Terminal on TerminalDrome

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.

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: