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Very interested in this as I've tried every terminal music player under the sun. As others have mentioned, how does this differentiate itself from the main players .... mpd and cmus??

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mpd and cmus are both awesome. I found mpd cumbersome to setup, and couldn't find a frontend I liked. cmus was closer to hitting the sweet spot, but I didn't find a remote control (or streaming) solution that worked the way I wanted it to. I also wanted something super lightweight that I could use in Windows without needing to install something like WSL or Cygwin.

In a nutshell: musikcube probably has fewer features than these alternatives, but packages everything together with a clean, straight forward user interface.

Do you know if musikcube has any intention of supporting the mpd protocol? I don't think it should be terribly hard to support, the protocol itself is fairly simple and stable. It would allow musikcube to integrate into tons of applications that already support mpd integration - I've even written a few of my own for my needs, the various libraries make it very easy to do. That integration is the main reason why I'm hesitant to move away from mpd even though musikcube looks appealing.

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