimalistic desktop music player

August 16, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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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Qoob

Yarock – excellent Qt music player with browsing based on cover art

March 1, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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

qoob – excellent foobar-like music player for Linux

February 22, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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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