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Kew, A distraction-free terminal music player, now on Windows

by ravachol·Jun 29, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●MidCozy

Terminal music player with sixel covers, but cmus and ncmpcpp already exist.

Strengths
  • •Word-based playlist generation from artist, album, or song names
  • •Full color album covers render in sixel-capable terminals
  • •2.8k stars shows sustained community adoption over time
Weaknesses
  • •Terminal music players are solved category with cmus, mpd, ncmpcpp
  • •Windows port is incremental, not novel functionality
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Terminal users, minimalists, local music collectors

Similar To

cmus · ncmpcpp · mpd

Post Description

Hi HN,

I have finally ported kew, a music player for the terminal, to Windows. We are everywhere now, watch out!

Some of kew's features:

- Play auto-generated playlists based on words from the artist, album or song name: 'kew nirvana'. - Private and offline* (*discord gets notified but this can be turned off). - Music without distractions or algorithmic manipulation. - Gapless playback. - Music library explorer. - Search - Full color covers in sixel-capable terminals.

kew 4.1 adds cross-fade (both on-demand and always on), auto-resume, more colorful spectrum visualizer modes and custom layouts.

More info here: https://github.com/ravachol/kew

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41740915

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