yt-dlp for downloading videos from various websites.
This one is amazing, especially when you realise various websites means, nearly any streaming platform. SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp etc, it knows them and can download whole archives of files. As we watch Twitter and Reddit totter and crumble it's time to realise this will happen with the sites that host your favourite podcast, unless you make offline copies
Recently found out about Stacher which is a GUI for yt-dlp
qBittorrent for a lightweight and open-source BitTorrent client.
Calibre for organizing, converting, and syncing eBooks.
Absolutely vital for anyone who uses an ebooks.
Jellyfin for a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications.
Sonarr for a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users that can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows.
RetroArch for a frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players with support for various platforms.
Radarr for an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent.
Tachiyomi for an Android app for reading manga from various sources.
Transmission for a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.
Musicbrainz Picard for fetching music metadata and standardizing file naming schemes.
Nicotine+ for a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
gallery-dl for a command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites.
jdownloader2 for a free download management tool.
Readarr for a fork of Radarr for eBooks and Audiobooks.
ffmpeg the Swiss army knife for everything video and audio.
Prowlarr for a meta-indexer that integrates with other applications like Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr.
Calibre-Web for a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading, and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database.
Overseer for a request management and media discovery tool built for the Plex ecosystem.
Plex. I know it’s not the open source option, but I love it.
With plex pass it detects intros and let’s you skip them. This silly feature got me to buy a lifetime pass.
It really surprised me the first time I saw the Skip intro button on a series I downloaded. It seems to work by analyzing the audio and comparing it between episodes from the same season.
mediainfo Know everything about your medias.
Czkawka for finding duplicate files and similar images.
ShareX for capturing and sharing screenshots, recordings, and other files.
Jackett for a single indexer API for multiple torrent trackers.
aria2 for downloading files.
mkvtoolnix create/edit mkv files. Very useful to remove or add subtitles or audio tracks amongst others.
deluge
mldonkey cross-platform multi-network p2p daemon
Navidrome for a self-hosted music server and streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients.
Lidarr for managing music collections for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
Bazarr for managing and downloading subtitles as a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr.
Romm for game collection and roms (it supports PC games aswell)
Tellico for a KDE application for organizing your collections, including books, videos, music, and more.
Tixati is an alternative torrenting program that I switched to from QBitorrent.
rtorrent great to download torrents especially on a server.
hydrus for a desktop application for managing a personal collection of images, videos, and other files.
(didn't see you posted this one as I was posting it)
yt-dlp youtube-dl fork that is more current and works better for tons of sites to download media.
Deluge run headless. Great Android mobile app.
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