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MusicBrainz Picard is an open-source and free tag editor for audio files. It is written in Python programming language licensed under GNU General Public License version 2+. It supports multiple popular formats such as mp3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA and more. Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, allowing files to be identified by the actual music, even if they have no metadata.
Picard can lookup entire music CDs with a click. Picard also supports plugins if you need a particular feature, you can choose from a selection of available plugins or write your own to extend functionality. Picard is not built to be a mass single-track tag fixer. Picard believes in quality over quantity and provides a plethora of customization to tweak music collections to your needs.


Supported format list:
  • MPEG-1 Audio (.mp3, .mp2, .m2a)
  • MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p, .m4v, .mp4)
  • Windows Media Audio (.wma, .wmv, .asf)
  • Microsoft WAVE (.wav)
  • The True Audio (.tta)
  • FLAC (.flac)
  • Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff, .aif, .aifc)
  • Musepack (.mpc, .mp+)
  • WavPack (.wv)
  • OptimFROG (.ofr, .ofs)
  • Monkey's Audio (.ape)
  • Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor (.tak)
  • Speex (.spx)
  • Ogg FLAC (.oggflac)
  • Ogg Theora (.ogg)
  • Ogg Opus (.opus)
  • Ogg Audio (.oga)
  • Ogg Video (.ogv)

Available for Ubuntu 19.10 Eaon/19.04 Disco/18.04 Bionic/Linux Mint 19/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Picard in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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If you have CDs laying around and you have some special tracks in them then you can extract them and listen again on your current devices. All you need is a CD drive and little bit time. Your physical audio collection can become digital and modern again. There are some online services also available for this kind of task but it is good idea to do it by offline application and it is pretty easy to do.
Flacon is an application designed to extract audio files individually or entire album from Audio CD. You can rip audio CDs in order to save your favorite album on your system or transfer in your mobile/handheld device. To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Besides, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately.


Features:
  • Supported input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
  • Supported out formats: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.
  • Replay Gain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes).
  • Multi-threaded conversion process.
  • Automatic character set detection for CUE files.
  • Generation of the pertrack CUE file in the output dir.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/and other Debian and Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Flacon Audio Ripper in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To Install Flacon Audio Ripper in Debian/its derivatives open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

For other distributions checkout this page.
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There are plenty of music players available and you may have your favorite one installed but there is no harm to try something different. Lollypop is a modern and fast audio player, inspired from material design, it is free and works with almost every Linux distribution and FreeBSD.
It does great job of organizing and browsing albums and artists. You can view all the albums you have in one long list. Clicking on one of them will bring a popup at the bottom of the screen where you will see a list of all the songs on that album. Queue option works as temporary playlist. You can add songs to a queue, and then re-order or remove songs as you please.
It lets you integrate online radios, most recent version features a nice interface for adding, browsing, and playing online radio stations. It supports common audio formats: mp3, mp4, ogg and flac.

lollypop player

lollypop audio player

Features:
  • Artist bio, lyrics: Get artists and tracks information from the web.
  • Intuitive browsing: Walk through your collection by genres/artists and through albums artwork.
  • Formats supported: mp3, mp4, ogg, and flac
  • Cover art downloader: Automatic artwork downloader from Last.fm, Itunes and Spotify.
  • MTP devices: Sync your music with Android phones and any mtp devices…
  • Fullscreen view: Visual access from your couch
  • Party mode: Let Lollypop choose music for you.
  • Queue: The queue is a source designed to temporarily store the next tracks you want to play.
  • Replay gain: Native replay gain support.
  • Search: Search in your collection by artist, album and title.
  • Web: Play music from the Web
  • Genre/Cover browsing
  • Genre/Artist/Cover browsing
  • Fullscreen view
  • Auto install codecs
  • HiDPI support

How to install?

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18/and other Ubuntu based distributions
To install Lollypop Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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MPV video player is forked from mplayer2 and MPlayer, MPV supports wide variety of audio and video file formats. It offers some of the features with the former project while introducing many more. It is an command-line video player as well as offers GUI, it is lightweight and cross-platform available for Linux, Mac and Windows. From command line MPlayer's options parser was improved to behave more like other CLI programs, and many option names and semantics were reworked to make them more intuitive and memorable.
High quality video output: MPV has a OpenGL based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, and more. While mpv has no official GUI, it has a small controller that is triggered by mouse movement. mpv leverages the FFmpeg hwaccel APIs to support VDPAU, VAAPI, DXVA2, VDA and VideoToolbox video decode acceleration. In addition, it features better pause handling, VDPAU improvements, support for modifier keys, correct color reproduction, better handling of audio and video synchronization, high quality subtitles, as well as support for playing multiple files at the same time. Another interesting feature of mpv is the ability to play video files a higher quality than many other open source multimedia player applications, simply because it relies on the FFmpeg’s hwaccel APIs (supporting VAAPI, VDA and VDPAU video decode acceleration).

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atunes
There are wide variety of audio players available for Linux and you may have your favorite one installed on your system. aTunes is not new audio player but its initial release was way back in 2006 and the most recent version was released in June, 2014. In almost two years there is no news on the website or release from developers, well it is open-source released under GPL-V2 license and we don't see any other to carry on the development of this great application. It is written in Java programming language and it's cross-platform available for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. It uses Mplayer as its playback engine and supports wide variety of known formats such as: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA and other formats.

It allows user to rip tracks from audio CDs (for Linux it needs extra packages (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, icedax) or optional encoders (oggenc, lame, flac). Organizing audio collection is fairly easy and it is able to handle thousands of tracks as well as large playlists. A filtering option can be used to look for particular albums, artists or genres. Drag-and-Drop feature also comes in handy when you want to add something to your current playlist or play something.
Further more it can edit tags in a separate window MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, ra, rm; and it shows the picture included in ID3v2 tags. aTunes runs on any platform with a Java 6 or higher compatible Runtime Enviroment. Additionally users can play online radio stations, podcasts.
Interface is customizable, you can change the layout, use system theme for the player or use substance theme and there are plenty of them are built-in. Notifications are enabled by default but can be disabled or customized as per your needs, and show icon in the tray feature is also comes in handy.
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There are many audio players available for Linux and you may be using your favorite one and might ask why so many audio players, but there is no harm to try new stuff, you may consider it. Museeks a cross-platform, open-source audio player is around since last year (2016) and it is doing great. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac; written in Node.js, Electron, Flux with Redux and React.js languages and released under MIT license.
It feels like a clean interface, like good audio player should be, it has ability to play wide range of audio formats including: mp3, aac, m4a, wav, ogg, 3gpp and flac. The interface is easy to use, just add music library or add single files to play, also it allows you to manage audio, interface.

museeks

It can find audio file by itself and searching is fast and responsive, doesn't matter if the audio library is quite huge. Playlist feature is must have for any audio player and it does have, which makes easier to manage playlists from entire different tab (star icon on the left bottom). It has tray applet which is handy to access features like: pause, previous, next, show player, track info and quit; also it displays the notifications but can be disabled if you want.

museeks
Features:
  • Entire tab for playlists
  • Dark Theme
  • Native Notifications can be Disabled/Enabled
  • Search box can be selected using Ctrl+F
  • In-app playing animation
  • Faster and responsive search
  • Native OS window frame support
  • Tray Applet (Minimize to tray option)
  • Sleep Mode Blocker
  • Queue management
  • Shuffle, loop

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Shotcut is an open-source, free and cross-platform video editing software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Dan Dennedy, started Shotcut project in 2011 and it is developed on the MLT Multimedia Framework. Video editing has been never easy but Shotcut is an user-friendly and simple video editor that gives you tons of functions and features to edit/manage your videos with just mouse clicks, but do not under estimate this product because it has complex functions too that many paid product offers.
Supports wide variety of audio, video, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a timeline for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. You can easily analyze the video frame by frame, adjust every aspect of the video, and mix match frames resolution. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.

Shotcut can open and play MLT XML formats as clips which is quite interesting feature of it, you can even create and play MLT XML playlists with it and easily stream or encode. It comes with number of different video filters, such as 'Blur', 'Color Grading', 'Crop', 'Diffusion', 'Glow', 'Invert Colors', 'Mirror', 'Old Film: Dust', 'Old Film: Grain', 'Old Film: Projector', 'Old Film: Scratches', 'Old Film: Technocolor', 'Opacity', 'Rotate', 'Saturation', 'Sepia Tone', 'Sharpen', 'Size and Position', 'Stabilize', 'Text', 'Vignette', 'Wave', 'White Balance' which allows you to completely change the appearance of your video, color correction and grading also can be done using 'Color Wheels'.
Audio filters allows you to enhance the audio of video or audio tracks, these filters 'Balance', 'Bass & Treble', 'Band Pass', 'Compressor', 'Copy Channel', 'Delay', 'Downmix', 'Expander', 'Gain', 'High Pass', 'Limiter', 'Low Pass', 'Normalize', 'Notch', 'Pan', 'Reverb', 'Swap Channels' can help you adjust sound issue. Shotcut encodes video in to number of formats such as, AVI, M4A, MXF, VOB, FLV, MP4, M2T, MPG, MOV, OGG, WEBM, and others.


Features of Shotcut:

  • Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
  • Supports popular image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
  • No import required - native timeline editing
  • Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
  • Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
  • Webcam capture
  • Audio capture
  • Support for 4K resolutions
  • Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
  • Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
  • Color, noise, and counter generators
  • EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
  • Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
  • Video compositing across video tracks
  • HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
  • 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
  • Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
  • Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
  • Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations
  • Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the timeline
  • Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
  • Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
  • Audio mixing across all tracks
  • Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
  • Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline
  • OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component

>>>Available for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Shotcut Video Editor (Unofficial PPA) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

There is no official PPA or deb files are available at the moment but it offers you compiled packages, which can be opened with just single click.

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