ostui is a terminal client for OpenSubsonic music servers, inspired by ncmpcpp and musickube.

Features

• Browse by Artist
• Browse by genre
• Queue songs and albums
• Create and play playlists
• Search music library
• Mark favorites
• Volume control
• Persistent play queue (re-load after restart with l)
• Server-side scrobbling (e.g., on Navidrome, gonic)
• MPRIS2 https://mpris2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ control and metadata
• A toggle-able song info panel in the playlist containing song information, lyrics, and cover art
• Synced lyrics are shown, and synced with the music, if the server supports getLyricsBySongId; this is supported in both Navidrome and gonic, and possibly other OpenSubsonic servers
• The search tab can toggle between “search for anything” (via search3/ ), or search-by-genre (via getSongsByGenre/. As part of this, switching to the genre search in the search tab with ‘g’ also shows a list of all known genres, which can be browsed.

v1.0.5 -> v1.1.1 changes

• CLI params & config settions for some UI toggles (track & album columns, song info)
• Optional track & album display in the play queue list (‘T’, ‘A’)
• The playlist can be sorted by title, track number, or album

Getting it

There’s a releases link on the project page; I build assets for Linux and Darwin AMD and ARM64.

ostui is in AUR and Alpine testing (the current release may take a day or two to show up in Alpine).

ostui was hard-forked in 2024 from stmps, itself a hard fork of stmp.