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 · 1 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 11 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21tuitify-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player for playing audio files directly from the command line.
- 22termus0★6 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio files from the command line.
- 23rolldice-gorou0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line music player with true shuffle for playing tracks from a user's collection.
- 24musiccli0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line music player that plays local audio files from the terminal.
- 25mtsp0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal music player that streams songs and manages playlists from the command line.
- 26draai0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line wrapper that enhances music player control by providing a more convenient interface for playing and managing music from the terminal.
- 27uade0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceEmulator that plays Amiga Delitracker music files on Unix systems, allowing users to listen to classic Amiga music.
- 28mpris-ctl0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that controls any MPRIS-compliant music player from the terminal.
- 29vspcplay0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that plays and visualizes SNES sound files and optimizes them for smaller file size.
- 30onhold0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that plays music for the duration of a long-running job.
- 31encore0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player for playing music from the command line.
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