- 1tracker - a modular music tracker that supports dozens of ZX Spectrum beeper music engines, plus very basic SN76489 and YM2413 engines; source code
- AcetoneISO - a tool to mount BIN/CUE, ISO, and etc. as virtual discs; use it to convert ISO's, Mac DMG's, and folders; use it to encrypt images; it does a LOT of things
- Ardour - a digital audio workstation
- Asunder CD Ripper - graphical audio CD ripper and encoder
- Audacity - graphical cross-platform audio editor
- Cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
- Clementine - a modern music player and library organizer
- DeaDBeeF - a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems
- DevedeNG - easily create video DVDs and so forth by just adding files and tweak a few settings
- DVDStyler - easily create video DVDs; capable of having a chapter selection menu; has an experimental HD option in settings
- E-Pyo - sound synthesis and audio signal processing environment
- espeakedit - eSpeak voice editor
- Ex Falso - audio tag editor
- FreeWheeling - live looping musical instrument
- Gespeaker - a GTK+ frontend for eSpeak and mbrola
- gMTP - simple MP3 player client for MTP based devices
- Guitarix - a Rock guitar amplifier for Jack
- guvcview - a simple GTK+ interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the Linux UVC driver
- hUGETracker - a modular music tracker for Game Boy music development; UGE files can be used with GB Studio; if there are audio playback issues, especially with channel 3, and if the beginning if each channel in the first pattern contains "82B," remove it.
- Hydrogen - a simple drum machine/step sequencer; click here to add a lot more drumkits
- Hypnotix - an IPTV streaming application with support for live TV, movies and series
- ISO Master - an ISO image editor
- K3b - KDE CD burning program
- Kdenlive - an open source non-linear video editor
- Kodi - open-source home theater software
- LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) - software for easy music production; make sure to also install the 'carla', 'drumgizmo', and 'zynaddsubfx-data' packages
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- MeloMIDI - a music to MIDI converter
- MilkyTacker - music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files
- mpv - a media player
- Munt - an MT-32 sound module emulator. Need roms? Click here at your own risk...
- MuseScore2 - create, play, and print sheet music
- OBS - free and open source software for video recording and live streaming
- OpenShot - non-linear video editor
- Patchage - a modular patch bay for audio and MIDI systems based on Jack and Alsa
- PhysMo - video motion analysis
- PitchBox - real-time voice and music changer
- projectM - cross-platform music visualization
- pavucontrol - a volume control for the PulseAudio sound server
- ProTrekkr - tracker program combined with a software synthesizer (requires working /dev/dsp)
- QjackCtl - a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon
- QMidiArp - MIDI arpeggiator and LFO
- Qt V4L2 test Utility - test bench application for video4linux devices
- Quod Libet - audio library manager and player
- Radio Tray - an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray
- Rakarrack - guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux
- Schism Tracker - tracked music editor based on Impulse Tracker
- SMTube - an application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos
- Sonic Visualiser - an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files
- Sound Juicers - a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer
- Strawberry - a more up-to-date fork of Clementine, a music player and music collection organizer
- Streamlink Twitch GUI - a multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
- StreamPi (GUI version) - live stream or locally record desktop on older/lighter hardware
- Streamtuner2 - browser for Internet Radio Stations
- Trackers (music) for Linux
- VLC media player - a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
- vokoscreenNG - an easy to use screencast creator
- Webcamoid - full featured webcam capture application
- Xfburn - simple CD/DVD burning tool
- Yoshimi - a software music synthesiser
- ZynAddSubFX - a software synthesizer
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- abc2abc - a simple abc checker/re-formatter/transposer
- abc2midi - converts abc file to MIDI file(s)
- abcmatch - search for specific sequences of notes in an abc file composed of many tunes
- aconnect - ALSA sequencer connection manager
- alsamixer - soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface
- asciinema - terminal session recorder
- audio-to-midi - convert a regular audio file to midi using Python
- bpm-tools - calculate the tempo of music files; the 'bpm-tag' command is what you want to use to tag and or print BMP information
- bristol - a synthesiser emulation package
- cava - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa (MPD and Pulseaudio)
- cdw - front-end for cdrecord, mkisofs, growisofs, mkudffs and other tools
- dvdauthor - assembles multiple mpeg program streams into a suitable DVD filesystem
- dvd+rw-mediainfo - creates a slideshow movie in DVD video format from a list of pictures and effects
- ecasound - sample editor, multitrack recorder, fx-processor, etc.
- espeak - a multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
- festival - a text-to-speech system
- ffcrt.sh - a BASH script that uses ffmpeg to convert video and animated GIFs to look like they come from a CRT screen
- ffmpeg - tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files
- ffplay - FFplay media player
- hasciicam - webcam ascii viewer
- Hydrogen - a simple drum machine/step sequencer; howto for command-line
- libdvdcss - needed to play DVD's
- melt - author, play, and encode multitrack audio/video compositions
- midi2abc - program to convert MIDI format files to abc notation
- mikmod - play soundtracker etc. modules on a Unix machine
- moc (mocp) - console audio player; I recommend using 'mocp -T nightly_theme'
- mps-youtube (mpsyt) - search and play YouTube music and videos
- mpv - a media player
- openmpt123 - command line module music player based on libopenmpt
- pacmd - reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime
- pactl - control a running PulseAudio sound server
- pamix - ncurses based pulseaudio mixer for the commandline
- pmidi - a midi file player for ALSA
- pulsemixer - CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio
- pyradio - play internet radio stations from the command-line
- radio - console radio application to control connected radio devices
- schismtracker - tracked music editor based on Impulse Tracker; in console use: schismtracker --video-fb-device=/dev/fb0
- sox - Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation
- StreamPi (command-line version) - scripts to make live streaming and local recording easy with ffmpeg
- STYMulator (ymplayer) - curses based player and converter for the YM chiptune format
- termtosvg - renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations
- timidity - MIDI-to-WAVE converter and player
- v4l2-ctl - an application to control video4linux drivers
- wodim - write data to optical disk media
- yoshimi - a software music synthesiser; howto in command-line
- youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
- zynaddsubfx - a software synthesizer; howto in command-line
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