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    OBS Project

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    Professional screen recording and live streaming

    Open source 90 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  2. Audacity

    Audacity Team

    87

    Free audio recording and editing

    Open source 87 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  3. Shotcut

    Meltytech, LLC

    87

    Free cross-platform video editor

    Open source 87 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  4. HandBrake

    The HandBrake Team

    87

    Convert video to modern formats at smaller sizes

    Open source 81 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  5. VLC Media Player

    VideoLAN

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    Plays almost every video and audio format

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
  6. Elisa

    KDE e.V.

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    Music Player

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  7. Kdenlive

    KDE e.V.

    72

    Professional open-source video editing

    Open source 77 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  8. 67

    Transcribe and translate audio

    Open source 77 LinuxmacOS
  9. Feishin

    jeffvli

    67

    A modern self-hosted music player.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  10. FilmCraft

    Learning Machines LLC

    67

    Video editing, color and sound; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Premiere Pro, rebuilt in pure Rust

    Open source 77 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  11. Jellyfin MPV Shim

    Ian Walton

    67

    Jellyfin MPV Shim is a cross-platform cast client for Jellyfin.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  12. 67

    Trims video and audio files losslessly

    Open source 77 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  13. MediathekView

    MediathekView Team

    67

    The MediathekView program searches the media libraries of various predominantly German-speaking public broadcasters, downloads articles from them or plays them back.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  14. ncspot

    Henrik Friedrichsen

    67

    ncspot is an ncurses Spotify client written in Rust using librespot. It is heavily inspired by ncurses MPD clients, such as ncmpc.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  15. nuclear

    nukeop

    67

    Streaming music player that finds free music for you.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  16. SMPlayer

    Ricardo Villalba

    67

    Free Media Player for Windows and Linux with Youtube support.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  17. SoundCraft

    Learning Machines LLC

    67

    An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of the Avid Pro Tools workflow in pure Rust

    Open source 77 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  18. 67

    A unofficial player for YouTube Music on desktop

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  19. Tenacity

    Tenacity Team

    67

    An easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder.

    Open source 70 WindowsLinux
  20. Spotube

    KRTirtho, OSS

    67

    Spotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience

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  21. Mixxx

    Mixxx Project

    67

    Free and open source DJ software for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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  22. Stremio Service

    Smart Code OOD

    67

    Freedom to Stream. Enjoyed by more than 30 million users worldwide.

    Open source 60 WindowsLinux
  23. Tauon Music Box

    Taiko2k

    67

    The desktop music player from the future!

    Open source 60 WindowsLinux
  24. Avidemux

    Avidemux

    67

    Avidemux is a simple platform video editor for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

    Open source 32 WindowsLinux
  25. fre:ac

    Robert Kausch / freeac.org

    67

    fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey's Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats.

    Open source 32 WindowsLinux
  26. LMMS

    LMMS Developers

    67

    LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer.

    Open source 32 WindowsLinux
  27. Volume Control

    radj307

    67

    Specific-Application Volume Control Hotkeys for Windows.

    Open source 32 WindowsLinux
  28. CPod

    Zachary James Guard

    67

    A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    Open source 30 WindowsLinux
  29. Camera

    The GNOME Project

    52

    Take pictures and videos

    Open source 74 Linux
  30. Cine

    Diego Povliuk

    52

    Play your videos

    Open source 74 Linux

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