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tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il

Command-line cloud music player for Linux with support for Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Plex servers and Chromecast devices. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il · homepage · C · LGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4993
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 17
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1733 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tizonia is a command-line cloud music player for Linux that streams from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Google Play Music, Plex servers, and Chromecast devices. It is also the first open-source implementation of the OpenMAX IL 1.2 multimedia framework, requiring no ffmpeg, gstreamer, or libvlc.

Use cases

  • play Spotify playlists from the Linux terminal
  • stream YouTube audio without a browser
  • listen to SoundCloud or TuneIn radio in the command line
  • cast music to a Chromecast device from the terminal
  • play music from a Plex server via CLI
  • serve local MP3 files over a SHOUTcast/Icecast LAN stream
  • control playback remotely via MPRISv2
  • play local MP3, FLAC, OGG, and OPUS files

When to choose

  • you want to stream cloud music services from a Linux terminal without a GUI
  • you need a lightweight player that avoids ffmpeg/gstreamer dependencies
  • you want to cast audio to Chromecast from the command line
  • you need an open-source OpenMAX IL 1.2 implementation for multimedia development

When to avoid

  • you need a graphical music player
  • you are on macOS or Windows (Linux only; macOS support is on the roadmap)
  • you need a free Spotify account (Spotify requires Premium)
  • you need a mature, actively maintained release cycle (project is in revival with stale docs)

Facets

application · maturity active

audio-processing cli gui media developer-tools cli music-player openmax-il spotify youtube soundcloud chromecast plex streaming terminal-ui multimedia-framework audio command-line linux

8 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
tizonia/tizonia-openmax-ilmain67

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il")

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