# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tizonia-openmax-il
Homepage: https://tizonia.org
Language: C
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: openmax-il, music-player, soundcloud, spotify, multimedia-framework, music-streaming-client, youtube, linux, terminal, google-play-music, chromecast, audio-streaming, plex-client
Last push: 2026-08-16T21:44:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4993, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1733, forks 89 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.930000+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: audio-processing, cli, gui
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: music-player, openmax-il, spotify, youtube, soundcloud, chromecast, plex, streaming, terminal-ui, multimedia-framework, audio, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.930000+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 2026-08-30T03:31:28.456185+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.930000+00:00, sha 2713028a6819)
  - homepage: https://tizonia.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.813590+00:00, sha b52a3277d230)
  - site_page: https://tizonia.org/docs/spotify (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.822916+00:00, sha a89365af84a0)
  - site_page: https://tizonia.org/docs/debian (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.826413+00:00, sha 13d04ca15538)
  - site_page: https://docs.tizonia.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.831127+00:00, sha 5591a517f0bd)
  - site_page: https://tizonia.org/docs/chat (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.834932+00:00, sha f8f1cb27aa73)
  - site_page: https://tizonia.org/docs/media (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.838081+00:00, sha 886c78f7c128)
  - site_page: https://tizonia.org/docs/development (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:19.840575+00:00, sha 40096997c5d8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.