Linux users have access to a lot of media players, including a few running in a terminal

Nov 25, 2013 09:54 GMT  ·  By

There's been a lot of talk about the demise of the iconic Winamp media player on the Windows platform, but Linux users have nothing to fear. Even if all the music players go unmaintained, there's still the terminal.

Most of the things you can do with a GUI, are also doable in a terminal. The same is true for music players. You don't need a fancy GUI to play music, especially when you have an all-powerful terminal at your fingertips.

A good example for this kind of terminal-based media player is the “C* Music Player.” You can install it from the Ubuntu repository, if you are running an Ubuntu OS, or you can compile it from source. This is rather easy because it has very few dependencies.

“C* Music Player” supports a large number or formats, you can organize playlists, the response time of the terminal is almost perfect, and you can still access the shell while listening to music.

You can download the C* Music Player from Softpedia.