CLUSTER CLIENT-MUSIC-TERMINAL · 18 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-12-10
Terminal music streaming clients
This cluster consists of terminal-based clients for browsing, playing, and controlling music from services such as Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, Roon, and others, often integrating with MPRIS or Discord. The dated entries before the index start span from 2008 to 2026, with an early entry in 2008, a long gap, then sporadic releases from 2019 onward, and the highest number of entries in 2026. The highest traction signals are spotatui, rptui-bin, and myx, though all currently have zero stars, indicating minimal adoption.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 16 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 18 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01SpotLight45★12 days—hand-codedhobbyA lightweight desktop client for Spotify that plays music and shows synchronized lyrics with a minimal native interface.
- 02spotatui0★20 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client that lets users browse and play their Spotify music library from the command line.
- 03sonicli2★20 days—hobbyTerminal-based Spotify player that controls playback on connected devices or outputs audio locally with a keyboard-first interface.
- 04myx0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal client for streaming Spotify music with a minimal interface.
- 05rptui-bin0★26 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client for Radio Paradise that streams music with a text-based interface.
- 06opendeezer0★3 moliveopen sourceA terminal client for browsing and streaming Deezer music.
- 07ncspot0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based client that streams and controls a premium music-streaming subscription's playback across desktop and BSD systems.
- 08fum-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based music client that controls playback via MPRIS and is highly customizable.
- 09evad0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceText-based client for controlling a music server from the terminal.
- 10lazyspotify-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal client that connects to Spotify and streams music from playlists.
- 11soundcloud-tui0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal client for playing and browsing SoundCloud music directly from the command line.
- 12deezer-tui-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal app for listening to Deezer music, featuring Discord presence and media player integration.
- 13inori0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal client for Music Player Daemon that offers efficient searching of songs.
- 14spotifatius0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool showing currently playing Spotify songs in system status bars.
- 15roon-tui0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal client to control Roon music player.
- 16spotifox0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based client that plays and controls Spotify music from the command line, similar to go-musicfox.
- 17spogo0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal client for Spotify that provides music playback with a clean interface.
- 18spotify-tui-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal client for streaming Spotify music with a text-based user interface.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.