Deezer TUI

July 26, 2026 · View on GitHub

Bored to use 300M of RAM to play music ?

For developers ❤️
Easy account login
Low memory footprint
Play music in the background
Compliant with Deezer features

Install

Linux / macOS (one-liner)

curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tatayoyoh/deezer-tui/main/install.sh | sh

Or copy binary yourself

wget -qO deezer-tui "https://github.com/Tatayoyoh/deezer-tui/releases/latest/download/deezer-tui-linux-x86_64"
chmod +x deezer-tui
sudo mv deezer-tui /usr/local/bin/deezer-tui

✅ Login through deezer.com
✅ Background player with ctrl+z
✅ Deezer Flow f
✅ Search / favorites / radios pages
✅ Playing track context menu ctrl+space
✅ Focused element context menu x
✅ Album page a
✅ Artist page t
✅ Waiting list w
✅ Shortcut menu ?
✅ Global app menu ctrl+o
✅ Themes, from official Deezer themes
✅ Audio quality selection (MP3 64/128/320, FLAC)
✅ Translations
✅ Offline mode with downloaded tracks
✅ Album/Artist miniature (require Kitty or Ghostty for real image display)
✅ Auto update
✅ MPRIS support for Linux desktops environments : play/next track/previous track

In action

Simple search

Theme selection themes

Build on your system

First install

sudo apt install pkg-config
sudo apt install libasound2-dev
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
source ~/.bashrc

Build

cargo build --release

Made with our brave Claude Code

And drived by human goods ideas.

To be honest, I am not a Rust developer :p. Rust was a good match for this project 👍.

Caveman is used to compress CLAUDE.md prompt, saving some session tokens.

Other goods projects

Deezer players

https://github.com/aunetx/deezer-linux - Deezer desktop app packaged into a webview
https://github.com/yne/dzr - Deezer music from command line
https://github.com/Minuga-RC/deezer-tui - another good TUI for Deezer
https://gitlab.com/ColinDuquesnoy/MellowPlayer - Deezer desktop app packaged into a webview

Terminal audio players