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24 alternatives to xk media library
CLI alternative to Plex
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. xk media library launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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99+ CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library - chapmanjacobd/library
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Permute 4.0▲227The ultimate media converter for macOS
Jun 2026 · software.charliemonroe.net · its alternatives →
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Securely upload images and videos + Share links instantly
2025 · imagekit.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, just wanted to share my success story with CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS. For those who may not be familiar, FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content. I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab and sharing with my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary. People loved it, they said that I was bringing the Pied Piper to life. Four months later, I hit the $9,000…
2024 · compressx.app · its alternatives →
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Revolutionary web-based streaming software.
2023 · wave.video · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A video manager for those that have too many videos - kumpelblase2/vima
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Manage WordPress media library folders and files much faster
2018 · codecanyon.net · its alternatives →
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MediaOptim▲92Compress images, video & audio locally and save storage
May 2026 · mediaoptim.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there, This is just a shameless self-plug about a personal project of mine: "Using mpv and mpvc to play and manage the stuff I listen." To that end I've forked the great https://github.com/lwilletts/mpvc and started hacking around, so far I've focused on: getting a minimal TUI working, improving the CLI, playing online music (eg. youtube and other streaming services), and bugfixes (including the introducing new ones). The project is mainly developed, and, used under Debian/Ubuntu systems so expect the best results with these. What I expect from sharing in HN is: -…
2022 · gmt4.github.io · its alternatives →
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I've been building open-source tools in the video/multimedia space for 10+ years. Finally shipped the commercial product I always wanted to exist — Video Commander, a desktop app that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, VMAF and more into a single workspace where you can inspect, encode and analyze video. Built with Tauri + Rust backend, React frontend. FFmpeg and VMAF. Not a cool AI/LLM project, just a tool I've been heads-down building over the last six months. Happy to answer any questions!
Apr 2026 · video-commander.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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You ever just want to shrink a video… and suddenly you’re buried in flags, half-broken StackOverflow answers, and 10 tabs open just to figure out one command? That’s been me. Every. Single. Time. So I built FFmpeg Pages — a dead-simple collection of the commands I kept searching for. No fluff, no digging, just the stuff that actually works.
2025 · ffmpegs.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Free, fast mp3 streaming with songs/playlist from YouTube
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Organize, tag, and browse your local media library. no cloud
Jul 2026 · mediachips.app · its alternatives →
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