All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection. We recommend the best terminal-based music players.
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Category: Multimedia
Dusk Player – Electron-based music player
Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player.
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pytubefix – library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos
pytubefix is a lightweight, Pythonic, dependency-free, library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
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YTerMusic – YouTube Music Client
YTerMusic is a terminal based YouTube Music Player. It aims to be as fast and simple as possible.
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YouTube TUI – lightweight and user friendly TUI for browsing YouTube
YouTube TUI is a lightweight and user friendly TUI frontend for browsing YouTube content from the terminal. It uses other software such as mpv and yt-dlp.
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ClipGrab – downloader for YouTube and other sites
ClipGrab is billed as a fast Qt-based standalone tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other streaming websites.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv
mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
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FreeTube – privacy-based YouTube app
FreeTube is a cross-platform, free and open source YouTube client built around using YouTube more privately.
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RMuP – TUI music player
Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Piped – frontend for YouTube
Piped is an alternative frontend for YouTube which aims to be efficient by design.
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Memento – mpv-based video player for studying Japanese
Memento is an mpv-based video player that makes studying Japanese easier with a built in popup dictionary, Anki integration, and more.
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Nora is billed as an elegant music player
Nora is billed as an elegant music player. It’s built using Electron and React. This is free and open source software.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Media Players
A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.
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Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp
Video Downloader is a tool which lets you download videos from YouTube and other websites.
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Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools
Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.
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