Hum – ad-free terminal music player (Rust, no API keys)
Terminal music player bypassing YouTube ads using yt-dlp and mpv.

126KB C binary for YouTube music when yt-dlp already exists.
Terminal users and keyboard-driven workflow enthusiasts
cmus · yt-dlp · spotify-tui
i spend most of the day in a terminal or tiling wm and every music app felt like too much stuff on screen
so i made a music player in C that stays out of the way.
you can search youtube stream tracks download mp3s manage playlists and keep everything inside the shell
there is also ShellBeatsNG for the lazy people who want the same idea with a terminal style gui on windows and macos so same vibe but less typing
another thing that became more useful than i expected is sync you can sync playlists and music stuff across multiple pcs with surisync and it plugs into the surikata.app community so playlists can move between machines and also be shared around there
was not trying to make some giant platform just wanted something fast small keyboard friendly and not annoying
repo https://github.com/lalo-space/shellbeats
would love feedback from people who live in the terminal and also from the ones who secretly want buttons lol
On GitHub you can find more tech details!
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