CLUSTER MUSIC-CLIENT-DAEMON · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-12-21
Music daemon client apps
This cluster comprises desktop and terminal clients that control music player daemons (MPD, Music Assistant, Spotify) for library browsing, playlist management, and playback control, along with auxiliary tools for scrobbling and desktop notifications. The dated entries span from 2018-03 to 2026-04, appearing intermittently at roughly one per few months, showing a steady but sparse presence with no clear acceleration or pattern. The highest activity signals are goscrobble, cantata, and musnify-mpd, which lead on traction within the cluster.
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 · 1 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 11 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01weej1★8 dayslivehobbyWindows client that lets users control application volumes and screen brightness using a physical desktop mixer with knobs and sliders.
- 02goscrobble0★2 moliveopen sourceCross-platform daemon that records played tracks and reports them to scrobbling services.
- 03cantata0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop client that controls Music Player Daemon, allowing users to browse and play music through a graphical interface.
- 04Argos0★5 moliveopen sourceMusic player client that controls a remote music server, designed for desktop computers and small touchscreen devices.
- 05xonora-cli-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal UI client that connects to Music Assistant to control music playback and browse the library.
- 06sonata0★9 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop music client for MPD that offers a graphical interface for browsing and playing local music collections.
- 07Cantata0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop client that controls a remote music server, managing playlists, library browsing, tagging, and lyrics lookup.
- 08mpdcon.app0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceClient application that connects to a music player daemon and provides a graphical interface for controlling playback.
- 09cantata-legacy0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLegacy graphical client for Music Player Daemon that offers browsing and playback controls for desktop users.
- 10ymuse-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop client for Music Player Daemon that lets users browse their music library and control playback.
- 11ymuse0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop client for Music Player Daemon that lets users browse their music library and control playback.
- 12Ymuse0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that connects to a music server daemon to browse libraries, manage playlists, and control audio playback.
- 13rmpc0★unknownlivehobbyA terminal-based client that controls a music player daemon, showing album art and offering file-browser style song navigation.
- 14spotify-qt0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop client that connects to a running Spotify playback daemon, letting users browse and control music playback as a lightweight alternative to the official app.
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.