put.io is a service that takes care of downloading most of the things.
Anti-capitalist on-demand digital streaming platform launching in late 2019. Our subscribers will have access to a library of long- and short-form TV shows and movies - from talk shows, documentaries, stand-up comedy, to adult animation, dramas and more. Means TV will never have advertisers or corporate investors.
We’ll be be funded the old-fashioned way: by viewers like you, i.e., subscription based.
MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python. Install and run it on your library and it'll clean it up. Supports multiple file formats, accoustic fingerprinting to figure out what the track is.
Joseph Matheny's library and user page at the Internet Archive.
A streaming media server you host yourself. Can run without a container as a first-class implementation (thank you!) Designed with web browsers specifically in mind, not client software. Written in Java, but nobody's perfect (recommends the OpenJRE!)
The OMDb API is a RESTful web service to obtain movie information, all content and images on the site are contributed and maintained by our users.
Personal media server. Kind of like Kodi, but you can use platform specific clients to access your media, just like you can from the television. Streams media as necessary. There's even an HTML5 client so you can use your web browser instead of an app or client. You can use Kodi as a client, too.
Github: https://github.com/MediaBrowser
Rips mms:// streams to files on your hard drive.
An updated version of the Beyond Cyberpunk hypercard stack from the early 1990's. It's kind of dated (cyberpunk's kind of dated, truth be told), but as a historical resource, or a resource for fiction writers you might find it of interest.
An application that lets any laptop act as a DJ console. With it, you can mix audio files in many formats.
A wiki dealing with television watching and recording using Linux and F/OSS software.
The book that started the Creative Commons movement.
The Public Domain Manifesto.
A wiki dedicated to the Commodore-64 home computer.
The MAT2 is a set of tools for scrubbing the metadata (data about the origin and nature of files) from document files, images, audio recordings, and more. This data can be dangerous if anonymity is important to you.
Supports PNG, JPG, DOC, DOCX, PPT, ODT, TAR, BZ2, GZ, MP3, .torrent files, and too many others to list here.