this is what slackware has for text based, i don't know anything about it though, nor have i ever even installed it. i always use xmms, mplayer might do it too thoughamp: amp (Audio Mpeg Player) is a command-line MPEG audio decoder (MP3
amp: player). It works with both MPEG1 and MPEG2 audio streams (except for
amp: the multichannel extensions defined in MPEG2), layers 2 and 3.