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musikcube
C++2017–2022
clangen / musikcube

musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

9Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-07-26 05:52:47 UTC to 2022-05-28 15:48:10 UTC.

012342017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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I use Musikcube a lot, it works great on macOS and Linux, and is snappy even on very cheap or old systems. It has very good mouse support (if your terminal emulator supports it), it's the first time I saw a TUI app with a right click menu, or that you can scroll through. My one major complaint is that there is no way I know of to import/export playlists: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/issues/141 Another similar program I use when I am unable or unwilling to install musikcube for some reason is cmus: https://cmus.github.io/
In Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server
# How to compile from sources via Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit (missing from README.md) ## Install build dependencies sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev ncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libfaad-dev libmad0-dev libav-tools libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libmp3lame-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev; ## Building mkdir ~/Applications cd ~/Applications git clone https://github.com/clangen/musikcube.git cd musikcube cmake . make # Running ./bin/musikcube (edits: clarity)
In Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server
Clickables: - Permissively licensed: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/blob/master/LICENSE.txt - CMake: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/blob/master/CMakeLists.... - Lean n' mean plug-in system to support audio codecs and sound systems? Check, https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/plugins - CURSES (TUI) C++ abstraction layer: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/musikcu.... Based off https://github.com/clangen/cursespp. - Indexes (a la mpd?): https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/core/li... - Cross-platform audio abstraction interfaces? https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/core/au... This could stand a chance of uprooting the mpd + ncmpcpp combo that's been pretty standard for many terminal lovers. That's not even to mention this app also has an android client (https://r
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aw.githubusercontent.com/clangen/clangen-projects-s...), and something looks like it's being cooked up for windows, too: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/musikwi... Amazing skills. Just 2 main contributors: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/graphs/contributors. If the git history is pristine (information could have been lost/altered during a cross VCS import), the project was also around since at least 2008: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/b272bf6
In Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

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