This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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Author: Luke Baker
Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player
Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.
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Musicalypse – audio player and server built with Web technologies
Musicalypse is cross-platform software that offers both an audio player and server functionality. It’s built with web technologies.
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Violin – minimalistic desktop music player
Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.
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cli-visualizer – command line visualizer for MPD, ALSA and PulseAudio
cli-visualizer is a command line visualizer inspired by C.A.V.A, ncmpcpp, and rainbow. It’s free and open source software.
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LyricPad – access lyrics over the web with this Qt based app
LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.
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fre:ac – free audio converter and CD ripper
fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between a variety of popular formats.
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Olivia – Elegant, Powerful Cloud Music Player For Linux
Olivia is an online/offline cloud-based music player like iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube Music. Olivia allows you to search any music online stream it, You can set the player to save your streams while playback. Olivia lets you create and manage your music library.
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abcde – CD ripping software for the command line
abcde is a Bash script that grabs CDs and compresses it to a wide range of formats. Read Luke’s verdict of this open source script.
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Goodvibes – internet radio player
Goodvibes is billed as a lightweight internet radio player offering a simple way to access your favorite radio stations. Here’s my review of this open source radio player.
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Curseradio – curses interface for browsing and playing internet radio
Curseradio is a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.
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StreamTuner2 – internet radio station and video browser
Streamtuner2 is a GUI for browsing internet radio directories, music collections, and video services – grouped by genres or categories. It runs your preferred audio player or streamripper for recording.
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PyRadio – curses based internet radio player
PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. Here’s my assessment of this open source software.
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Radiotray-NG – rustic internet radio player
Radiotray-NG is a continuation of the discontinued Radio Tray. It seeks to embrace the same philosophy, fixing some of its flaws, and adding a few new features along the way.
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Tauon Music Box – Excellent desktop music player
Tauon Music Box (Tauon) is an open source music player based around disposable playlists and the assumption that folders are albums. Luke puts it through its paces and loves it tons!
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QMPlay2 – Qt based video and audio player
QMPlay2 can play most video formats and audio formats. It plays all codecs supported by FFmpeg, and supports YouTube videos too. With internet radio, Audio CD, and a lot more besides, there’s lots of functionality on offer. Here’s our review of the software.
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ncmpy – curses based Music Player Daemon client
ncmpy is a curses based Music Player Daemon client written in the Python programming language. Luke puts the software through its paces with a detailed review.
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Poddr – podcast client built with Electron and Angular
Poddr is an open source podcatcher made with Electron and AngularJS. It sports a very user-friendly interface that really is easy to navigate.
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ncmpc – Frugal Music Player Daemon client
MPD is a free and open music player server. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database. In order to interact with it, a client program is needed. ncmpc is billed as a fully featured MPD client with a tiny memory footprint. It runs in the terminal, provides an intuitive to use ncurses user interface and comes with a large set of useful features, including the ability to search and browse your music library, create playlists and read song lyrics.
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