MusikCube
title: "MusikCube" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["free-software-programmed-in-c++", "linux-media-players", "windows-media-players", "free-media-players", "2004-software", "free-software-that-uses-ncurses", "software-using-the-bsd-license"] topic_path: "technology/operating-systems" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusikCube" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | musikcube |
| logo | Musikcube icon.png |
| screenshot | Musikcube screenshot.png |
| screenshot size | 250px |
| caption | musikcube screenshot |
| developer | Casey Langen |
| released | |
| latest release version | |
| latest release date | |
| latest preview version | |
| latest preview date | |
| programming language | C++ (nCurses) |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD |
| language | English, French, Deutsch |
| genre | Audio player |
| license | BSD-3-Clause |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = musikcube | logo = Musikcube icon.png | logo size = | screenshot = Musikcube screenshot.png | screenshot size = 250px | caption = musikcube screenshot | developer = Casey Langen | released = | latest release version = | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | programming language = C++ (nCurses) | operating system = Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD | language = English, French, Deutsch | genre = Audio player | license = BSD-3-Clause | website = musikcube is a free and open-source cross-platform, terminal-based audio player software and streaming server.
Features
musikcube is based on a modular plug-in architecture, and uses plug-ins written in C++. Plug-ins provide core functionality for audio decoding, data streaming, output device handling, metadata parsing, digital signal processing, and more. Plugins currently exist to provide support for many popular audio codecs, including MP3, M4A, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.
Internally, musikcube uses the SQLite database library for storing track and playlist metadata.
There is currently no support for Digital rights management.
musikcube is capable of streaming audio via an integrated server. An Android client also exists, allowing music to be streamed over local and wide-area networks.
Licensing
musikcube (and official plugins) are licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license.
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