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A simple music player in your terminal

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Musicli – A simple lofi music player in the terminal

by bilater·Mar 14, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidCozyNiche Gem

Terminal lofi player with rain/cafe/fire layers and 150 free tracks included.

Strengths
  • •Ambience layering (rain, cafe, fire) mixes with music for custom focus environments
  • •Releasing 150+ Suno-generated lofi songs to public domain is a genuine contribution
  • •Native folder picker on macOS avoids path-typing friction
Weaknesses
  • •Terminal music players already exist (cmus, mpv) with more mature ecosystems
  • •Suno-generated music quality unverified compared to human-produced lofi
Target Audience

Developers who work in terminal and want focus music without leaving their workflow

Similar To

cmus · mpv · lofi-girl streams

Post Description

CLIs are all the rage these days so I built one for myself

This was really fun though. This is a 2 part release.

I wanted a no frills music player inside my terminal. Presenting Musicli (yes I'm proud of the name).

Once installed you can just run musicli from your terminal and play your music.

It's focused on lofi music but you can play anything. It has 2 modes: Local or Stream.

You can play music from a local folder or add your favorite YouTube channel and listen. You can layer in effects like rain, cafe or fire etc to personalize the vibe you're going for.

And speaking of local music...

The second part of this project is a release of an open-lofi dataset of over 150 lofi songs. These songs were all generated by me using Suno v5 and are owned by myself as a premium member. I'm now donating them to the public domain.

Go download them and enjoy on Musicli!

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