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MUSIC PLAYER

Nuclear

Version: 0.6.5 Web: https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear

Among the dozens of YouTube downloaders that can be easily found on Github there’s the remarkable MPS-Youtube utility, which works as a command line music player for YouTube. If all you need is audio and you don’t care about video, this can be a great replacement for a convenient music player.

However, MPS-Youtube naturally lacks a graphical interface, which would be really sad if it weren’t for Nuclear. This is an outstanding streaming music player with an attractive Spotify-like interface, plug-ins, lyrics finder and a great selection of bells and whistles that together will blow your mind. Nuclear fetches music tracks from Invidious, Soundcloud, YouTube and Jamendo, and displays the unified search results list that you can use to populate your own playlists.

We can confidently say that there isn’t any known artist that Nuclear will fail to find – the search database is exceptionally large. In addition, the Local Library feature will chew through your existing music collection from the hard drive. Nuclear does its best to conquer audiophiles’ hearts!

If you’re wondering how all this functionality can be free of charge, without any intrusive ads and obligatory personal data collection, consult the bundled Legal.md file to find out. Nuclear is entirely legal, yet it gives you near-instant access to thousands of popular tracks.

One thing to bear in mind is that copyrighted music may be excluded, or replaced with something similar. Sooner or later you’ll encounter your favourite songs performed by chipmunks, replaced with freaky remixes or sung by cover bands. Sessions, rarities and B-sides of rock classics are also there to be found. Still, there are plenty of other reasons to give Nuclear a try – we haven’t even mentioned the ability to download whatever music the program has found for you.

There’s no need to mess with an overly complex Electron-based Nuclear source code unless you want to help develop it. A much simpler way is to get hold of Nuclear from Flathub.

AUDIO ENCODER

Simplest Studio

Version: 1.0 Web: https://github.com/SimplestStudio/simplest-studio

Just the other day we were thinking that it’s been a while covered a music tool. And then comes on to our radar. The utility is a beginner-friendly audio encoder. Technically, it’s a PyQt5-based graphical front-end to , which readers will be familiar with.