Cliamp has open-sourced its mobile music-player repository, with two public Android releases listed on GitHub as of September 14.
Bjarne Øverli, who uses the handle @iamdothash, announced the change in a post on X and directed prospective contributors to the repository for releases and contribution materials. The releases page lists cliamp 0.1.0, released September 14, and cliamp 0.0.1, released September 1. Each release has three downloadable assets, including APK files for sideloading.
The move gives community developers access to the Android client’s code and public builds. Øverli said the project will make its software natively for devices, citing the current AI era in explaining that preference.
The mobile repository describes the app as bringing the desktop terminal player’s style and self-hosted capabilities to Android through a native terminal-like interface. Its Android implementation uses Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Media3. iOS and desktop implementations are planned and unreleased.
The repository uses a custom free-use license that permits copying and modification while barring commercial resale and hosted services. The initial 0.0.1 release was published with a verified GPG signature attributed to user bjarneo.
At the time of reporting, the mobile repository had 313 commits, nine stars and two forks. Its release notes describe the Android app as a radio player for Cliamp radio and the radio-browser directory.
The desktop Cliamp project is a retro terminal-based music player inspired by Winamp. Written in Go, it supports local files and streaming sources including Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Navidrome, Plex, Jellyfin and internet radio. The main desktop repository had 4.2k stars, 280 forks and 931 commits as of research.
The news was announced in a post on X.
