List of applications/Multimedia

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Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

Image

Image viewers

Framebuffer

fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv^AUR

fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fim^AUR

jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbview^AUR

Console

timg — Terminal Image and Video Viewer.

https://github.com/hzeller/timg || timg^AUR

Graphical

CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.gitlab.io/ || coreimage^AUR

Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer

Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephoto

Eye of GNOME — Image viewer for GNOME desktop. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog

Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom

feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

https://github.com/derf/feh https://feh.finalrewind.org || feh

GNOME Image Viewer — Simple image viewer for GNOME desktop. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Loupe/ || loupe

GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

https://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop with optional dependencies for additional format support. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview

ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Install the optional dependencies as needed.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

image-roll — Simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools.

https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll || image-roll^AUR

imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/ || imv

Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || koko

KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow^AUR

LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt

meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-git^AUR

Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirage^AUR

mpv-gallery-view — Gallery-view scripts for mpv.

https://github.com/occivink/mpv-gallery-view || mpv-gallery-view-git^AUR

nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs^AUR

nsxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers. Community fork of sxiv.

https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv || nsxiv

PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

https://photoqt.org/ || photoqt^AUR

pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv

qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgv^AUR

Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv^AUR

qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qview^AUR

Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto

shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shufti^AUR

sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior

Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv

Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qt^AUR

vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpv^AUR

Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html^{[dead link 2024-03-03 ⓘ]} || xloadimage

Image organizers

Image processing

Console

CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.

https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg

dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.

https://dechifro.org/dcraw/ || dcraw

G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.

https://www.gmic.eu/ || gmic

GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick

ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick

waifu2x — Image Super-Resolution for Anime-style art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x || waifu2x-git^AUR

Graphical

Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.

https://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen

CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of JPEG files.

https://github.com/jepler/cropgui || cropgui^AUR

ImPPG — performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment

https://greatattractor.github.io/imppg/ || imppg^AUR

PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster.

https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/ || posterazor

Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.

https://apps.gnome.org/Converter/ || switcheroo

Image compression

Console

Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli

jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.

https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim

optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.

https://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng

oxipng — Lossless multithreaded PNG compressor.

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng || oxipng

pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.

https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/ || pngcrush

pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.

https://pngquant.org/ || pngquant

zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google's zopfli library

https://github.com/google/zopfli || zopfli

Graphical

Curtail — Image compressor that supports PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types.

https://apps.gnome.org/Curtail/ || curtail

Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.

https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-git^AUR

Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.

https://trimage.org/ || trimage^AUR

Raster graphics editors

AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.

https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainter^AUR

CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.gitlab.io/ || corepaint^AUR

Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw

Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.

https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing || drawing

Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

https://drawpile.net/ || drawpile^AUR

GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

https://www.gimp.org/ || gimp

Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaint^AUR

GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.

http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2

ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.

https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditor^AUR

KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/kolourpaint/ || kolourpaint

Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.

https://krita.org/ || krita

KXStitch — Cross stitch pattern and chart creation.

https://apps.kde.org/kxstitch/ || kxstitch^AUR

Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.

https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || milton-git^AUR

mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

http://mypaint.org || mypaint

Obfuscate — Censor private information from any image.

https://apps.gnome.org/Obfuscate/ || obfuscate

PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.

https://photoflare.io/ || photoflare

Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

https://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

Pixelitor — Advanced image editor with support for layers, layer masks, text layers, multiple undo, blending modes, cropping, Gaussian blurring, unsharp masking, histograms, etc.

https://pixelitor.sourceforge.io/ || pixelitor^AUR

Satty — Image annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

https://github.com/gabm/Satty || satty

Swappy — Wayland native image annotation tool.

https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy || swappy

XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaint^AUR

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

Specialized photo editors

A Photo Tool (Libre) — Photo editor with easy to use basic image editing tools.

https://www.ahola.me/aphototoollibre.html || aphototoollibre^AUR

darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

https://www.darktable.org/ || darktable

Filmulator — Simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film.

https://filmulator.org/ || filmulator^AUR

FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.

https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulator^AUR

Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.

https://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin

LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.

http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzone^AUR

Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

https://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr

nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw

Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.

https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudio-git^AUR

RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.

https://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

Showfoto — Photo editor with powerful image editing tools.

https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

Photo geotagging

Geotag — Match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map.

https://geotag.sourceforge.net/ || geotag

Geotagging — Photography geotagging tool to synchronize photos with gps track log (GPX).

https://github.com/jmlich/geotagging || geotagging^AUR

GottenGeography — Easy to use photo geotagging application for the GNOME desktop.

https://launchpad.net/gottengeography || gottengeography

GPicSync — Inserts location in your pictures metadata from a GPS tracklog.

https://github.com/FrancoisSchnell/GPicSync || gpicsync^AUR

GPSCorrelate — Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format.

https://github.com/freefoote/gpscorrelate || gpscorrelate

KGeoTag — Photo geotagging application based on KDE Frameworks.

https://kgeotag.kde.org/ || kgeotag^AUR

Vector graphics editors

Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || dia^AUR

diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.diagrams.net/ || drawio-desktop

Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrix^AUR

Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linux^AUR

Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format.

https://inkscape.org/ || inkscape

Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/karbon/ || calligra

LazPaint — Image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal)

https://lazpaint.github.io/ || lazpaint-bin^AUR

LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

Lunacy — Vector graphic design software for UI/UX and web design.

https://icons8.com/lunacy || lunacy-bin^AUR

Mockitt — Proprietary online design, prototyping, and collaboration platform. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mockitt.wondershare.com/ || mockitt^AUR

OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-bin^AUR

Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencil^AUR

sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.

https://sk1project.net/ || sk1^AUR

SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.

https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgvi^AUR

SymbolEditor — Application to create libraries of QPainterPath objects with rendering hints.

https://apps.kde.org/symboleditor/ || symboleditor^AUR

yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed || yed^AUR

Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.

https://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfig^AUR

Font editors

Birdfont — Font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.

https://birdfont.org/ || birdfont

FontForge — Outline font editor.

https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge

TruFont — Font-editing application.

https://trufont.github.io/ || trufont^AUR

2D animation

enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.

https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-git^AUR

Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export

https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimate^AUR

OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ || opentoonz

Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

https://www.pencil2d.org/ || pencil2d

qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

https://qstopmotion.org/ || qstopmotion

Scribl — Application to create simple video lectures that combine audio with hand-drawn animation.

https://www.scribl.ink/ || scribl^AUR

Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

http://linuxstopmotion.org/ || stopmotion^AUR

Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

https://www.synfig.org/ || synfigstudio

TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.

https://www.maefloresta.com/ || tupitube

Aseprite — Open-source software for creating pixel art and animations. Builds can either be purchased from the developers or compiled from source.

https://www.aseprite.org/ || From source: aseprite^AUR, From binary: aseprite-bin^AUR

Pixelorama — Open-source software for creating pixel art and animations.

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixelorama^AUR

Tahoma2D — Free and powerful software for 2D and stop motion animators. Based on OpenToonz

https://tahoma2d.org/ || tahoma2d^AUR

The drawing application Krita, the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode), and the python library Manim have 2D animation features too.

3D computer graphics

Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoi^AUR

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Blockbench — A low-poly 3D model editor

https://www.blockbench.net/ || blockbench^AUR

CloudCompare — 3D point cloud and mesh processing software.

https://cloudcompare.org/ || cloudcompare^AUR

Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.

https://dust3d.org/ || dust3d^AUR

F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …

https://f3d.app || f3d

Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.

https://goxel.xyz/ || goxel

MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehuman^AUR

MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.

https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlab^AUR

Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans

http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d

POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

https://www.povray.org/ || povray

VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.

https://github.com/simlu/voxelshop || voxelshop^AUR

Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

https://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d^AUR

Color pickers and palettes

Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.

https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-git^AUR

ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.

https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrab^AUR

Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || palette

colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.

https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpicker^AUR

Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.

https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-picker^AUR

Contrast — Checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the WCAG requirements.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/contrast || contrast

Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.

https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulr^AUR

Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker

delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.

https://github.com/eepp/delicolour || delicolour^AUR

Eyedropper — Color picker and formatter.

https://apps.gnome.org/Eyedropper/ || eyedropper

Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.

https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3

GPick — Advanced color picker tool.

https://www.gpick.org/ || gpick

hyprpicker — A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.

https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpicker || hyprpicker

KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser

Kontrast — Tool to check contrast for colors that allows verifying that your colors are correctly accessible. Part of kde-accessibility.

https://apps.kde.org/kontrast/ || kontrast

MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop

Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/pick || pick-colour-picker^AUR

PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.

https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopalette^AUR

sxcs — Minimal X11 color picker and magnifier

https://codeberg.org/NRK/sxcs || sxcs^AUR

xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.

https://soft.github.io/xcolor/ || xcolor

Audio

Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

Audio players

Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.

Server

Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.

https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd

Funkwhale — self-hosted, modern, free and open-source music server, heavily inspired by Grooveshark. Instances can be federated.

https://funkwhale.audio/ || funkwhale-venv^AUR

Navidrome — Open source music server and streamer with a built in Web UI. Compatible with a wide range of third-party Android and iOS apps.

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/ || navidrome

Console

cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus

cplay-ng — Updated fork of cplay.

https://github.com/xi/cplay-ng || cplay-ng-git^AUR

davis — A CLI client for mpd, written in Rust.

https://github.com/SimonPersson/davis || davis^AUR

MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

https://moc.daper.net/ || moc-pulse^AUR

mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123

musikcube — A cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++.

https://github.com/clangen/musikcube || musikcube^AUR

vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.

http://vitunes.org/ || vitunes^AUR

whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.

https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-git^AUR

XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

https://github.com/xmms2/wiki/wiki || xmms2

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Amberol — Small and simple sound and music player that is well integrated with GNOME.

https://apps.gnome.org/Amberol/ || amberol

Blanket — Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds.

https://apps.gnome.org/Blanket/ || blanket

Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byte^AUR

Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5. See also Strawberry (below).

https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine^AUR

Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.

https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooks^AUR

Decibels — Audio player for GNOME.

https://apps.gnome.org/Decibels/ || decibels

Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.

https://www.exaile.org/ || exaile^AUR

GNOME Music — Music player for GNOME. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Music/ || gnome-music

Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework (no longer maintained as of September 2023).

https://www.guayadeque.org/^{[dead link 2024-10-12 ⓘ]} || guayadeque^AUR

Lollypop — A GNOME music player.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop

Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.

https://anufrij.org/melody/ || playmymusic^AUR

Nulloy — Music player with a waveform progress bar.

https://nulloy.com/ || nulloy^AUR

Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.

https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music

Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.

https://github.com/gkarsay/parlatype/ || parlatype^AUR

Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.

https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha

Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/ || quodlibet

Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox

Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.

https://sayonara-player.com/ || sayonara-player^AUR

Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors. Uses Qt6.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ || strawberry

Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.

https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-box^AUR

Other

Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarok^AUR

Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

https://aqualung.jeremyevans.net/ || aqualung^AUR

Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious

DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeef^AUR

Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music

Drumstick MIDI File Player — MIDI file player based on Drumstick.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/ || dmidiplayer^AUR

Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ || elisa

fooyin — A customisable Qt-based music player.

https://github.com/ludouzi/fooyin || fooyin^AUR

gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

https://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowser^AUR

Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm

JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://juk.kde.org/ || juk

LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

https://www.lxde.org/ || lxmusic

museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://museeks.io/ || museeks-bin^AUR

Musique — Just another music player, only better.

https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musique^AUR

Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

Soundux — Soundboard that features a simple user interface.

https://soundux.rocks/ || soundux^AUR

Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand. Part of maui.

https://mauikit.org/apps/vvave/ || vvave

Internet radio listeners

Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.

https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibes^AUR

Radio — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.

https://www.gtkradio.org/ || GTK: gtk-radio^AUR, GNOME: gnome-radio^AUR

Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.

https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ng^AUR

Shortwave — GTK application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.

https://apps.gnome.org/Shortwave/ || shortwave

Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.

https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tuner^AUR

Music streaming clients

AudioTube — YouTube Music client app for phones and desktop computers. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/audiotube/ || audiotube

Cider — An open source and community oriented Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://cider.sh/ || cider^AUR

Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/ || gpmdp^AUR

Headset — Desktop application that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://headsetapp.co/ || headset^AUR

ncspot — Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot || ncspot-bin^AUR

Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.

https://nuclear.js.org/ || nuclear-player-bin^AUR

pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.

https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar

Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.

https://pithos.github.io/ || pithos^AUR

Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

https://www.spotify.com/ || spotify^AUR

spotify-qt — Lightweight Spotify client using Qt.

https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt || spotify-qt^AUR

spotify-tui — Spotify for the terminal written in Rust.

https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui || spotify-tui^AUR

TIDAL Hi-Fi (Max quality) — The web version of TIDAL Player running in electron with Hi-Fi (High & Max) support thanks to widevine

https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi || tidal-hifi-bin^AUR

YouTube Music — Electron-based wrapper around YouTube Music with built in addons.

https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music || youtube-music-bin^AUR

Audio tag editors

Console

Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.

https://beets.io/ || beets

Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.

https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/demlo || demlo^AUR

id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3^AUR

id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.

https://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2

MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.

https://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode

Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.

https://github.com/jangler/taffy || taffy^AUR

Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.

https://github.com/kAworu/tagutil || tagutil^AUR

Graphical

Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtool^AUR

Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.

https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquillo^AUR

Ear Tag — Simple audio file tag editor.

https://apps.gnome.org/EarTag/ || eartag

EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG || easytag

Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.

https://github.com/lachhebo/gabtag || gabtag^AUR

Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

https://kid3.kde.org/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt

MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

NickvisionTagger — GTK Music file tag editor. Can load tags from MusicBrainz database. Works with mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames.

https://github.com/nlogozzo/NickvisionTagger || tagger^AUR

Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard

NTag — Graphical tag editor focused on everyday life use cases.

https://github.com/nrittsti/ntag || ntag^AUR

Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletag^AUR

Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.

https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor || tageditor^AUR

Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.

https://floodlight.gitlab.io/ || floodlight-presenter^AUR

Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyrics^AUR

OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.

https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics

Lyrics downloaders

clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.

https://github.com/trizen/clyrics || clyrics^AUR

glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.

https://github.com/sahib/glyr || glyr

Lyrics editors

Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.

https://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ || karlyriceditor^AUR

LyricsX — Lyrics editor.

https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsx^AUR

Audio converters

Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound

FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.

https://github.com/Bleuzen/FFaudioConverter || ffaudioconverter^AUR

Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

https://flacon.github.io/ || flacon^AUR

fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

https://freac.org/ || freac^AUR

Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

https://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac

SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.

https://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter

soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.

https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter^AUR

SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.

https://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox

Audio editors

Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity

GNOME Sound Recorder — Provides a straight-forward way to record and play audio. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder

GWC — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.

https://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwc^AUR

KRecorder — A convergent audio recording application for Plasma. Part of kde-utilities.

https://apps.kde.org/krecorder/ || krecorder

Kwave — Sound editor for KDE. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/kwave/ || kwave

mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.

https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit/ || mhwaveedit^AUR

Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.

https://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt^AUR, GUI: mp3splt-gtk^AUR

ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || ocenaudio-bin^AUR

Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.

https://29a.ch/playitslowly || playitslowly

Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.

https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ || polyphone

Snd — Advanced sound editor modeled loosely after Emacs.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/ || snd

Swami — A SoundFont editor

http://www.swamiproject.org || swami^AUR

Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep^AUR

WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080722195312/http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ || wavesurfer^AUR

Digital audio workstations

Audio analyzers

audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.

https://github.com/vsergeev/audioprism || audioprism^AUR

BRP-PACU — Dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu/ || brp-pacu^AUR

Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer

http://www.baudline.com/index.html || baudline-bin^AUR

FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

https://gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit/ || fmit^AUR

Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.

https://friture.org/ || friture^AUR

Mousai — Simple application for identifying songs using the API of audd.io.

https://apps.gnome.org/Mousai/ || mousai

rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/rtspeccy/ || rtspeccy-git^AUR

SongRec — Unofficial Shazam client to recognize audio from an arbitrary audio file or from the microphone, written in Rust.

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec || songrec

Sonic Visualiser — Viewing, analyzing, and annotating the contents of music audio files.

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser

Spek — A barebones interface for ffmpeg's spectogram png output, helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

http://spek.cc/ || spek^AUR

Scorewriters

Canorus — Music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus/ || canorus^AUR

Impro-Visor — Music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ || impro-visor^AUR

LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.

https://lilypond.org/ || lilypond

MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.

https://musescore.org/ || musescore

TuxGuitar — Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ || tuxguitar^AUR

Metronome

GMetronome — A GTK metronome and tempo measurement tool.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/dqpb/gmetronome || gmetronome^AUR

Metronome — Beats the rhythm for you to keep the tempo.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/metronome || metronome

Audio synthesis environments

Blue — Music composition environment for Csound, written in Java.

https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ || csound-blue^AUR

Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.

https://cabbageaudio.com/ || cabbage-bin^AUR

Cardinal — Virtual modular synthesizer plugin based on the VCV Rack, includes lots of virtualized Eurorack modules.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal || cardinal

ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ || chuck

Csound — Sound and music computing system.

https://csound.com/ || csound

CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.

https://csoundqt.github.io/ || csoundqt

FoxDot — Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider.

https://foxdot.org/ || foxdot^AUR

Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.

http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html || pd

Sonic Pi — Code-based music creation and performance tool.

https://sonic-pi.net/ || sonic-pi^AUR

SuperCollider — Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.

https://supercollider.github.io/ || supercollider

VCV Rack — Virtual Eurorack DAW. Use a plugin systems to add more Eurorack emulated modules.

https://vcvrack.com/ || vcvrack^AUR

Sound generators

This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.

ADLMIDI — OPL3/OPN2 synthesizer using ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/adljack || adljack

ADLplug — FM Yamaha OPL3 synthesizer for ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || adlplug

Agordejo — Music and audio production session manager based on NSM.

https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo/ || agordejo

ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.

https://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || ams

amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.

https://amsynth.github.io/ || amsynth

DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.

https://dinisnoise.org/ || din

Drumlabooh — LV2/VSTi drum machine with Hydrogen, SFZ, Drumlabooh kits support.

https://psemiletov.github.io/drumlabooh/ || drumlabooh^AUR

Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.

https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/ || drumstick

Element — A modular LV2/VST3 audio plugin host.

https://kushview.net/element/ || element

FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

https://www.fluidsynth.org/ || fluidsynth

Geonkick — Synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.

https://gitlab.com/iurie-sw/geonkick || geonkick

Gigedit — Graphical instrument editor for sample based virtual instruments, based on the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file format.

http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Gigedit/ || gigedit

GrandOrgue — Virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/ || grandorgue-git^AUR

GSequencer — Provides various tools to play, create, edit and mix your own music. It features a step sequencer, piano roll, automation and wave-form editor.

https://nongnu.org/gsequencer/ || gsequencer^AUR

Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.

https://tytel.org/helm/ || helm-synth^AUR

Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.

https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen || hydrogen

JSampler — Java GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

https://jsampler.sourceforge.net/ || jsampler

OPNplug — FM Yamaha OPN2 synthesizer for OPNMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || opnplug

Patroneo — Easy to use pattern based midi sequencer.

https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ || patroneo

PySynth — Suite of simple music synthesizers and helper scripts written in Python 3.

https://mdoege.github.io/PySynth/ || python-pysynth-git^AUR

QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.

https://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiarp

QmidiCtl — MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io/ || qmidictl

QmidiNet — MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io/ || qmidinet

QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.

https://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiroute

Qsampler — Qt GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/ || qsampler

Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.

https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ || qsynth

Qwertone — Simple music synthesizer (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.

https://gitlab.com/azymohliad/qwertone || qwertone-git^AUR

QXGEdit — Qt GUI for editing MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).

https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io/ || qxgedit

setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.

https://setbfree.org/ || setbfree

SpectMorph — Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).

https://spectmorph.org/ || spectmorph

Surge XT — Cross platform, subtractive hybrid synthesizer. Installs the standalone application (surge-xt-standalone), plugins (surge-xt-clap, surge-xt-vst3), and common files (surge-xt-common).

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ || surge-xt

TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

https://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++

Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.

https://www.rncbc.org/ || synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, padthv1

VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.

https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ || vmpk

Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.

https://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi

ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.

https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ || zynaddsubfx

Music trackers

Buzztrax — Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.

https://www.buzztrax.org/ || buzztrax^AUR

FamiStudio — Very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom.

https://famistudio.org/ || famistudio^AUR

FastTracker II — A clone of the same tracker name using SDL2 in C.

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php || ft2-clone

Furnace — A chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules. Emulates a variety of sound chips.

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace || furnace

klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.

https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/ || klystrack-git^AUR

MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.

https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/ || milkytracker

OpenMPT — Tracker software to create and play back some great music on your computer.

https://openmpt.org/ || openmpt^AUR

ProTracker 2 — A clone of the original tracker from the amiga. Written using SDL2 in C.

https://16-bits.org/pt2.php || pt2-clone

Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.

https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ || radium^AUR

Schism Tracker — Create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.

https://schismtracker.org/ || schismtracker

SunVox — Small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ || sunvox^AUR

DJ

Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

https://giadamusic.com/ || giada^AUR

IDJC — Powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.

https://idjc.sourceforge.net/ || idjc^AUR

Linux Show Player — Powerful and feature-rich software to arrange cue lists. Designed for theater plays and live music shows.

https://www.linux-show-player.org/ || linux-show-player^AUR

Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.

http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ || luppp

Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

https://mixxx.org/ || mixxx

Seq24 — Minimal loop based MIDI sequencer for a live performance with a very simple interface for editing and playing MIDI 'loops'.

http://filter24.org/seq24/ || seq24-bzr^AUR

xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.

https://xwax.org/ || xwax

Audio effects

Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. (calfjackhost)

https://calf-studio-gear.org/ || calf

Carla — Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.

https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla || carla

guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.

https://guitarix.org/ || guitarix

EasyEffects — Apply effects to audio applications and input sources over PipeWire (or PulseAudio with legacy package).

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects || easyeffects, pulseeffects-legacy-git^AUR

Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.

https://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ || rakarrack^AUR

ToneLib GFX — the perfect custom tone with a complete guitar studio in your computer

https://tonelib.net/gfx-overview.html || tonelib-gfx-bin^AUR

Audio visualizers

Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.

https://github.com/Kharacternyk/barva/ || barva-git^AUR

C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.

https://github.com/karlstav/cava/ || cava^AUR

Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.

https://github.com/worron/cavalcade/ || cavalcade-git^AUR

cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.

https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer || cli-visualizer^AUR

GLava — OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. Its primary use case is for desktop windows or backgrounds.

https://github.com/wacossusca34/glava || glava

GLMViz — Fully configurable OpenGL music visualizer.

https://github.com/hannesha/GLMViz || glmviz-git^AUR

Le Biniou — User-friendly, powerful music visualization / VJing tool.

https://biniou.lenain.info/ || lebiniou^AUR

projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm || projectm-pulseaudio

VSXu — OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

https://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxu^AUR

Remote audio

Audio Sharing — Share current computer audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices.

https://apps.gnome.org/AudioSharing/ || audio-sharing

GUPnP Tools — Provides client and server side tools which enable one to easily test and debug one's UPnP devices and control points.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GUPnP || gupnp-tools

jammr — Play jam sessions with musicians around the world over the internet.

https://jammr.net/ || jammr^AUR

Jamulus — Enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.

https://jamulus.io/ || jamulus^AUR

netaudio — List, configure, and control Audinate Dante network audio devices.

https://github.com/chris-ritsen/network-audio-controller || python-netaudio^AUR

Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.

https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-app^AUR

SonoBus — Application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

https://sonobus.net/ || sonobus^AUR

Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplay^AUR

Volume control

alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.

https://alsa-project.org/ || alsa-utils

AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.

https://github.com/Vitozz/cppAlsaVolume || cpp-alsa-volume^AUR

Emixer — Utility to control volume levels. Part of Enlightenment.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enlightenment || enlightenment

Gnome Alsamixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.

https://launchpad.net/gnome-alsamixer || gnome-alsamixer^AUR

GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.

https://github.com/Junker/gvolwheel || gvolwheel^AUR

KMix — KDE volume control program. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/kmix/ || kmix

MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-media || mate-media

PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.

https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki || pnmixer^AUR

QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).

https://gitlab.com/sebholt/qastools || qastools

Retrovol — Retro-looking volume setting tray applet.

https://github.com/pizzasgood/retrovol || retrovol^AUR

Volctl — Per-application system tray applet volume control and OSD for PulseAudio.

https://buzz.github.io/volctl/ || volctl^AUR

Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.

https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti || volnoti^AUR

Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.

https://github.com/gen2brain/volti || volti^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

Volume Icon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.

https://nullwise.com/pages/volumeicon/volumeicon.html || volumeicon

Xfce ALSA Panel Plugin — Simple ALSA volume control plugin for Xfce4 panel.

https://github.com/equeim/xfce4-alsa-plugin || xfce4-alsa-plugin^AUR

CD ripping

See Optical disc drive#Audio CD.

Video

Video players

Console

FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ || gst-plugins-base-libs

MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer

mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc, and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Cinema — Video player and manager for watching local video files.

https://anufrij.org/cinema/ || playmyvideos^AUR

Clapper — Media player built for the GNOME desktop environment using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.

https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/ || clapper

Glide — Simple and minimalistic media player relying on GStreamer for the multimedia support and GTK for the user interface.

https://github.com/philn/glide || glide

GNOME Videos — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Totem/ || totem

Identity — Program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

https://apps.gnome.org/Identity/ || identity

Movie Monad — Free and simple to use video player made with Haskell using GStreamer and GTK. Precompiled and no Haskell dependency in run-time.

https://lettier.github.io/movie-monad/ || movie-monad^AUR

Pantheon Videos — Video player and library designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.

https://github.com/elementary/videos || pantheon-videos

Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start || parole

Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles. Uses GStreamer

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-rage || rage

Showtime — Video player for GNOME.

https://apps.gnome.org/Showtime/ || showtime

Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy || snappy-player^AUR

Spivak — Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5.

https://github.com/gyunaev/spivak || spivak^AUR

mpv-based

Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).

https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer || baka-mplayer

Bomi — bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux.

https://bomi-player.github.io/ || bomi-git^AUR

Celluloid — Simple GTK frontend for mpv.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/ || celluloid

Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-movie/ || deepin-movie

Haruna Video Player — Qt/QML video player built on top of mpv.

https://haruna.kde.org/ || haruna

Kawaii-Player — Audio/video manager and multimedia player (based on mpv) with PC-to-PC casting feature, along with functionalities of portable media server and torrent streaming server.

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/kawaii-player || kawaii-player^AUR

Media Player Classic Qute Theater — Clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt and based on mpv.

https://mpc-qt.github.io/ || mpc-qt^AUR

Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using mpv and Qt.

https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube || minitube

MoonPlayer — Video player for playing and downloading online videos from YouTube, Youku etc.

https://github.com/coslyk/moonplayer || moonplayer^AUR

mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

mpvz — Qt5/QML based GUI for libmpv. Based on the Tethys theme for Bomi.

https://github.com/Zren/mpvz || mpvz-git^AUR

ImPlay — Cross-Platform Desktop Media Player, built on top of mpv and ImGui.

https://github.com/tsl0922/ImPlay || implay^AUR

PlasmaTube — YouTube video player for KDE based on mpv and yt-dlp. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/plasmatube/ || plasmatube

SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://www.smplayer.info/ || smplayer

xt7-player-mpv — Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist management, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.

https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpv^AUR

Other

Clip — Video player and collection manager utilizing FFmpeg as the backend. Part of maui.

https://mauikit.org/apps/clip/ || maui-clip

Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE based on Phonon. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/ || dragon

Electronplayer — An application using the Electron framework. It is used for viewing Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Floatplane, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and more. Most notably to isolate the cookies from these websites from your main web browser.

https://github.com/oscartbeaumont/ElectronPlayer/ || electronplayer^AUR

FreeTube — Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.

https://freetubeapp.io/ || freetube^AUR

Gnome MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.

https://github.com/kdekorte/gnome-mplayer || gnome-mplayer

Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S).

https://apps.kde.org/kaffeine/ || kaffeine

KMPlayer — Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://apps.kde.org/kmplayer/ || kmplayer^AUR

Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

https://kodi.tv/ || kodi

QMPlay2 — Qt based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by FFmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a YouTube browser.

https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2 || qmplay2^AUR

QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer.

https://www.qtav.org/ || qtav^AUR

Stremio — Extensible media center.

https://www.stremio.com/ || stremio^AUR

tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.

https://linuxtv.org/ || tvtime

VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

xine — Free multimedia player.

https://www.xine-project.org/ || xine-ui

Xjadeo — Video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport).

https://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/ || xjadeo

YUView — Qt-based YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

https://github.com/IENT/YUView || yuview^AUR

Video converters

Console

Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

https://www.avidemux.org/ || avidemux-cli

FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mencoder

Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.

http://www.transcoding.org/ || transcode^AUR

Graphical

Ciano — Simple multimedia file converter using FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

https://robertsanseries.github.io/ciano/ || ciano

FF Multi Converter — Simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, by utilizing other command-line tools.

https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/^{[dead link 2024-10-12 ⓘ]} || ffmulticonverter^AUR

HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

QWinFF — Qt5 GUI for FFmpeg that can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats.

https://qwinff.github.io/ || qwinff^AUR

Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

WinFF — Graphical video and audio batch converter using FFmpeg.

https://github.com/WinFF/winff || winff-gtk3^AUR, winff-qt6^AUR

Video editors

Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-qt

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Cinelerra (Community Version) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cv-git^AUR

Cinelerra GG Infinity — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cinelerra-gg-git^AUR

DaVinci Resolve — Proprietary A/V post-production software suite.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ || davinci-resolve^AUR

Flowblade — Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, designed to provide a fast, robust editing experience.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ || flowblade

Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive

Lightworks — Professional proprietary non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.

https://www.lwks.com/ || lightworks^AUR

LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

http://lives-video.com/ || lives^AUR

LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/ || losslesscut-bin^AUR

Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

https://natrongithub.github.io/ || natron^AUR

Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ || olive^AUR

OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

https://www.openshot.org/ || openshot

Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

https://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi

Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

https://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut

V2Mixer — free cross-platform movie editor,mixer

http://v2mixer.livev2.com/ || v2mixer-bin^AUR

VapourSynth Editor — Editor for VapourSynth scripts.

https://bitbucket.org/mystery_keeper/vapoursynth-editor || vapoursynth-editor^AUR

VidCutter — Fast lossless media cutter + joiner w/ frame-accurate SmartCut options powered by mpv, FFmpeg via a sleek Qt5 GUI.

https://vidcutter.ozmartians.com/ || vidcutter

Video Trimmer — Cut out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

https://apps.gnome.org/VideoTrimmer/ || video-trimmer

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Penguin Subtitle Player — Standalone subtitle player that provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything.

https://github.com/carsonip/Penguin-Subtitle-Player || penguin-subtitle-player

SubtitlesPrinter — Print subtitles above a X-screen, independently of the video player.

https://github.com/OlivierMarty/SubtitlesPrinter || subtitles-printer-git^AUR

Subtitle downloaders

QNapi — Qt client for downloading movie subtitles from NapiProjekt, OpenSubtitles, Napisy24.

https://qnapi.github.io/ || qnapi

subliminal — Python library and command-line tool to search and download subtitles from different providers (opensubtitles.com, addic7ed.com, ...).

https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal || subliminal^AUR

subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.

https://github.com/akexakex/subdl || subdl

Subtitle editors

Aegisub — Subtitle editor.

https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub

Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.

https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol

Gnome Subtitles — Video subtitle editor for GNOME.

http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles

Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.

https://www.jubler.org/ || jubler^AUR

Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.

https://subtitlecomposer.kde.org/ || subtitlecomposer^AUR

Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit || subtitleedit^AUR

Subtitle Editor — GTK 3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.

https://kitone.github.io/subtitleeditor/ || subtitleeditor^AUR

Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

Miracast

Miracast is a standard for wireless connections from sending devices to display receivers mainly using Wi-Fi Direct. Use iw dev to check your hardware support. Use iw reg get to make sure the regulatory domain is not set to "Global", as that might block some functionality.

GNOME Network Displays — GTK application to cast your desktop to a remote display. Not specific to the GNOME environment, depends on PipeWire.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays || gnome-network-displays^AUR

MiracleCast — Command line tools to connect external monitors to your system via Wi-Fi Display specification also known as Miracast.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast || miraclecast-git^AUR

Webcam

Booth — A convergent camera app.

https://invent.kde.org/maui/maui-booth || maui-booth-git^AUR

cameractrls — Command line and graphical application for configuring v4l2 devices.

https://github.com/soyersoyer/cameractrls || cameractrls

Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese || cheese

Deepin Camera — Tool to view camera, take photo and video.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-camera || deepin-camera

fswebcam — Small and simple command line webcam software that generates images for a webcam.

https://www.sanslogic.co.uk/fswebcam/ || fswebcam^AUR

GNOME Camera — Take pictures and videos. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Snapshot/ || snapshot

Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.

https://guvcview.sourceforge.net/ || GTK: guvcview, Qt: guvcview-qt

Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community. Part of kde-multimedia.

https://apps.kde.org/kamoso/ || kamoso

MJPG-streamer — Command line application which can be used to stream M-JPEG over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewers.

https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer || mjpg-streamer-git^AUR

Motion — Highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

https://motion-project.github.io/ || motion

Pantheon Camera — Camera application designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/camera || pantheon-camera

QtCAM — Webcam software with more than 10 image control settings, extension settings and color space switching.

https://www.e-consystems.com/opensource-linux-webcam-software-application.asp || qtcam-git^AUR

v4l2loopback — Kernel module that allows to create virtual video (v4l2) devices. This can be used to create virtual webcams with video passed by programs like FFmpeg.

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback || v4l2loopback-dkms

v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.

https://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucp^AUR

v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.

https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils

Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.

https://webcamoid.github.io/ || webcamoid^AUR

DVD authoring

Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.

https://bombono.com/ || bombono-dvd^AUR

Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.

https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html || devede

DVDStyler — DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/ || dvdstyler

DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

Video thumbnails

vcsi — Create video contact sheets. A video contact sheet is an image composed of video capture thumbnails arranged on a grid.

https://github.com/amietn/vcsi || vcsi^AUR

Video Contact Sheet — Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used.

https://p.outlyer.net/vcs || video-contact-sheet^AUR

Personal video recorders

MythTV — A homebrew PVR project.

https://www.mythtv.org/ || mythtv-git^AUR

Collection managers

GCstar — Application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar || gcstar^AUR

Griffith — Movie collection manager application.

https://gitlab.com/Strit/griffith || griffith

MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.

https://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/ || mediaelch

Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/ || tellico

tinyMediaManager — Media management tool to provide metadata for Kodi.

https://www.tinymediamanager.org/ || tiny-media-manager^AUR

Media servers

Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)

https://airsonic.github.io/ || airsonic^AUR

DMS — A UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server that includes basic video transcoding (thus with minimum dependencies).

https://github.com/anacrolix/dms || dms^AUR

Emby — Proprietary media server, which automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

https://emby.media/ || emby-server

Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)

https://gerbera.io/ || gerbera

Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.

https://icecast.org/ || icecast^AUR

Jellyfin — Media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.

https://jellyfin.org/ || Server: jellyfin-server, desktop client: jellyfin-media-player^AUR, cast client: jellyfin-mpv-shim

OwnTone — DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/ || owntone-server^AUR

Plex — Proprietary media server, which organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

https://www.plex.tv/ || plex-media-server^AUR

ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ || minidlna

Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel || rygel

Serviio — Proprietary media server, which allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

https://serviio.org/ || serviio^AUR

Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.

https://www.subsonic.org/ || subsonic^AUR

Tvheadend — TV streaming server and recorder supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

https://tvheadend.org/ || tvheadend^AUR

Universal Media Server — UPnP media server, which is capable of sharing video, audio and images between most modern devices. (Fork of PS3 Media Server.)

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/ || ums^AUR

Metadata

CoreInfo — Simple media metadata viewer built on mediainfo library. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.gitlab.io/ || coreinfo^AUR

DV Analyzer — Technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors.

https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer || CLI: dvanalyzer^AUR, GUI: dvanalyzer-gui^AUR

ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ || perl-image-exiftool

ExifCleaner — Desktop app to clean metadata from images, videos, PDFs, and other files.

https://exifcleaner.com || exifcleaner-bin^AUR

Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.

https://exiv2.org/ || exiv2

ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html || ffmpeg

jExifToolGUI — Java/Swing graphical frontend for ExifTool, which reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files.

https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/ || jexiftoolgui^AUR

jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.

https://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ || jhead

mat2 — Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 || mat2

MediaConch — Implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer.

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch || CLI: mediaconch^AUR, GUI: mediaconch-gui^AUR

MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo || CLI: mediainfo, GUI: mediainfo-gui

Metadata Cleaner — Python GTK application to view and clean metadata in files, using mat2.

https://apps.gnome.org/MetadataCleaner/ || metadata-cleaner

sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.

http://mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ || libsndfile

Mobile device managers

Android 2 Linux Notifications — Display your Android phone notifications on your desktop using a LAN connection.

https://www.patri9ck.dev/a2ln/ || a2ln^AUR

Android File Transfer — Interactive Media Transfer Protocol client with Qt5 GUI.

https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/ || android-file-transfer

gMTP — Simple MP3 and media player client for Media Transfer Protocol.

https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp

gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

https://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokii^AUR

gtkpod — GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/ || gtkpod^AUR

KDE Connect — Provides integration between devices. Part of kde-network.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ || kdeconnect

Modem Manager GUI — Control EDGE/3G/4G broadband modem specific functions.

https://linuxonly.ru/page/modem-manager-gui || modem-manager-gui

Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager^AUR

Sachesi — Firmware, extractor, searcher and installer for Blackberry 10.

https://github.com/xsacha/Sachesi || sachesi-bin^AUR

Ttwatch — Linux TomTom GPS Watch Utilities.

https://github.com/ryanbinns/ttwatch || ttwatch-git^AUR

Wammu — Manage data in your cell phone such as contacts, calendar or messages.

https://wammu.eu/ || wammu^AUR

TV guide

Telly Skout — Convergent TV guide based on Kirigami.

https://apps.kde.org/telly-skout/ || telly-skout

TV-Browser — Java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins.

https://tvbrowser.org/ || tvbrowser^AUR

XMLTV — Set of utilities to download TV listings and format them in XML.

https://xmltv.org/ || xmltv^AUR

Optical disc burning

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.

Codecs

Image

Image viewers

Framebuffer

Console

Graphical

Image organizers

Image processing

Console

Graphical

Image compression

Console

Graphical

Raster graphics editors

Specialized photo editors

Photo geotagging

Vector graphics editors

Font editors

2D animation

3D computer graphics

Color pickers and palettes

Screenshot

Digital camera managers

Text art

Audio

Audio systems

Audio players

Server

Console

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Other

Internet radio listeners

Music streaming clients

Audio tag editors

Console

Graphical

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Lyrics downloaders

Lyrics editors

Audio converters

Audio editors

Digital audio workstations

Audio analyzers

Scorewriters

Metronome

Audio synthesis environments

Sound generators

Music trackers

DJ

Audio effects

Audio visualizers

Remote audio

Volume control

CD ripping

Video

Video players

Console

Graphical

GStreamer-based

mpv-based

Other

Video converters

Console

Graphical

Video editors

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Subtitle downloaders

Subtitle editors

Screencast

Miracast

Webcam

DVD authoring

DVD ripping

Video thumbnails

Personal video recorders

Collection managers

Media servers