Deezer TUI
May 19, 2026 · View on GitHub
Bored to use 300M of RAM to play music ?
- for developers <3
- easy account login
- low memory footprint
- music playing 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
Features
✅ 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
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