Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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Author: Luke Baker
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Week 1
This is a weekly blog where I share my experiences of using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement using free and open source software.
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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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Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player
Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.
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Musicalypse – audio player and server built with Web technologies
Musicalypse is cross-platform software that offers both an audio player and server functionality. It’s built with web technologies.
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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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cli-visualizer – command line visualizer for MPD, ALSA and PulseAudio
cli-visualizer is a command line visualizer inspired by C.A.V.A, ncmpcpp, and rainbow. It’s free and open source software.
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LyricPad – access lyrics over the web with this Qt based app
LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.
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fre:ac – free audio converter and CD ripper
fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between a variety of popular formats.
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Olivia – Elegant, Powerful Cloud Music Player For Linux
Olivia is an online/offline cloud-based music player like iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube Music. Olivia allows you to search any music online stream it, You can set the player to save your streams while playback. Olivia lets you create and manage your music library.
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abcde – CD ripping software for the command line
abcde is a Bash script that grabs CDs and compresses it to a wide range of formats. Read Luke’s verdict of this open source script.
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Goodvibes – internet radio player
Goodvibes is billed as a lightweight internet radio player offering a simple way to access your favorite radio stations. Here’s my review of this open source radio player.
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Curseradio – curses interface for browsing and playing internet radio
Curseradio is a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.
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StreamTuner2 – internet radio station and video browser
Streamtuner2 is a GUI for browsing internet radio directories, music collections, and video services – grouped by genres or categories. It runs your preferred audio player or streamripper for recording.
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