kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux
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…
kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux launched on October 4, 2024 with 152 votes, #308 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Kew is a terminal-based music player for Linux that lets users play music by typing simple commands like "play nirvana" or "nevermind" to trigger artist, album, or track playback. Built as both a command-line tool and text user interface application, it includes features like ASCII and sixel image album covers, a playlist view, visualizer, library browser, and search functionality. Written in C and licensed under GPLv2, kew works best with music libraries organized by artist and album folders.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Music for the Shell. kew is a fast, immersive music player that allows you to listen to music privately. - ravachol/kew
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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