headless-music 1.0.2

headless music: for minimal cpu/gpu usage while listening to music

headless_music

A Spotify-inspired, terminal-based music player. headless_music brings music to your terminal with full-color ASCII album art and an endless recommendation queue.

Features

• Spotify-inspired terminal UI with a modern 3-panel layout (built with rich).
• Color ASCII album art (when available from Spotify).
• Playlist-first playback for Spotify or YouTube playlists.
• Endless radio mode that queues recommendations after the playlist ends.
• Smooth, pulsing progress bar showing playback and loading status.
• First-run configuration wizard for easy setup.
• Cross-platform: runs on systems with Python and mpv.

Prerequisites

mpv is required as the audio backend.

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install mpv

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install mpv

Windows (Chocolatey)

choco install mpv

Installation

To install, simply use the Python package manager pip:

pip install headless_music

Usage

To start the player, type into your terminal

headless_music

On first launch a setup wizard will walk you through adding your Spotify API credentials. Obtain these from the Spotify Developer Dashboard: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/

Controls

Key	Action
Space	Play / Pause
n	Next track
p	Previous track
c	Re-run the configuration wizard (stops playback)
q	Quit

Configuration

• Spotify API credentials (Client ID, Client Secret, Redirect URI) are required for full functionality.
• The configuration wizard writes credentials to a user config file (see config in repo for format).
• mpv path and additional mpv options can be set in the config.

Contribution

Contributions are welcome. Please open issues for bugs or feature requests and submit pull requests against main. Follow the existing code style and include tests for new functionality.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.