CLUSTER MUSIC-PLAYER-TERMINAL · 31 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-11-13
Terminal music players
This cluster consists of 28 terminal-based music players and command-line audio utilities, ranging from simple beep players to wrappers for engines like MPV and MOC. The dated history shows a sparse early period from 2005 to 2024, followed by a gradual increase in entry frequency from mid-2025 through mid-2026, with the largest single month being November 2025 (3 entries). Traction leaders are all at 0 stars, indicating no member has achieved notable user adoption or activity.
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 · 4 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 19 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01bm-terminal-music-player0★19 daysliveopen sourceMinimalist terminal-based music player for playing audio files from a command line.
- 02moc-development0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based audio player that lets users play music from the command line and supports standard audio output and MIDI playback.
- 03qqm0★2 daysliveopen sourceTerminal music player for QQ Music that runs as a background daemon and supports MPRIS desktop integration.
- 04moc-stable-complete0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal music player for listening to audio files from a command-line interface.
- 05cmdbeeper0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that plays beep sounds through the system audio server.
- 06trix-player0★1 moliveopen sourceKeyboard-driven terminal music player for playing audio files from the command line on Linux.
- 07sparkplayer0★1 moliveopen sourceAudio and video player that runs in the terminal, letting users play media files with keyboard controls.
- 08suzumushi-bin0★18 daysliveopen sourceLocal terminal audio player for Linux that provides a calm music listening experience.
- 09audium0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player with keyboard-driven controls for command-line users.
- 10optionmusic0★28 daysliveopen sourceMinimal black-and-white command-line music player that plays audio files using the MPV engine.
- 11Music-CLI0★1 mo—hobbyCommand-line music player that lets users play and manage music from a terminal.
- 12ter-music0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio files from the command line.
- 13namp0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based audio player for listening to music files.
- 14daph0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal music player that lets users play audio from the command line.
- 15meloic0★10 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceA simple terminal-based music player that lets users listen to audio files directly from the command line.
- 16sonido0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based music player that lets users play local audio files from the command line.
- 17lmplayer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line music player for Linux that plays audio files directly from the terminal.
- 18harmony0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line music streamer built on MPV that plays audio from various sources.
- 19aurras0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line music player that plays audio files with an interactive interface.
- 20exo-player0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop music player that provides a graphical interface to the MOC command-line audio player.
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