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CLUSTER MUSIC-STREAMING-TERMINAL · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-08-23

Terminal TIDAL music clients

This cluster consists of terminal-based applications that let users browse, search, and control music from streaming services (notably TIDAL) using keyboard-driven, vim-style navigation. The dated history before the index start includes only four entries, too thin to read a shape from, indicating the cluster predates the index or its members are largely undated. Among traction leaders, riptide, waxon-bin, and ncspot show the highest activity signal, though each currently has zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2025: 2MAR 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1OCT 2026: 2
AUG 2025OCT 2026

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 · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 6 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01apple-music-tui2★8 days—hobbyTerminal app that controls Apple Music playback, search, and queue through keyboard shortcuts.
  2. 02crabseek-bin0★10 daysliveopen sourceKeyboard-driven terminal client for searching and downloading music from the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
  3. 03riptide0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that lets users browse and play songs from the Tidal streaming service.
  4. 04waxon-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that lets users browse and control a music streaming service using vim-style keyboard navigation.
  5. 05ncspot0★unknownliveopen sourceTerminal-based application that lets users browse, search, and play music from a streaming music account.
  6. 06tidal-cli-client-python0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceKeyboard-driven terminal client for TIDAL music streaming that allows browsing, searching, and playing tracks.
  7. 07mtsp30★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAdvanced terminal music player featuring streaming, playlist management, and additional tools.

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.