 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today I'm going to be talking about the top five terminal apps that I use every day So these are just five really cool apps that I've just decided to work into my workflow and I thought I would share them So let's go ahead and jump right in but first First of all hit the subscribe button if you haven't subscribed We just hit 2,000 subscribers and I'm super excited about that So thanks everybody who has subscribed if you haven't subscribed yet Make sure you hit the subscribe button and we're also on odyssey So you can check on our odyssey and library and all that stuff The links will be in the show notes below if you'd rather not deal with YouTube nonsense So let's you go ahead and jump right into the topic for the day. Shall we? Okay, so the first one that I want to talk about is NC spot so NC spot is a terminal Spotify client and Really that's exactly all it is and that's all you really should have to say about it So if you use Spotify premium, you can use this in your terminal And you can play all the songs that you've saved to your library or playlists The only thing it doesn't really do as far as I know is Stations so it will actually show you similar tracks and stuff But it won't show you like a radio station But it will it will go through and it will show you all of your Playlists and it'll show you your podcast that you've subscribed to I believe it will actually show you the most recent podcast in there Yeah, I'll show you all the most recent podcasts actually so that's kind of really cool I don't actually use this for podcasts, but you could use it for podcasts if you're Subscribed to all your podcasts on Spotify speaking of which the Linux cast is on Spotify So if you want to subscribe there you definitely can so It also has like if you wanted to add stuff to your library you can search by hitting f2 So you can you do f2 and then you can search for I don't know And it will show you everything you you need to know about breaking Benjamin all their tracks Albums artists stuff and you just press oh in order to get into the artists and Just go like that and then backspace to get to the where you were before what I like about it Is that it's fast it doesn't take up a lot of resources like the Spotify client does Because it doesn't deal with electron and all that kind of container e-bull crap So NC spot is the first one that I want to show you the next one is Ranger now Ranger is a terminal file application file manager and I use this pretty much every day so much so that I have it bound to a key binding that will actually open up in a scratch pad so If you don't know what a scratch pad is I have a video that I did on scratch pad, which I'll link in the cards above But basically Ranger just allows you to browse your files now In theory you can go through and have like It does have image previews by default so you can turn those on and it will work That's Ranger the only thing I really wish there was like drag and drop capabilities in this now There is like supposedly like a plug-in or something that you can go through and Put in there and it will actually allow you to drag stuff out of Ranger and put it into like Firefox or something But I've never been able to get it to work I still have to have a visual file manager on hand in order to do all that kind of stuff and unfortunately that means that I always have Nemo open up opened up so sometimes I just use that but when I just need to find a file Or I need to edit like a text a text file or something like to go to a documents. I'm sure I have something here I Got I have a couple strips that I could just go through you know and just open it up just like that That's what Ranger is good for for me. So that is Ranger. The next one. I wanted to talk about was neomutt now Neomutt is an email client and I have two email accounts attached to it and basically just allows you to Access your email through the terminal and there's a lot of stuff you can do with it You can send Encrypted emails and stuff like that with different plugins that you can add I'd also have a video on how to set this up with Gmail if you want to check that out And this is my email client now with all the HTML stuff that comes through It's not the greatest. So I do have links installed. So it will actually show me some of the HTML content But it's still not pretty. So if you're Mostly get HTML stuff into your email inbox. This may not be the best for you But if you're looking for something that's not so heavy like Thunderbird Neomutt is a good option Now the next one I want to talk about is be pie top if I can spell yeah, and this is be pie top This is a system resource monitor It's awesome. It's pretty it has a whole bunch of different modes so that you can make you can kind of change What it you know how it looks like it has different themes so you can do a Different themes you can do a Dracula Adapta great scale Solarize dark white out matcha Monokai flat Remix light, you know, just a whole bunch other ones and it's just really cool I mean it shows you your system temperatures which mine's running pretty hot right now because I have audacity and OBS running in the background I almost always had this on a You know either a scratch pad or On on a tag somewhere so that can just kind of keep an eye on my system monitor Or on my system status and stuff further So that is be pie tops. So that was for the fifth one is an app called Pulse mixer now If you know anything about my Linux story, you'll know that I Have problems with Linux audio all the time and just today I had another situation where I plugged in a new camera and For whatever reasons reason Linux has decided to make that camera the default audio input source And I had to change that so and I changed that using Pulse mixer so basically it allows you to see your inputs Here's your outputs inputs and the cards you have attached your computer and then you can scroll through them You can change the volume by hitting enter you can go through and hit you can set new things as default change What's being used by the system by default that's Pulse mixer very simple I should probably not close that so fast, but I use this all the time because I have my Dac hooked up all the time my headphones hooked into the deck all the time But sometimes I don't want to listen to my headphones I actually want to listen through the speakers that are up there in my you know on my shelf So I have to go through and change the source. I Can't just unplug my DAC. I'd be a pain in the ass every time I have to do that So it's just either to you know hit Super oh and have my pulse mixers show up and then I can go through and change You know the output or the input or whatever So just to recap real quick. I went through and I showed you NC spot I showed you Ranger. I showed you Neo mutt. I showed you be pie top and I showed you Pulse mixer. I think that's five Neo mutt Neo NC spot Ranger be pie top pulse mixer. Yep, that's five. So That was just a real quick video those are five of my favorite terminal applications I Tend to always try to find a terminal alternative to whatever I'm doing if I can't so Especially things that are gonna be kind of something that I use all the time So if it's like email or if it's music or whatever, I want to use that in the terminal if I can just because I Like terminal applications. It's not necessarily because they're always better because they're not always better there's usually there situations where you want a obviously a Graphical file manager or you want a graphical term Graphical email client So, I mean there are situations where the terminal stuff isn't the greatest but for me it just I like having that stuff and I like The ability to put them on scratch pads or close them or bind them to keys or run them in scripts or whatever and It's just for me. That's the way it works So in the comments below if you have a terminal application that you particularly enjoy or two or three Shot them out. I'd love to I'm always loving to try new stuff. So And I really highly enjoy our conversations down there. So thanks everybody for Participating in the in the community that seems to be growing pretty good. 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