CLUSTER MUSIC-PLAYER-PLAYS · 34 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-03-23
Terminal music players
This cluster consists of terminal-based music players that play local audio files, often with keyboard-driven interfaces, library browsing, and streaming support. Dated entries span 2017-07 to 2026-07, but the sparse per-month counts (mostly 1-2) make the history too thin to read a clear shape. Traction leaders are all at 0 stars: maly, python-maestro-cli, and mpv-music.
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 · 11 unlabelled
Operator · 14 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.
- 21moo0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal music player that automatically curates smart playlists from the user's music library.
- 22festival-cli-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that plays audio from a local music collection.
- 23tuna-music0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio files with a real-time visualizer for terminal users.
- 24termitune0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal user interface music player for playing local MP3 audio files.
- 25zic-player0★10 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceA lightweight terminal music player written in Python for playing local audio.
- 26cli-modplayer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays MOD, XM, and S3M tracker formats with real-time visuals.
- 27musikcube0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based music player with audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
- 28rmup0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that plays local audio files and organizes a music library.
- 29termusix-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio tracks through a text-based interface.
- 30texturedplayer0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceText-based music player that plays songs inside a terminal interface.
- 31tori-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that plays audio tracks with a frictionless interface.
- 32tap0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based audio player with fuzzy search for quickly finding and playing music.
- 33think0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal app that plays a short musical cue for thinking pauses.
- 34playx0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal app that searches for and plays songs from within the terminal.
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