If it's just for music and you dig the look of TUI apps then musikcube has built-in server functionality. You install it on both the server and clients but keep the library on the server. It's light and works well, including for giant collections. There's apparently an android app too, musikdroid, but I haven't tried it. I haven't tried the windows or mac client apps either, so I can't vouch for any of them, but... Source: over 1 year ago

VLC can be used to play a file from the command line, but there is no user interface. Players like cmus and musikcube have a text based interface and library management. Source: over 1 year ago

I use musikcube - terminal based, cross platform, just plays tunes. https://musikcube.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Dont know about the rest but the top left music player looks like musikcube with a skin on it. https://musikcube.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use Musikcube. It has an Android app that can stream and function as a remote too. I tried a lot of the other commonly-recommended music streaming softwares here and what set this apart is how much easier getting Musikcube is to get running. Source: about 2 years ago

This conflicts with yewtube, which incidentally, you may be interested in. Source: over 1 year ago

If you're comfortable with a text based interface, there's also the yewtube program which runs from the terminal and is pretty neat. Source: over 1 year ago

I haven't tried these but they seem to do what you're looking for: Mps-youtube Ytfzf. Source: almost 2 years ago

For youtube there is this commandline tool. Though it seems this fork is not that active any more: https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube. Source: about 2 years ago

I'm using mps-yotube, https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube with cvlc and confused about controls, how to pause, how to skip, etc. Source: over 2 years ago