XMMS is dead, long live Audacious. But what happens to all the cool plugins? With Infinity, one of them has now been resurrected.

By their own accord, the Amarok music player people are working on the "coolness factor" for Amarok 2.1 and hope to make a good first impression with their Beta 1.

If Audacity, Ardour, or ReZound are too muddled for your taste, try the easy and powerful Jokosher audio editor.

The free OpenSolaris UNIX derivative from Sun has not exactly been known for its multimedia capabilities. This should soon change.

The free music portal Last.fm is known for offering worldwide users an unlimited array of Internet radio options. Now, certain users will have to pay three bucks a month.

The Songbird music player is now out as version 1.1. Next to some normalization enhancements, the free software includes a watch folders feature and optimized album cover downloads.

We'll show you how to tune up your Linux system for multimedia applications.