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I'm looking for a decent open-source command-line CD player for Linux preferably available in the Debian repos. I've tried the following options:

  • mpv, but it can't select tracks
  • mplayer, but it buffers every few seconds
  • Audacious, but it crashes when I try to play a CD and it has a GUI
  • VLC, which actually works (except for a buffering bug), but it has a GUI (and apparently also a ncurses interface)
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  • VLC comes with cvlc the command line interface.
    – glenn jackman
    May 10 '18 at 15:07
  • @glennjackman: But with cvlc I can't control anything, unlike with rvlc or nvlc, which I hadn't heard of until I looked up cvlc, could you post that as an answer?
    – wb9688
    May 10 '18 at 15:15
  • why don't just rip the CD into mp3, aac or whatever? It'll be more efficient and easier to play
    – phuclv
    May 10 '18 at 17:36
  • Not tried myself, but there's e.g. cdcd (package cdcd) and cdtool (package name cdtool). Both sound like worth a look.
    – Izzy ♦
    May 10 '18 at 18:37
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cdtool text-based audio CD player can be installed from the default repositories in all currently supported versions of Debian.

cdtool – text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
cdtool contains cdplay, cdeject, cdstop, cdpause, and several other
programs for playing audio CDs and controlling a CD-ROM drive from
the command line and in a quick and scriptable way.

cdown reads track info and queries a CDDB database for info on
the current CD. cdctrl is a command line utility for controlling a
CD-ROM drive interactively and from scripts. cdir keeps track of the
contents of different CDs using a workman-compatible database.
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