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 · 5 unlabelled
Operator · 6 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21ytui_music0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based YouTube audio player that takes URLs or query input and plays the corresponding audio stream from YouTube.
- 22you-tui0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio from YouTube through a background service.
- 23yt-beats0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal music player that streams tracks from YouTube and plays local audio files.
- 24ytuff0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays local audio files and streams music from YouTube Music, supporting playlists and playback controls.
- 25ytui-music0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal YouTube client focused on music playback, allowing users to search, select, and play YouTube audio streams.
- 26ymph0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal helper that converts YouTube Music playlists into continuously playing audio streams.
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.