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Biggest Update Terminaldrome_v.1.0.0 is there

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:38:57 +0200

It’s done. Version 1.0 was released today. The feature that was missing from 1.0 was “add to queue,” which allows you to create a current queue or playlist. I’ve now added that. I’m excited to introduce the latest version to you in this short post.

New in 1.0

⏭ A play queue — line tracks up while something is playing instead of replacing what is already there. q adds the highlighted song to the end of the queue, Shift+N puts it straight after the track that is playing, and Shift+U opens the queue to see what is lined up and drop tracks from it with d. Queueing with nothing playing simply starts that track.
🧭 Browsing and playing are two lists now — they used to be one, so searching or stepping back to browse an album while a song played could throw the now-playing line onto the wrong track. The queue is its own list, kept in step with mpv, and the now-playing line stays correct wherever you wander.
📌 The now-playing line survives browsing — going back to the artist or album list while a track plays no longer blanks it out.

The queue was the last item on the roadmap; with it, TerminalDrome is feature-complete.

A new release: Terminaldrome 0.9.7 is out

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:20:34 +0200

v0.9.7 — the lyrics follow the song

The lyrics view now follows the song. A track whose lyrics carry timestamps gets the line that is being sung marked and the view scrolling to keep it in sight, so the words can be read along with the music instead of hunted for.

New in 0.9.7

🎤 Lyrics that follow the song — press Shift+Y and the line being sung is marked, the lines already past are dimmed, and the view scrolls to keep up on its own. Read the words along with the music instead of hunting for them.
📝 Lyrics that admit when they have no timings — a track whose lyrics arrive without timestamps says ohne Zeitangaben in the title bar. They are shown exactly as before, but a still page was otherwise indistinguishable from a feature that is not working.
📜 LRC parsing — [mm:ss.xx] and [mm:ss:xx], several timestamps on one line, unsorted lines, and section markers such as [Chorus].
🔀 A source switch is a round trip — each of Navidrome and Bandcamp keeps the view it was left in, so going to the other server and back returns to the same artist, album or playlist at the same place in its list.

Two changes behind the first one are worth knowing about if you maintain a server: the timings live in structuredLyrics, which reaches clients through getLyricsBySongId, not in the plain getLyrics response. TerminalDrome asks for that endpoint first and falls back to getLyrics for servers without the OpenSubsonic extension, so nothing is required of you and no track loses lyrics it could be shown before.

New Release of TerminalDrome 0.9.6

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:15:31 +0200

Welcome to a brand new release of TerminalDrome, I hope you enjoy it.

Features

New in 0.9.6

🔊 The visualizer stops lying — without cava the bars were a canned demo animation, and nothing on screen said so, so it looked exactly like a visualiser reacting to the music. It now labels the bars while they are a demo and names the program that is missing. The label disappears as soon as real levels arrive, so a working setup shows nothing extra.
🌍 Install commands that match your system — the setup wizard and these instructions resolve the package manager from /etc/os-release instead of assuming Arch.

Changelog

The audio visualizer now says so when it is not actually reacting to the music.

Terminaldrome 0.9.5

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:35:54 +0200

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce the release of TerminalDrome 0.9.5 with some major changes to everything. Space acts now as pause and not as stop and the ASCII Covers now renders as a block so it should look better now.

A lot of bugfixes and minor improvements so 0.9.5 should be really stable, more about all the improvements here.

TerminalDrome now also features on AwesomeTUI.com, a curated List of beautiful TUI Terminal Programms like TerminalDrome is.

About

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:39:25 +0200

A lightweight, terminal-based music client (TUI) for the open-source music server Navidrome, and for any other server that speaks the Subsonic API — including Bandcamp.

Written in the Rust programming language and designed by developer Jan Montag. TerminalDrome is aimed specifically at terminal users and self-hosting enthusiasts who want to manage and play their own music libraries straight from the command line, without relying on resource-intensive web browsers or Electron applications.

New Release Terminaldrome 0.9.0

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:13:42 +0200

We are proud to announce the newest version of TerminalDrome 0.9.0 now with Playlist-Support directly in the TUI. You can add a song with Shift+A and then create a new Playlist with Shift+N or add it to an existing List.

You can install via

cargo install terminaldrome

or clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/thafaker/TerminalDrome.git

and then

cargo run

Here is a Beginners Guide for you to read. It contains everything from setting TerminalDrome up til trouble shooting.

Getting Started with TerminalDrome: A First-Time Users Guide

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:40:58 +0200

TerminalDrome 0.8.5 and later

TerminalDrome is a terminal-based music client for Navidrome (and other Subsonic-compatible servers) with optional Bandcamp support. It runs entirely in your terminal, plays audio through mpv, and shows album covers as ASCII art — no browser, no Electron, no fuss.

This guide walks you through everything from installing the prerequisites to playing your first album, in about ten minutes.

TerminalDrome 0.8.5 with great Features

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:28:06 +0200

Hej guy, TerminalDrome Version 0.8.5 ist out for downloading via github or to install via crates.io and rust, cargo install terminaldrome. I am happy to share this moment with you guys.

Best new thing: after Installation via cargo or compilation and start via

bash

terminaldrome

it will do an initial setup and will ask for your server and credentials, create and salt it with md5 and will nevermore store your credentials in plaintext on your computer.

TerminalDrome on Github

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:31:45 +0200

Hey guys, this is just a short post about my TerminalDrome project wich aims to play your navidrome files in a 80x25 Terminal on Linux, MacOS and everything with python and mpv. My initial goal as I started was to have a player in terminal on my old but still sexy Powermac G5 with Arch based PPC64 Linux. There were a few around but none compiled so I started to build my own one.

TerminalDrome 0.7.3 released

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We released TerminalDrome 0.7.X with new features. Likes and Audiovisuals.

What’s new in 0.7.3

❤️ Like songs — press Shift+L while a song is playing to mark it as a favorite in Navidrome.
The current song gets a permanent heart (❤️) next to its title in the song list.
Visual feedback in the status bar confirms when a song is liked.
The heart stays visible when switching views or restarting the app.
Keyboard shortcut: Shift+L (L for Like) – easy to remember, doesn’t conflict with Shift+H for help.
With Shift+E you can start the audiovisual mode (like cava) and with ESC you can close while song is playing.

Version 0.6.0 of TerminalDrome released

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A terminal-based music client for Navidrome (and other Subsonic-compatible servers), written in Rust.

Features

What’s new in 0.6.0

🔀 Shuffle Mode — press Shift+S while in any song list (album, playlist, or Jukebox queue) to instantly shuffle and restart playback. The currently playing song panel and progress bar turn magenta so you always know shuffle is active.

What was new in 0.5.x

🎉 Party / Jukebox Mode (Shift+J) — streams your entire library in random order. Songs are fetched from the server in batches in the background, so even a library with tens of thousands of tracks works without loading everything into memory at once.

The new Jukebox Mode plays my entire library

TerminalDrome Features

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m happy to announce that TerminalDrome has been officially added to the crates.io repository. This means you can now install and use TerminalDrome on your system with a simple

cargo install terminaldrome

command. I’ve also added the ability to use playlists in TerminalDrome, which wasn’t available before. You can use the TAB key to switch the left pane to the playlists. In the middle, you’ll see information about the playlist, and on the right, the songs it contains. Otherwise, there were many bug fixes: one was a buffer overflow at the end of a song, which caused the runtime to be recalculated and resulted in a crash. Another was a large number of warnings, which I’ve resolved.

New Version of TerminalDrome

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After nine long months of laziness and overindulgence, I finally sat down again to work on my beautiful terminal client for Navidrome, TerminalDrome, and implemented a few bug fixes. I also made sure it continues to run everywhere and improved the code quality a bit.

I am proud to announce TerminalDrome 0.2.3 for your pleasure.

What has changed in Version 0.2.3?

0.2.3 – Stability & Cross-Architecture Improvements, not visibile.

Fixed

Fixed duplicate selection decrement in navigation logic (on_up)
Fixed potential division-by-zero in progress bar calculation
Hardened time position handling against invalid/NaN values
Improved atomic memory ordering for weak memory architectures (ARM, PPC64)
Prevented uncontrolled async task spawning during album rendering
Improved mpv IPC reconnect handling
Improved temporary directory handling for macOS and Linux

Improved

Switched to single-thread Tokio runtime for better determinism
Reduced async task churn in render path
Improved cross-platform stability (Linux PPC64, Linux x86_64, macOS Intel, macOS ARM)
Better behavior on weak memory-order CPUs
Reduced CPU load during cover rendering

Platform Stability

Tested on:

New Release of TerminalDrome on Github

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Since I recently discovered how relaxing programming can be, I’ve been tinkering with my Navidrome-compatible terminal client called TerminalDrome almost every day.

I’ve now integrated a new feature, which I’ve moved to Main:

A simple search function:

Press slash / and the search will open.
Enter the search term, press Enter, and you’ll see the search results in the right panel.
It’s neither alphabetically sorted nor otherwise organized.
Additionally, there’s a feature in the leftmost panel where you can jump directly to the beginning of the respective artist by pressing a letter of your choice. So if I press D, I’ll land on D.A.F., or Q on Queens Of The Stone Age—you get it?

My TerminalDrome CLient in Search Mode

TerminalDrome 0.2.0 is available

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am proud to announce the release of TerminalDrome 0.2.0 as a feature-rich stable version to the public. It is still alpha but it works on a daily basis here on my Powermac G5 or the Mac Mini M4.

TerminalDrome Splash Screen

There are compiled binaries available for arm64, ppc64 and armhf. But TerminalDrome will build on every Linux with Rust and Cargo.

Status

Absolute pre-alpha!!!
Scrobbling to last.fm and listen.brainz works via Navidrome
Track updates while playing. Once a song finishes, it automatically switches to the next one and updates the display accordingly.
A basic full-text search is implemented: press the slash / key to open the search window, enter a term, and the results will appear in the third pane.
Basic Help Screen via Shift+H Button.
Splash Start Screen :-)
Nice Status Bar at the bottom

TerminalDrome is playing a song on my Powermac G5

TerminalDrome is evolving

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My little Terminal Navidrome Project TerminalDrome is evolving and works a little bit better from day to day. So, what is working?

safes the state of the panes to come back later
in pane 4 it shows the elapsed time and a small bar is going to 100%
it plays the songs of an album from 1 to last

What does not work:

it won’t changes the now playing bar when a new song is playing

This is a screenshot of my real Powermac G5 running TerminalDrome in the wild.

TermNavi is renamed in TerminalDrome

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Because there’s already a Terminal Navidrome client called NaviTerm, and I don’t really like my name TermNavi, I decided to rename my software TerminalDrome. Of course, that sounds completely stupid, but at least it’s better than a copy.

I think my software will soon become famous.

Oh, and it doesn’t even work properly yet. :-)

Ressources

TerminalDrome Github Repo

TermNavi Terminal Navidrome Client ppc64

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So the other day I tried to connect to my Navidrome MP3 Streaming Server, I call it “Spotify at Home”, via Webinterface to listen to some music, but there were no way to do this. The Webbrowsers available are too old. Sad.

So I decided to programm a really small Navidrome Terminal Client called TermNavi (yes I know… need better name) to listen to my MP3. And what shall I say? The first implementation is ready. I tested and successfully compiled on aarch64 (my MacMini M4) and the legendary Powermac G5 with ARCH Linux or Debian Sid ppc64.

New Version 0.2.2 of TerminalDrome

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I just finished the work on TerminalDrome 0.2.2 and I am really proud of it, because I don’t know nothing about Rust programming language but the Terminal NaviDrome Client is running very well :-)

TerminalDrome started, Cover Art, no artist or album chosen

Whats is new?

Implemented cover art: terminaldrome is downloading the cover art of the album if available and convert it to ASCII :-)
Album Scrolling: while in album pane, there were no scrolling implemented and when there were more than 5 albums, you would not see them.
fixed mute button
updated splash screen :-)
a lot of other improvements and fixes

What else?

Tested on: