multimedia

Audio and Video

• OpenAI Whisper
  • Can create transcripts/subtitles from many languages
  • Currently all languages can be auto-translated into English
  • My experience was that you should prefer the large dataset; smaller datasets provide much worse results

Audio

• MusicBrainz Picard (picard)
  • Auto audio file tagging (flac, mp3, ...)
  • Supports acoust ID (audio fingerprint)
  • Settings stored here (Picard needs to be started at least once): Win: C:\Users\<Name>\AppData\Roaming\MusicBrianz\Picard.ini Linux: ~/.config/MusicBrainz/Picard.ini
• fre:ac https://www.freac.org/
  • "fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing and converts between various audio file formats."
  • FLAC options
• xcfa Similar to fre:ac but only available for Linux
  • fre:ac is probably the better alternative since it is better maintained but both are great tools
• ReplayGain
  • FLAC: metaflac (part of flac package): metaflac --add-replay-gain ./*.flac / --scan-replay-gain to just display the values without writing it
  • mp3gain: mp3gain -s s -o -q ./*.mp3 (-s s only display without changing it)
• Audacity
  • Audio file editing/processing
• Mixxx
  • DJ-ing software

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Good, but superseeded by the software mentioned above:

• XCFA (not to be confused with the XFCE desktop environment)
  • CD-ripping
• mpsyt
  • youtube command line player for music and videos uses youtube-dl and mpv for downloading and playing youtube videos
• EasyTAG
  • ID-3 Tags (convenient mp3 file tagging)

Video

• kdenlive
  • Video cutting and composing/sequencing
• mpv
  • Lightweigt video playback
• VLC
  • Audio + video playback
• FFmpeg: can do basically everything you can imagine ;)

Pictures

• Darktable
  • Display RAW images
• Blender
  • 3D-Modelling
• Inkscape
  • Create 2D vector graphics
• The GIMP
  • Create 2D pixel graphics
• Weasis
  • Read DICOM files (2D/3D, measurement, ...)

Docs

PDF

• pdfarranger: great GUI tool to create bookmarks, mix and match pdf's
  • Great alternative for pdfmod and pdfshuffler; both are either not always stable or no longer available on the official repositories (e.g. Ubuntu)
  • Also available on Windows! (not only via WSL)
• pdfmod: great GUI tool to create bookmarks, mix and match pdf's
• ghostscript: pdf Swiss Army Knife

LaTeX

• texlive-full: LaTeX packages (all; makes it easier instead of finding and installing each package individually)
• texstudio: Best LaTeX IDE