Introducing TUISIC: TUI Music Streaming App.

Sumit Patel — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:32:50 +0000

Well, i don't have much to say but to show.

This is what TUISIC looks like, It is written in CPP and at initial release right now.

As a Linux enthusiast and someone who practically lives in the terminal, One day someone asked me how I play music in terminal. (thanks to that someone BTW, that question led the whole journey started!), the only thing I got was some scripts, that time I felt something was missing in my Arch Linux setup when it came to music. I was using MPD & ncmpcpp to play my downloaded songs, but constantly downloading music felt... outdated, and now i was thinking what if i can just stream music directly from the terminal instead of opening browser and typing spoti..., yeah that's painful.

So, TUISIC started its life as a collection of bash scripts. (one of the craziest thing i know )
And If you are curious to know how wild bash script can get, you can checkout this gist ;)

Dark-Kernel/Music.sh

This is what it looks like:

But then i'm an engineer and doing things in organize manner is what i am supposed to do. And one day i came to this repo FXTUI a fantastic C++ library for creating terminal user interfaces, so i started building tuisic.

Some Cool Features:

Stream music right from terminal (bye-bye browser!)
Easy to use (seriously, it's pretty intuitive)
Vim keybinds (because why not make it look cool?)

Want to try it?

If you're on Arch Linux (yeah, it's available on AUR now and that's a big deal! :)

yay -S tuisic-git

For other distributions, you can build from source:

Dark-Kernel / tuisic

A simple TUI online music stream app written in c++ with easy vim keybinds.

TUISIC

TUI Online Music Streaming application.

tuisic3.mp4

It let's you search and play online songs from cli hassle free.

Features

Vim motions
Easy downloads
Multiple song sources
Playlist support
Copy urls
Add to favourites

Sources

It fetches songs from some platforms:

SoundCloud
LastFM
ForestFM
YouTube ( Yet to be implemented )

Installation:

Using AUR package

yay -S tuisic-git

Building from source

Dependencies

sudo pacman -S curl mpv fmt yt-dlp

Build, Compile & Run

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Thanks to all.

Contribution

It's open for contribution, read CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

View on GitHub

What's Next?

This is just the initial release, and I have many features planned:

Custom Playlist support
Search history
Custom keybindings
Visualization like cava
Lyrics support etc.

Contributing

If you're interested in terminal applications, music, or just want to contribute to an open-source project, feel free to:

Star the repository
Report issues
Submit pull requests
Share your feature ideas

Let's make terminal music streaming better together! 🎵

TUISIC is free and open source software. Contributions and feedback are always welcome!

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