Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Homebrew

mpg321 is described as 'Very popular command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder (primarily for use with CD-recording software.)' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mpg321 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Xfce apps. The best mpg321 alternative is kew, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mpg321 are C* Music Player, ncmpcpp, MOC and rmpc.

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.
Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.


Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.




MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

Rmpc is a beautiful, modern and configurable terminal based Music Player Daemon client. It is heavily inspired by ncmpcpp and ranger/lf file managers.



Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

mpg123 is a free software cross-platform command-line MPEG audio player whose library, libmpg123, is noted for its speed at decompressing MPEG audio files. As the name suggests, it supports MPEG-1 and -2, layers 1, 2, and 3. Its most common use is to play MP3 files.


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