Back in 2007 I came to Athens as a first year Computer Engineer student, so I bought a PC with 1G RAM and an Intel Core Celeron CPU for 400 euros. Ten years later this PC is still alive, running on Lubuntu and I use it mainly to listen music, while I am doing chores in home or relaxing. Its name is dog, that is used metaphorically in Greece for people or things that endure in difficulties and time.
But browsers nowadays are hungry memory monsters that try to get all the available RAM from old PCs, so I was searching a way to hear plalists from my favourite site, preferably through CLI, I am going to share here.
Find the Youtube list URI
First download a CLI browser to start browsing the web
sudo apt install lynx
and visit Kasetophono; it is a cool site with playlists organized on day/mood/time/season of the year. Find your way to navigate in the site and find a list that fits in your mood and copy paste the URI.
Download the list
Download a tool that will enable you to download Youtube songs and playlists
sudo apt install youtube-dl
and run
youtube-dl <playlist URI>
You can also checkout the options the tool provides for audio format etc.
Play the list
You can play the list using a CLI audio player
sudo apt install cmus
Run cmus and press 5 to get in navigation menu. Select the audio file(s) you want and start enjoying.
No GUI used this far.
