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24 alternatives to I made a cross-platform command-line music player called maestro
It is built to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and was tested thoroughly on my Mac and lightly on my friend's Windows. Unfortunately, no one I know uses Linux. It works with WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a cross-platform command-line music player called maestro launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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Musikcube▲107A fully functional terminal-based music player
2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →
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Audio player for musicians and DJs
May 2026 · advanced-research.net · its alternatives →
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I have a large collection of music files gathered over the years, so I was sorely missing a decent offline music player that can serve as a frontend for the collection. I tried several Mac apps over the years, but since streaming music is mainstream now, there aren't good offline music players that meet my needs. So I spent the last 3 months building Petrichor! The idea is to solve my problem and learn Swift UI development along the way, while giving back to the community with this open-source project! Here's a list of features it has, with more getting added in future; - Everything you'd…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://www.beatsync.gg/ The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I created kew, a music player for the Linux terminal. This started when I asked myself: what if I could just type something like "play nirvana" in the terminal and have the rest taken care of automatically? That got the ball rolling and I kept adding stuff: covers in ascii and then as sixel images, a playlist view, a visualizer, a library view and finally search. While kew can be used as a commandline tool, it has evolved into a TUI app. Here are some example commands: kew nirvana # Plays all of your Nirvana songs, shuffled kew nevermind # Plays the "Nevermind" album in order kew…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · rdubigny.github.io · its alternatives →
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Music player server with a web-based user interface. - andrewrk/groovebasin
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀. Contribute to Rigellute/spotify-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easy to use, portable app to play midi music files on all flavours of Microsoft Windows. Brief Background - Used midi playback way back in the days of Windows 95 for some fun and entertaining apps, but as Windows progressed, it seemed their midi support (for Win32 anyway) regressed in both startup speed and reliability. Midi playback used to be near instant on Windows 95, but on later versions of Windows this was delayed to about 5-7 seconds. And reliability became somewhat patchy. This made working with midi a real headache. Cynthia was built to test and enjoy midi music once again. It's…
Nov 2025 · blaizenterprises.com · its alternatives →
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The music player and explorer for Emacs. Contribute to mihaiolteanu/vuiet development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A music player and jukebox app for macOS. Contribute to FulltimeFeline/Sol development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cmd.fm UI▲116Music visualized and controlled via a command line interface
2015 · cmd.fm · its alternatives →
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2018 · catnapgames.com · its alternatives →
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Adds track change notifications and media key support to cmus. - PhilipTrauner/cmus-osx
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An ncurses-based cross-platform CLI tool to play music
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rmusic▲7Play local & online music on desktop with Vue.js & Rust
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Capo▲85A new way to analyze and learn to play music
2014 · supermegaultragroovy.com · its alternatives →
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A little weekend project, made so I can pause/play/rewind directly on the piano, when learning a song by ear.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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