CLUSTER MUSIC-YOUTUBE-TERMINAL · 26 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-02-22
Terminal YouTube music players
This cluster consists of terminal-based music players that stream audio from YouTube or YouTube Music, often with keyboard-driven controls and some supporting local files. Dated entries appear sparsely from 2018 through 2024, then concentrate in early-to-mid 2026 with multiple entries per month from February to July. The traction leader is yt-collate with 50 stars, while most other members have zero stars.
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 · 19 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 18 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.
- 01yt-collate47★1 mo—hobbyTerminal-based client that lets users browse and play YouTube Music through a text interface for efficient playback.
- 02jukebox-cli0★26 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that plays local files, searches YouTube, and streams live radio in one queue.
- 03youtube-music-cli-bin0★28 daysliveopen sourceTerminal interface music player that streams and plays music from YouTube Music.
- 04moroder-bin0★29 daysliveopen sourceTerminal app that plays music from YouTube Music with album art and Discord integration.
- 05playy0★4 daysliveopen sourceTerminal music player that merges local music folders with YouTube Music into one library for offline and online listening.
- 06gtm-player-bin0★5 daysliveopen sourceTerminal audio player that plays music from YouTube and Spotify, along with radio stations and podcasts, via a background daemon.
- 07gtm-player0★5 daysliveopen sourceTerminal audio player that plays music from YouTube and Spotify, along with radio stations and podcasts, via a background daemon.
- 08yt-collate0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal user interface client for browsing and playing music from YouTube Music.
- 09yututui-bin0★22 dayslivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal-based music player that streams YouTube Music with low memory usage.
- 10mutui0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based music player that streams from YouTube and plays local files.
- 11ytermusic0★1 moliveopen sourceFast terminal-based player for streaming music from YouTube.
- 12yt-play0★21 days—hobbyTerminal app that plays audio-only YouTube streams in the background for music listening.
- 13ytm-player0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based client for browsing and playing YouTube Music with keyboard shortcuts.
- 14tusic0★3 moliveopen sourceLightweight terminal user interface music player that streams music from YouTube or plays local music folder.
- 15youtui0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based player for YouTube Music with artist-to-album navigation workflows.
- 16ytmgo0★21 daysliveopen sourceTerminal client that searches, downloads, queues, and plays music from YouTube Music using keyboard controls.
- 17youplaytx0★3 moliveopen sourceA terminal-based audio player with a dual-pane interface for browsing and playing YouTube audio content.
- 18vimyt-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that plays YouTube Music and provides vim-style keyboard controls.
- 19aspect0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that streams audio from YouTube and enables listening from the command line.
- 20reverbic-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal media player that streams radio, Spotify, and YouTube content in one tool.
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.