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Kaku: A Highly Integrated (YouTube and SoundCloud) Media Player for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 14, 2017

Kaku is a free cross-platform integrated music and video player app with support for various online media streaming including YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.

Built by Chia-Lung, Chen (EragonJ) and other Open Source enthusiasts and contributors, it is released under the MIT license and features a minimal design UI, a playlist selection, video and audio support, and it is available in a good number of languages other than English including Espanol, Italiano, Polski, and Arabic, to name a few.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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