Terminal Music Players
Music playback in the terminal runs from small players that read a folder of files, to clients for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), to front ends for streaming services.
These players handle local libraries in formats such as MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, read tags, manage playlists and queues, and often draw a visualizer or album art in the terminal. They work over SSH and on machines with no desktop environment, which is how many people play music on a home server.
Below is a list of terminal music players.
benben
A fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter.
A fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter.
cliamp
A terminal music player inspired by winamp.
A terminal music player inspired by winamp.
climp
A minimal CLI media player.
A minimal CLI media player.
cmus
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
kew
A fast, privacy friendly terminal music player to listen to music.
A fast, privacy friendly terminal music player to listen to music.
moc
A music player with a terminal user interface (TUI)
A music player with a terminal user interface (TUI)
musikcube
A cross-platform terminal-based music player
A cross-platform terminal-based music player
myx
A lean, beautiful terminal Spotify player.
A lean, beautiful terminal Spotify player.
ncspot
A cross-platform ncurses Spotify client.
A cross-platform ncurses Spotify client.
opencubicplayer
a text-based audio player with some few graphical views.
a text-based audio player with some few graphical views.
spotatui
A terminal music player for Spotify, local files, Subsonic, radio, and YouTube.
A terminal music player for Spotify, local files, Subsonic, radio, and YouTube.
spotify-player
A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
spotify-tui
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
ytm-player
A YouTube Music TUI client with vim keybindings, synced lyrics, and cross-platform media keys.
A YouTube Music TUI client with vim keybindings, synced lyrics, and cross-platform media keys.
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