# clangen/musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

Repository: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/musikcube
Homepage: https://musikcube.com
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: audio-player, audio-engine, music-player, terminal, curses, coreaudio, cross-platform, wasapi, pulseaudio, directsound, alsa, music-library, music-player-client
Last push: 2026-03-23T02:00:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 73, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4186, "days_push": 164, "days_rel": 346, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4828, forks 320 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:00.590147+00:00)

## What it is
musikcube is a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and streaming server written in C++. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi, and can be remote-controlled and streamed from via the musikdroid Android app.

## Use cases
- play music from the terminal
- run a self-hosted streaming audio server
- index and manage a music library with metadata
- turn a raspberry pi into a home stereo player
- remote control a music server from android
- transcode audio on the fly for streaming clients

## When to choose
- you want a fast keyboard-driven music player in the terminal
- you need a lightweight headless audio server for a Pi or home stereo
- you want cross-platform playback with ALSA, PulseAudio, CoreAudio, WASAPI, or DirectSound backends

## When to avoid
- you need a graphical album-art-rich music player
- you want a web-based UI rather than a curses terminal interface

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: audio-processing, http-server, websocket, cli, gui
- domain: media, cross-platform, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli, embedded
- tags: terminal-ui, music-player, audio-engine, metadata-indexer, streaming-server, curses, raspberry-pi, remote-control, audio, command-line, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- clangen/musikcube (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:00.590147+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:18:30.362956+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:00.590147+00:00, sha a1dd70b8737a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.