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Ember

🎵 A lightweight Python terminal media player with library management, streaming, and a clean TUI.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes A terminal music player and library manager can easily be vibe-coded using Python libraries like Textual/Curses for the TUI and python-vlc or pygame/miniaudio for playback and streaming.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2882 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2505 of 2883 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Otty · hn · 2026-06-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • WebTerm · hn · 2026-01-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • OmniPTY · hn · 2026-10-18 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Vynody · hn · 2026-10-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • tubefast · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • fm · github · 2026-10-04 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • resonate · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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