itzender5820/mousiki
Highly customizable TUI music player designed to be fast and lightweight
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Mousiki 🎵 [](https://www.gitbap.com/r/itzender5820/mousiki) Mousiki is a terminal music player built from the ground up for people who prefer control, simplicity, and a keyboard. It's a fast, focused TUI (Terminal User Interface) without unnecessary interface layers — fully keyboard-driven and configurable, wit h spectrum visualizers, synced lyrics, and online streaming, all without leaving your terminal. Personal preference is not a compromise—it's the design goal. FOR WIN32 CLICK HERE Configurable in $HOME/.config/mousiki/config.txt. Mousiki relies on a few external tools for audio fetching, decoding, and lyrics. The easiest way to get started is by running the setup script on macOS (requires Homebrew), Debian-based Linux, or Termux: If you're building manually, ensure you have cmake, a C++17 compiler, ffmpeg, yt-dlp (or let setup.sh fetch its standalone binary for you), and libcurl development headers (e.g. libcurl4-openssl-dev on…
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- ✨ Features
- 🚀 Supported Platforms
- 🛠️ Getting Started
- Default Keybindings
- Search & Playback
- Navigation & Queue
- Prerequisites & Installation
- Running the App
- ⚙️ Configuration
- Adding Custom Music Paths
- 🙏 Attribution & Dependencies
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What this repository does
Highly customizable TUI music player designed to be fast and lightweight
Repository facts
- Owner
- itzender5820
- Primary language
- C++
- Stars
- 166
- Forks
- 10
- Open issues + pull requests
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-08T10:41:59.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-13T08:01:43.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cli, cpp17, indic-languages, latin, music-player, music-streaming, ncursis-free, online-music, soft-dependency, tui-app
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