If MPlayer is not already installed, you can probably find it packaged for your distribution.
MPlayer is a versatile multimedia player that will support just about any media format you throw at it. I originally profiled these tools as a part of my 24 Days of Linux Toys series on a user there suggested that you might choose mpv as a suitable mplayer replacement, but I'll leave that up to the reader to explore and decide. Today we're going to look at three tools for enjoying sound and video at your Linux terminal: youtube-dl, mplayer, and cava. Some of these tools work better than others, of course, but a lot of them are worth poking around to see if they work for you. If you poke around GitHub for long enough, you can find a command line utility to replace the graphical front end of just about every service out there, at least those with an accessible API. We all have a tool that we begrudge having to leave the command line to use, whether it's for a web browser or a desktop GUI application. As a system administrator, you probably spend a lot of time at your terminal.
