Streaming from the command line

Shashank Sharma won’t ever stop singing the praises of the command line, and applications like Musikcube, are the reason why.

Holidays are the time to get together with friends and family and share stories over some good food. It’s an undeniable fact that such get-togethers are even better when complimented with music – major brownie points if you’ve got a streaming system in place. But if you want geek creds, you’ve got to be able to do all that from the command line. Musikcube is a cross-platform music player. The native streaming ability sets Musikcube apart from other popular command-line music players such as Cmus. Although it isn’t available in the software repositories of many popular desktop distributions, the BSD-licensed project provides 64-bit binaries for the more-recent releases of Fedora and Ubuntu. Unlike most other command-line utilities, Musikcube does have quite a few dependencies, but thankfully most of these are…

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