# Install mp3blaster with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix, chocolatey, scoop, winget

Text-based mp3 player. Version 3.2.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-01. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mp3blaster.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mp3blaster
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mp3blaster
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install mp3blaster
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: audio/mp3blaster/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mp3blaster
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mp3blaster from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mp3blaster
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mp3blaster/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install mp3tag
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: mp3tag from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','mono'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/mp3tag
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mp3tag.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id FlorianHeidenreich.Mp3tag -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: FlorianHeidenreich.Mp3tag from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mp3blaster
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.2.6
- **Source summary:** Text-based mp3 player
- **Homepage:** <https://mp3blaster.sourceforge.io>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-01T12:37:12-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mp3blaster (alias)
- mp3tag (alias)
- nmixer (alias)
- splay (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.2.6
## Project history and usage

MP3Blaster is an interactive text-console audio player whose defining feature is a filesystem-like playlist hierarchy. Songs can be grouped into albums or categories, allowing album-level ordering and shuffling as well as ordinary song shuffling.

### Project history

The project began during the early Linux MP3 era. Its project history traces the author's motivation to an MP3 collection started in 1997 and records a first usable release, then called mp3player, in August 1997.

The 3.0 line redesigned the interface and added Ogg Vorbis support before the first stable 3.0 release in September 2001. The 3.2 series broadened audio-output and platform support, while the 2017 release incorporated compilation fixes from Debian packaging work.

### Adoption history

The official README names FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD as supported systems, and the change log records portability work for macOS, Cygwin, and newer compilers. The supplied package metadata shows continued distribution through several Unix-oriented package managers.

### How it is used

Users run MP3Blaster in a terminal, browse files, build hierarchical playlists, stream audio over HTTP, and customize colours and keybindings in `~/.mp3blasterrc`. Command-line options can start playback immediately, select play modes, or replace the default configuration file.

### Why package nerds care

MP3Blaster preserves the late-1990s console-multimedia tradition: a capable interactive player built for systems without a graphical desktop. Its long packaging life also shows how port and distribution maintainers can keep a mature ncurses-era application compiling after upstream development slows.

### Timeline

- 1997: The first usable release appeared under the name mp3player.
- 2001: MP3Blaster 3.0 added Ogg Vorbis support and reached a stable release.
- 2006: Version 3.2.2 added SDL and Esound output and portability fixes.
- 2017: Version 3.2.6 incorporated Debian-maintainer compilation fixes.

### Related projects

- The source tree includes the splay MPEG decoder, nmixer, and mp3tag utilities; Ogg Vorbis and several Unix audio systems broadened playback beyond the original MP3 and OSS focus.

### Sources

- <http://www.mp3blaster.org/p/history.html>
- <https://github.com/stragulus/mp3blaster>
- <https://github.com/stragulus/mp3blaster/blob/master/mp3blaster.1>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stragulus/mp3blaster/master/ChangeLog>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stragulus/mp3blaster/master/README>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.mp3blasterrc
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - mp3blaster - 1:3.2.6-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mp3blaster from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player | http://mp3blaster.sf.net
- Nix - mp3blaster: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mp/mp3blaster/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mp3blaster - 1:3.2.6-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mp3blaster from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player | http://mp3blaster.sf.net
- MacPorts - mp3blaster: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: audio/mp3blaster/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - splay - 0.9.5.2-14build1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: splay from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3
- Chocolatey - mp3tag: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: mp3tag from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','mono'
- Scoop - extras/mp3tag: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mp3tag.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - FlorianHeidenreich.Mp3tag: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: FlorianHeidenreich.Mp3tag from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mp3blaster.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mp3blaster.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph