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kew

A terminal music player for Linux.

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  • Linux
  • Homebrew
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Lossless Audio
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Terminal-based
  7.   Support for MPRIS
  8.  Gapless Playback
  9.  Create Playlist
  10.  Tui
  11.  AAC
  12.  Built-in search engine
  13.  Opus codec support
  14.  OGG

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  •  107 Forks
  •  1 Open Issues
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What is kew?

kew (/kju:/) is a terminal music player for Linux.

Features:

  • Search a music library with partial titles.
  • Creates a playlist based on a matched directory.
  • Control the player with previous, next and pause.
  • Edit the playlist by adding and removing songs.
  • Supports gapless playback (between files of the same format and type).
  • Supports MP3, FLAC, MPEG-4 (AAC, M4A), OPUS, OGG and WAV audio.
  • Supports desktop events through MPRIS.
  • Private, no data is collected by kew.