 It's really hard to believe that August is already here and frankly this year has just gone entirely too fast. I don't know about you guys but the time is just completely flying by. In another month I've been doing this channel for an entire year and that's just mind blowing. Every month I go through and showcase 5 spectacular Linux apps that I think you should definitely check out and this month is no different. So let's go ahead and jump into the top 5 apps of the month for August 2021. Before we do, if you'd like to submit an app for this list, you can do so in the comments below. Just give me the name of the app and the developer if you know them. Don't leave a link because Google will delete those things so just give me the app name and I can probably do some Googling and find what you're talking about. So now let's go ahead and jump in. So the first one on the list is called Sayonara Player. Now this was asked for by someone by the name of Krishna Das. I'm probably butching your name so I apologize for that. So Krishna asked for an application to manage a large media library and Sayonara Player is one of them that I found. Now I'm not going to guarantee that this is the best option out there. I think that Rhythm Box is also very good for this and probably works a little bit better. And I'll talk about that here in a minute. But let's talk about what Sayonara is to begin with. It's basically just a music player and it allows you to go through and manage your music library in the same ways you would expect an app like this to do. You can go through and have multiple libraries if you like say let's say you do a good job of actually maintaining your library and have genres and stuff in different directories. You can go through and create different libraries like that. You can go through and edit tags. You can edit album art and all that kind of stuff right here within the app and it's really great. It kind of gives you the iTunes-ish vibes because it's very a very busy interface kind of like iTunes at least used to be and it's really quite nice. Now it does have some plugins that are available. I haven't actually played around with them too much but you can go through and find things like podcasts and streams and play with an equalizer and so things like that. One thing I will say is that it's not the fastest application out there. I did notice as it loads album art from the internet it actually kind of freezes so that's not great but I will say that of all the the music players that I've ever used this one imported my library the fastest now I don't know whether that's because I have my music library on the SSD in my computer or if it's just natively fast I don't know but it was very quick it took less than a minute to actually import the entire library so that was really cool. So that is Cyanar a player. The next one on the list is called conversing. Now weird name aside basically what this app does is allows you to batch edit photos so you can go through and convert them to different types of photos you can go through and change the dimensions of several different photos at the same time you can go through and change the resolution and do scaling and all that kind of stuff you can also change the output of several different files or images at the same time. It's really quite powerful it works really well so I'm gonna actually go ahead and show you how this works. So I have three files here and I just dragged and dropped them into conversing here and then what I can do is just go through and select these all three of these and I can scale them to a different percentage if I wanted to I can go down here and change the resolution to something different and this basically adds to the X and Y I believe and then I could go through and change where they're saved as well and rename them if I wanted to so you could add like a prefix or a suffix or a progressive number if you wanted to to say you had like a hundred files and they're all dates or whatever you could go through and name them screenshot and then have a progressive number at the end of the name so that's really cool right and you can actually go through and like I said you can convert these to something different if you wanted to as well. So that is conversing it's really quite neat and it's really actually quite fast so I just did three files here and actually didn't change anything truly change anything but if you have like hundreds of files it actually does go through and do them really really fast. You can also go through and change the files that have a whole say your files have your excuse me let's say your images have transparent backgrounds you could go through and replace the transparent backgrounds with colors you can also change the format to different formats down here as well like I said so that is conversing I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right or not. Okay the next one is called Demix GUI now I can't really test this because I don't have a Deezer account but if you use Deezer as your streaming music platform of choice so this is something like Spotify but it's you know obviously different service and you want a native application for Linux Demix GUI is an option now this was submitted by Brandon Sanchez in the comments of last month's video so if you have a application you'd like to submit you can do so in the comments of this video and I may use that in next months or the months after that. Like I said I can't actually go through and test this all that much and I even if I could I couldn't go through and actually play anything on stream without getting demonetized but from what I see there's a lot of stuff here that you can actually do you can obviously login to Deezer and that will allow you to sync your playlist and such you can download things songs and albums and stuff directly to your computer for offline play it looks like you can actually change the color of this thing as well which is you know kind of cool and as you can see this is very very responsive so and actually it looks like you can pretty much change to a custom color too if you want I don't maybe that's not what that means but anyways that is really really cool and I like said I don't use Deezer I've been kind of transitioning into using my own music but if you're use Deezer DMX GUI is a what looks like a very cool application for being able to use Deezer natively on your Linux desktop thank you Brandon for submitting that the next one on the list is called Clapper now Clapper is a GTK based minimal video player and it works really really well and it's really really quite minimal there's not a lot you can do here if you're looking for all the features that VLC has you're going to be disappointed this is just a video player but it does do some cool things so it goes through and will actually obviously play local video files if you want but you can also play YouTube videos similar to what I'm doing here I took the URL of last month's video for apps of the month and put it into this program here using this up here just open URL and then it started playing it and there's several preferences obviously but there's not a ton of stuff that you can do here it's meant to be very simple and just be a very good very minimal music player and that's really all Clapper is meant to do one of the cool things that it does is that if you are playing a video that has black bars in it so this one kind of does you can actually go through and get rid of those black bars by pressing this button here and it'll actually zoom in so those black bars go away so if you you don't want to watch black bars so it's kind of similar like to what happens if you're on a phone that has a weird aspect ratio when you zoom in on a video it will kind of get rid of those black bars that does that similar in this video in this application as well obviously you can also go full screen as well another cool thing that I noticed is that if you're in full screen it'll actually tell you when your video is meant to end the actual time up here at the top that's really really cool so that is Clapper the final one on the list for this month is called notes now notes is a very simple very minimal note taking application and the reason why I'm featuring it on the list is because it's very well designed now it doesn't really fit very well in a tiling window manager it's really kind of meant for a floating window manager but it's not atrocious in a tiling window manager either it is full features so it'll allow you to go through and create notes and stuff like that it's not as full feature does something like Evernote or whatever it's meant for just simple note taking so you just go through and you can type your note here your note here and then if you use notes on another platform so say for instance you have to use a Mac or a Windows machine you can actually sync between notes instances now there are no mobile applications yet which is a little disappointing if notes had a mobile version I'd be buying into this really hard because I really truly like it a lot but they don't have a mobile application so that's disappointing but if you do need synchronizing between Windows Mac and Linux notes is a great option now there aren't a ton of options here at least as far as I could tell I don't know whether or not because I'm in a tiling window manager if I'm missing the options panel like maybe they're supposed to be like a global menu here somewhere I don't know but as far as I can tell all that's here is the delete button and the search button and add new that's literally all there is like I said it's possible that because I'm in a tiling window manager there's something missing in terms of a menu system but other than that I mean the reason why I say I think that's something missing is because it does have syncing capabilities so somewhere there's a menu system I just don't know where it's at maybe I'm missing it somewhere I don't know hi there Matt from the future I'm right in the middle of talking about no the notes application that I'm showcasing for this month's video and there are a few things that I forgot about and one thing that I need to explain as I'm about to say it's possible that the reason why there's not a menu system in my version of notes is because it's a snap I don't know whether or not that's true you'll hear about that here in a second but according to the documentation there is a menu system within notes it's a three dot system next to the delete button for whatever reason my version of the application doesn't have it I don't know why it's really weird and I'm assuming like I said before it has something to do with the fact that I'm in a tiling window manager either that or it's a snap problem I'd have a tendency to always blame snaps so you know whatever the other thing that I forgot to mention while I was talking about notes is that this application supports markdown so if you're a markdown person you'll be able to use markdown directly in this and it'll translate to mark to mark down in real time so that's definitely something that's really cool if you're interested if only damn thing had a mobile application I'd really like it even more back to past Matt and the rest of the video it's also possible that this is an old version because I had to install it via the snap store I could not get this to work through the version that's in the AUR so that could be playing around with something as well so just keep that in mind if you choose to use this your mileage may vary in the syncing functionality hopefully it's just a thing that's going on with my machine so that is the list for this month again if you have an application you'd like to see featured next month or the month after that leave the app name in the comments below make sure you like comment and subscribe all that kind of stuff I really truly do appreciate all the support channels getting we're getting very very close to 4,000 subscribers I would love to see that by the end of August so if you haven't subscribed make sure you hit that subscribe button I really again I really truly do appreciate everyone who has subscribed and commented and liked my videos over the last year so thank you for watching if you'd like to follow me you can follow me on twitter at the linuxcast you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast before I go I'd like to 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