I ended up writing my own, musicd, because I couldn’t find anything out there that was exactly what I was looking for.

musicd is a daemon, that runs in the background and plays a list of songs from a file (including picking up new songs as that file is edited.) You use your standard command line tools to queue the songs up: I have a handful of scripts which I use to select songs to add with fzf, and/or I use vim (with filename completion) to edit the playlist file.

(Also, musicd has various mechanisms for selecting a randomized list of songs to play, for when I don’t feel like queuing songs up myself.)

musicd was designed to meet my own idiosyncratic needs, but who knows—perhaps someone else will find it useful as well.

You can also checkout CMUS. Supports Vi based controls and interface.

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I use terminal-based programs, and other programs with non-mouse controls like emacs/vim (i.e. Spacemacs) for a lot of my workflow, but music is one of those things that I have not felt the need of to put in a terminal so far.

What are the reasons that you prefer a terminal music player over a graphical one?