Siren is a text-based audio player for Unix-like operating systems. It supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WavPack, WAVE, AIFF, and a few other file formats. Playback is possible through sndio, PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, Sun audio, and libao.
| Tags | Audio Player Audio music Text based |
|---|---|
| Licenses | ISC |
| Operating Systems | POSIX OpenBSD NetBSD Linux FreeBSD |
| Implementation | C curses ncurses |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds the ALSA output plug-in, adds the update-metadata command, fixes a buffer overflow in the format-string parser, fixes a mutex deadlock, and fixes various minor bugs.


Release Notes: This release adds the WavPack input plug-in and the OSS and Sun output plug-ins, improves the configure script, and fixes various minor bugs.


Release Notes: This release adds show-binding and show-option commands, a player-status-format option, and support for glob(3) pathname patterns and other improvements to the commandline parser, changes and extends the format-string syntax, and fixes various minor bugs.


Release Notes: This is the first release.