The latest articles on DEV Community by coldbrxthe (@coldbrxthe). https://dev.to/coldbrxthe https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3906701%2Ff2e53a78-eaa5-473a-a75b-fa61a699e574.png https://dev.to/coldbrxthe en coldbrxthe Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:39:03 +0000 https://dev.to/coldbrxthe/i-made-a-unique-tui-player-5dli https://dev.to/coldbrxthe/i-made-a-unique-tui-player-5dli <p>i made a very cool and unique terminal music player.</p> <p>its very lightweight 5-6 mb of ram usage and under 1% cpu<br> it has a lot of cool features like<br> lua plugin support<br> 10 band eq<br> music streaming<br> music from local files<br> playlists<br> a lot of themes<br> nvim keybinds<br> and a beautiful tui</p> <p>you can build it from source or download form aur if you use arch linux or any arch based distro.<br> </p> <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://assets.dev.to/assets/github-logo-5a155e1f9a670af7944dd5e12375bc76ed542ea80224905ecaf878b9157cdefc.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/JustRoccat" rel="noopener noreferrer"> JustRoccat </a> / <a href="https://github.com/JustRoccat/rs-pug" rel="noopener noreferrer"> rs-pug </a> </h2> <h3> terminal music player — mpv + yt-dlp + lua plugins </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h1 class="heading-element">rs-pug</h1> </div> <p>Neovim out of music players. Search, queue, listen — no browser, no ads, no nonsense.</p> <p><code>rs-pug</code> uses <code>mpv</code> + <code>yt-dlp</code> under the hood, with a terminal UI built on <code>ratatui</code>.</p> <p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5df19540321e54a59438d803005f2ec15a34722892dffb4ba307bd19786af2e8/68747470733a2f2f63646e2e646973636f72646170702e636f6d2f6174746163686d656e74732f313437333337373639383437383033313032312f313439323536343731373138333639363939312f696d6167652e706e673f65783d36396462636162372669733d363964613739333726686d3d3837626262643436336631383032663061323534373739663466343831306139656166393932303436386337376261336264613936346338353037383034323326"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5df19540321e54a59438d803005f2ec15a34722892dffb4ba307bd19786af2e8/68747470733a2f2f63646e2e646973636f72646170702e636f6d2f6174746163686d656e74732f313437333337373639383437383033313032312f313439323536343731373138333639363939312f696d6167652e706e673f65783d36396462636162372669733d363964613739333726686d3d3837626262643436336631383032663061323534373739663466343831306139656166393932303436386337376261336264613936346338353037383034323326" alt="img"></a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d33b110ea6b4b57e04666101d97fbbc1b4594bfb9cfdfc3967f5f349a2fcca03/68747470733a2f2f63646e2e646973636f72646170702e636f6d2f6174746163686d656e74732f313437333337373639383437383033313032312f313439343433363730383533343731343336382f696d6167652e706e673f65783d36396532396132342669733d363965313438613426686d3d3335323766313430396665626665663165653438343835613731623436316635306137363666356663373062653933663738323231613435663736343936626226"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d33b110ea6b4b57e04666101d97fbbc1b4594bfb9cfdfc3967f5f349a2fcca03/68747470733a2f2f63646e2e646973636f72646170702e636f6d2f6174746163686d656e74732f313437333337373639383437383033313032312f313439343433363730383533343731343336382f696d6167652e706e673f65783d36396532396132342669733d363965313438613426686d3d3335323766313430396665626665663165653438343835613731623436316635306137363666356663373062653933663738323231613435663736343936626226" alt="img"></a></p> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">Features</h2> </div> <ul> <li>YouTube search and queue playback in TUI</li> <li>Local files playback from a configurable directory</li> <li>Albums tab + playlist library</li> <li>10-band equalizer with presets (<code>Flat</code>, <code>Bass Boost</code>, <code>Vocal Boost</code>, <code>Treble Boost</code>, <code>Night</code>)</li> <li>Recently played history (saved to disk)</li> <li>Playlist import/export from context menu (<code>c</code>)</li> <li>Theme switching + basic keybind customization in Options</li> <li>Lua plugin system</li> </ul> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">Dependencies</h2> </div> <p>Required:</p> <ul> <li><code>mpv</code></li> <li><code>yt-dlp</code></li> </ul> <p>Optional:</p> <ul> <li> <code>mpv-mpris</code> (if you want <code>playerctl</code> / media key support)</li> </ul> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">Installation</h2> </div> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h3 class="heading-element">From AUR (Arch Linux)</h3> </div> <div class="highlight highlight-source-shell notranslate position-relative overflow-auto js-code-highlight"> <pre>yay -S rs-pug-git <span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> or</span> paru -S rs-pug-git</pre> </div> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h3 class="heading-element">Manually</h3> </div> <div class="highlight highlight-source-shell notranslate position-relative overflow-auto js-code-highlight"> <pre>git clone https://github.com/JustRoccat/rs-pug <span class="pl-c1">cd</span> rs-pug cargo build --release ./target/release/rs-pug</pre> </div> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h2 class="heading-element">Default keybinds</h2> </div> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Key</th> <th>Action</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><code>/</code></td> <td>Search</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>Enter</code></td> <td>Play / confirm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>Space</code></td> <td>Pause / resume</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>n</code></td> <td>Next</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>p</code></td> <td>Previous</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div>…</div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/JustRoccat/rs-pug" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> linux cli rust music