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GNU/Linux Multimedia Software GUI

• 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
• • My soundfont favorites list
  • SF2 sound fonts at musical-artifacts.com
  • SF2 sound fonts at Orchardoo.com
  • 500 Soundfonts Collection at archive.org
• 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

GNU/Linux Multimedia Software Command-line

• 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
• The Mod Archive
• 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
• YM Archive by Aldn
• 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