MASCII Alternatives

MASCII is described as 'Is your music player cluttering your desktop with heavy interfaces and unnecessary distractions? Do you miss the days when computing was fast, focused, and purely text-driven?' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MASCII for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best MASCII alternative is AIMP, which is free. Other great apps like MASCII are Clementine, Rhythmbox, kew and C* Music Player.

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    ncmpc

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    ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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    fmedia

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    fmedia is a fast media player/recorder/converter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • FreeBSD
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    mpg321

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    mpg321 is a very popular command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder (primarily for use with CD-recording software.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    mpg123

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    mpg123 is a free software cross-platform command-line MPEG audio player whose library, libmpg123, is noted for its speed at decompressing MPEG audio files. As the name suggests, it supports MPEG-1 and -2, layers 1, 2, and 3. Its most common use is to play MP3 files.

    15 mpg123 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    Benben

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    Benben is a fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter for Linux and other Unix-like systems with an oldschool-inspired interface.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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