Listen to music in the cloud right from your Linux Terminal

Tizonia is a powerful cloud music player for the Linux terminal, with support for Spotify (Premium), Google Play Music (free and paid), SoundCloud, YouTube, TuneIn and iHeart radios, Plex servers and Chromecast devices. The world’s first implementation of OpenMAX IL 1.2. Tizonia is free software written in C/C++.

Installation

Tizonia is available in the repository of most Linux distros as well as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Arch Linux and others, and it is also possible to install via snap and Docker

If your system is Debian or Ubuntu, just run this command using the curl command:

curl -kL https://goo.gl/Vu8qGR | bash

Using via Docker

This step assumes that you already have Docker installed, if you don’t, watch this video: Definitive Docker Tutorial for BEGINNERS

Tizonia connects as a client directly to the PulseAudio host server and uses its configuration / devices to output the sound. This is possible by mapping the UNIX socket used by PulseAudio on the host in the container and configuring its use.

Save this script to a file named docker-tizonia

#!/bin/bash
USER_ID=$(id -u);
GROUP_ID=$(id -g);
if uname -s | grep -iq "Darwin" ; then
  pulse_server=docker.for.mac.localhost
  runtime_dir="$HOME"
else
  pulse_server=unix:"${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/pulse/native"
  runtime_dir="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/pulse"
fi
docker run -it --rm \
    -e PULSE_SERVER="$pulse_server" \
    --volume="$runtime_dir":"$runtime_dir" \
    --volume="${HOME}/.config/tizonia":/home/tizonia/.config/tizonia \
    --volume="${HOME}/.config/pulse/cookie":/home/tizonia/.config/pulse/cookie \
    --volume="${HOME}/.cache":/home/tizonia/.cache \
    --name tizonia \
    tizonia/docker-tizonia "$@";

Give permission and install:

chmod +x docker-tizonia
sudo install docker-tizonia /usr/local/bin

Example of use:

docker-tizonia --youtube-audio-mix-search "Queen Official"

There will be a file in $HOME/.config/tizonia, if not, create it and give write permissions to it: chmod a+wrx $HOME/.config/tizonia

Overview

Google Play Music

tizonia --help googlemusic

Youtube

tizonia --help youtube

Conclusion

If you like the command line and enjoy listening to music online, you will probably fall in love with Tizonia’s simplicity and cleanliness. With the ability to stream music and play local content, this open source software is one of my favorites, although the gapless feature currently does not work with Spotify.

One of the many advantages of command line software is that they are generally more economical with system resources. When playing audio stored locally, Tizonia consumes only 18 MB of RAM. Spotify streaming consumed 34 MB of RAM, while streaming with the official GUI client weighed 612 MB! Tizonia links

Official address: tizonia.org
Support: Documentation, GitHub, Gitter
Developer: Juan A. Rubio
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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