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A new (or perhaps old) way of enjoying music for the command-line enthusiasts. I’ve seen things… seen things that you people wouldn’t believe… Linux developed by governments, Linux on mobiles, and terminal audio players. Yes, it could be funny, but it’s real, you could play music from your command-line. And that’s just one of the many unusual things you can do in the terminal. Subscribe to It’s FOSS YouTube Channel Meet Kew When you use the terminal more often than the graphical tools, you would perhaps enjoy playing music from the terminal. I came across Kew, a terminal music player fully written in C. It’s small (not more than 1 MiB), with a low memory profile. You can create and play your own playlists! Kew music player running in the terminal First things go first: Installation It’s straightforward to install Kew because it’s available in the repositories of the common Linux Distributions like Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo., etc. For Debian and Ubuntu-based distros, use: sudo apt install kew You can use an AUR helper for Arch-based distros. Let’s you use yay: sudo yay -S kew For openSUSE, use zypper: sudo zypper install kew Exploring music with Kew One of the most interesting and surprising things it’s that kew can search in your music directory (usually ~/Music, or you could change it) only with one word: kew bruce And you’re immediately listening to the Boss!! You can see the album cover while you’re listening to it. You can make a playlist based on the content of a directory (and the others inside it recursively). The playlist can be edited/modified inside Kew in the Playlist view. You can play the songs from the playlist using: kew kew.m3u Direct Functions Kew provides some direct functions that you can type with kew: : You go straight to the music library. dir : Play a full directory. song : Play only a song. list : Play a playlist that you