Sound Juicer is a free and open source CD ripping application for Linux. It is based on GStreamer and libburnia and GTK for GUI. Using this application you can read or play and write CD (optical discs) and extract the audio from audio CD and convert them into audio files. It supports MusicBrainz service to get audio tracks details. It is released under GPL version 2 or greater.
Spivak is a free and open source Karaoke player for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a standalone Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5. It is released under GNU GPL version 3 license. It supports MIDI/KAR, KaraFun, CDG, LRC (v1 and v2), Encore! Lyric, KOK, Ultrastar (TXT) karaoke lyric formats and AVI, MKV or Flash formats video karaoke formats. It also supports animated images and video background for karaoke songs, LIRC for remotely controlling and background music.
GitHub Desktop is a free open source GitHub.com app. It is Electron based and written in TypeScript and uses React. There is no official Linux installer from GitHub and it only provides Windows and MacOS installers. But you can install GitHub Desktop on various Linux distributions from GitHub Desktop fork shiftkey/desktop. In this this article we will see how to install GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu Linux
Dmidiplayer or Drumstick multiplatform MIDI file player is a free and open source MIDI player for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It supports MIDI Output to hardware MIDI ports and soft synths. In this app you can change MIDI volume level using MIDI CC7 and scale song speed between half and double tempo. It also comes with seperate channel views for Lyrics and Piano Player. This player supports MID/KAR and WRK file formats and -12 and +12 semitones for song transpose. It is released under GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3).
Glide is a free and open source minimalistic Media Player for Linux and MacOS. It is written in rust and GTK and based on GStreamer. It comes with subtitle support, track synchronization, video and audio track selection and visualization support. It supports asf, avi, 3gp/mp4/mov, flv, mpeg-ps/ts, mkv/webm, mxf, ogg and more video container formats. The user interface is very simple and easy to use. It is released under MIT License.
Blue Recorder is a free and open source desktop screen recorder application for Linux. Using Blue Recorder you can record your desktop video and audio. It supports recording on Wayland display server and Xorg. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 3 and built using Rust, GTK+ 3 and ffmpeg. You can record video in mkv, avi, mp4, wmv, gif and nut file formats.
Clapper is a free and open source media player for Linux. It is released under open source GNU General Public License v3.0 and build using GJS and GTK4. It is based on GStreamer and OpenGL. It comes with hardware acceleration and MPRIS support. The UI is comes with Windowed Mode, Floating Mode and Fullscreen Mode. Some other good features are subtitles support and you can also play network streams, YouTube and you can also set audio offset to sync the audio.
Leikr is a free and open source video game making system for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is written in Java using the Mini2DX game framework and released under Apache License 2.0. Using Leikr you can make video games with Groovy programming language. Here you can create up to 128 sprites in the sizes of 8×8, 16×16, 32×32 and even 64×64. It also support external artwork in png, jpg or bmp file formats and wav, mp3 or ogg files to play sfx and music.
Ghidra is a free and open source software reverse engineering suite of tools for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is developed by National Security Agency Research Directorate and released under open source Apache License 2.0. Using Ghidra you can analyze compiled software code and disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting. You can also extent its features via the extension components.
If your recently installed Ubuntu Linux doesn’t play most video and files, then you need to install ubuntu restricted extras package. The ubuntu restricted extras is a software package that contains software like flash plugin, unrar, gstreamer, mp4, codecs for Chromium , libavcodec and more. These are proprietary software packages and Ubuntu doesn’t install by default during the OS installation process. But you can install these softwares in Ubuntu Linux using below commands. Using this you can play most video and Audio files in your system. You can also install this on all Ubuntu based distro.
