musikcube

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musikcube is a fully functional terminal-based music player, library manager, and streaming audio server written in C++. It runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux and provides a TUI for browsing and playing your music library.The companion daemon musikcubed runs as a headless audio server that can stream music to remote musikcube clients. The library automatically indexes and organizes music files with metadata.The interface is keyboard-driven. Press ESC to enter command mode, Ctrl+D to quit, and Alt+Enter to open context menus. Keyboard shortcuts can be customized by editing ~/.musikcube/hotkeys.json.

Requires audio output support on the system. Library indexing may take time for large collections. The application is primarily interactive and does not accept traditional command-line arguments.

musikcube was created by clangen as an open-source, cross-platform terminal music player.

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