Navidrome is written in Go and released under GPL v3. It opens a Subsonic interface so a hundred and two existing clients connect, adds transcoding, several libraries and plug-ins, and the current release is 0.64.2.

A self-hosted open media server that files films, series and music into a library for playback on many devices, supports server-side transcoding and plugins, and can give each person in the household their own account; the current release is 12.2.

An open media centre for the living room that scans local films and music into one library with artwork and descriptions, designed for a remote control on the sofa, and extended through community add-ons; the current stable release is 21.3 Omega.

mpv is a free open source cross-platform media player built around the command line, with a deliberately minimal interface and video output covering colour management, interpolation and HDR. Version 0.41.0 makes gpu-next the default.

Anyone still collecting local music in the streaming era cares about two things, sound quality and order. Strawberry plays lossless files without complaint and organises a library by album, artist, genre and year, however many thousands of records it holds.

Subtitle Edit is a free, open-source subtitle editor that has been maintained since 2001, now cross-platform, with Whisper transcription and OCR for burned-in text.

An open-source utility that detects speech in a video audio track and shifts a mismatched subtitle file back into place, correcting frame rate drift as well, usable from the command line or in a browser page.

A playback bundle for Windows that puts a player, a splitter and decoder suite and a high-quality renderer together with sensible presets, so a file plays the first time instead of after an evening of matching components.

An open-source player built for watching a series rather than opening a single file: local video plays with a danmaku track overlaid, subtitles load alongside, the interface stays out of the way, and it runs on five platforms.