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Best Free and Open Source Media Centers

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 impressive free Linux media centers.

Jellyfin is a free and open source media system to manage and stream media. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex.

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is an award-winning, free and open source digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software.

MythTV is a suite of software that allows you to build a Home Theater convergence box. MythTV is free and open source software.

OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Debian and Kodi. OSMC is free and open source.

LinHES is a Linux distribution designed for use on Home Theater PCs (HTPCs). It centers around MythTV and uses Arch Linux

LibreELEC is a lightweight ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution purpose-built for Kodi on current and popular media center hardware.

noise-repellent is a suite of lv2 plugins for noise reduction that uses the libspecbleach C library. It’s free and open source software.

This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. We only explore free and open source software here.

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files.

MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. Notes are entered on an “virtual note sheet”. It’s free and open source software.

TuxGuitar is a multitrack tablature editor and player writen in Java for editing, listening, learning or even writing a complete song.

Canorus is a graphical music score editor written for the Qt toolkit. It is a sequel of the well-known music score editor NoteEdit.

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor for KDE. It is a powerful program for creating and editing music notation.