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Blazing fast, terminal music player (TUI) written in Rust. Extensible via Lua plugins, built on Ratatui, MPV, and YT-DLP. Listen to YouTube, SoundCloud, and local files directly from your terminal. Lightweight, headless, ads-free.

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Rs-pug – A scriptable terminal music player written in Rust with Lua

by coldbrxthe·May 12, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemCozy

Neovim-style Lua scripting for a terminal music player is a clever twist.

Strengths
  • •Lua plugin system allows deep customization similar to Neovim workflows.
  • •Smart Queue feature automatically finds similar tracks based on current playback.
  • •Combines mpv reliability with yt-dlp streaming in a single TUI interface.
Weaknesses
  • •Requires external dependencies like mpv and yt-dlp to function at all.
  • •Another terminal music player in a space already occupied byncmpcpp and others.
Target Audience

Terminal power users and Rust developers

Similar To

ncmpcpp · cmus · spotify-tui

Post Description

I built rs-pug because I wanted a TUI music player that’s actually extensible. Most players are either hardcoded or too heavy, so I made this one scriptable via Lua, think Neovim, but for music. and it has a lot of other cool features

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