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A terminal music player in one Rust binary: gapless playback, ReplayGain, internet radio, fuzzy search and cover art, with no daemon, no account and no telemetry.
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Music
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 99 launches in desktop music players →
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal music player is a well-bounded project, and Rust has mature audio decoding, playback, and tag/cover libraries that an AI-assisted builder can assemble into a single binary.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- transit · github · 2026-10-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- terminal-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 2226 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- MIDIpad · ph · 2026-09-25 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Velo · hn · 2026-02-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Terminal Phone · hn · 2026-02-26 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Mello · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- chirp · github · 2026-10-21 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Velo 2.0 · ph · 2026-05-05 · 580 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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