musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in c++.

musikcube compiles and runs easily on windows, macos and linux. it also runs well on a raspberry pi with raspbian, and can be setup as a streaming audio server.

check out the installation guide to get up and running.

be sure to also read through a the user guide, which describes app’s navigation paradigm and lists all the default keyboard shortcuts.

if you want to build it from source, the instructions are here.

screenshots

it looks something like this on windows:

and this on macos:

and on linux:

here’s a demo (made with asciinema):

while the main musikcube app runs in the console, you can also stream audio from (and even remote control) musikcube using the musikdroid android app, which can be downloaded in the releases section above. it looks like this:

installation

binaries are available in the releases page.

while macos binaries are provided, you can also install via homebrew as follows:

• brew install musikcube

on freebsd musikcube can be installed as follows:

• pkg install musikcube

on openbsd musikcube can be installed as follows:

• pkg_add install musikcube

on windows, you can install via chocolatey:

• choco install musikcube

then run using shell, Win+R dialog or by typing in Start Menu musikcube or mcube.

raspberry pi

musikcube runs well on a raspberry pi, connected to your home stereo. see here for detailed setup instructions.

compiling

if you’d like to compile the project yourself, you can check out the build instructions.

keyboard shortcuts

a list of all keyboard shortcuts can be found in the user guide

streaming server

musikcube ships with a streaming audio server enabled by default. it runs a websocket server on port 7905, used for metadata retrieval. an http server runs on port 7906, and is used to serve (optionally transcoded) audio data to clients.

it’s important to understand that, out of the box, the server (and remote api) should NOT be considered safe for use outside of a local network. the websockets service only supports a simple password challenge, and the audio http server just handles Basic authorization. it does not provide ssl or tls. the server also stores the password in plain text in a settings file on the local machine.

you can fix some of this using a reverse proxy to provide ssl termination. details in the ssl-server-setup section. while this improves things, you should exercise caution exposing these services over the internet.

if you’re interested in writing your own frontend, api documentation is available here.

sdk

the musikcube sdk is a set of small, pure-virtual c++ classes and a handful of enums and constants. they’re still in the process of being slimmed down. you can see what they currently look like here: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/tree/master/src/musikcore/sdk

dependencies

musikcube would not be possible without the following excellent free, open source, and (in the case of some macos and win32 APIs) non-free projects and libraries:

core	decoders	outputs	metadata	networking	miscellaneous	ui
sqlite	ffmpeg	alsa	taglib	websocketpp	rxjava	ncurses
utfcpp	libopenmpt	pulseaudio	glide	libmicrohttpd	rxandroid	pdcurses (win32a variant)
nlohmann json	libgme	core audio		libcurl	stetho	recycler-fast-scroll
kissfft	exoplayer	wasapi		openssl	fabric
sigslot		directsound		nv-websocket-client	AndroidVideoCache
wcwidth.c		waveout		okhttp
		pipewire

license

Copyright (c) 2004-2023 musikcube team

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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 * Neither the name of the author nor the names of other contributors may
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