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5 CLI Tools That Changed How I Work
I spend a good amount of my day inside the terminal. Over time, I have found a few CLI tools that made small parts of my workflow much easier.
1. CLIAMP
I usually like having some music in the background while working, but I don’t really like spending time choosing what to play.
CLIAMP is basically a music player that runs inside your terminal. It supports multiple sources including Spotify, YouTube Music, local music and online radio stations.
Spotify playback requires a Premium account, but I personally don’t use Spotify much with it. Most of the time I just use the radio feature.
CLIAMP has thousands of online radio stations, so when I want to focus I can search for something like focus, pick one of the stations and leave it running.
No opening Spotify. No looking through playlists. No spending five minutes deciding what song I want to hear.
Just open the terminal, start a radio and continue working.
It also has things like an equalizer, visualizers, lyrics and playlist support, but…
