PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use open source audio player written in Python. Let’s see how it fares.
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Category: Multimedia
xine – plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs
xine is a powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback. It also serves as a library and engine for other software products.
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Musicly – simple music player
Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. Here’s Luke’s review.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia
For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple VoiceOver
Apple VoiceOver is a screen-reader that tells you exactly what’s happening on your device. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Mimic 3 – neural Text to Speech (TTS) engine
Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: Kooha – simple screen recorder
Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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4 Best Free and Open Source GUI Spotify Clients
These open source GUI Spotify clients lets you enjoy Spotify streaming without using the semi-official bloated app.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Spotify Clients
These text-based Spotify clients lets you enjoy Spotify streaming without using the semi-official bloated app.
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Spotube – Flutter based lightweight Spotify client
Spotube is billed as a “fast, modern, lightweight and efficient Spotify music client”. Here’s our verdict.
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TIDAL Hi-Fi – Electron-based software for TIDAL
TIDAL Hi-Fi is a third-party music streaming program using Castlabs’ version of Electron for widevine support.
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Streaming with Linux: TIDAL
TIDAL is a global music streaming platform. It was the first streaming service to offer hi-res audio thanks to its adoption of MQA technology.
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Streaming with Linux: Deezer
Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline.
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Streaming with Linux: Spotify
This is a new series that surveys popular streaming services from a Linux perspective. We look at the semi-official Linux client and third-party clients.
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spotify-player – command driven Spotify player
spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.
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