mpd and cmus are both awesome. I found mpd cumbersome to setup, and couldn't find a frontend I liked. cmus was closer to hitting the sweet spot, but I didn't find a remote control (or streaming) solution that worked the way I wanted it to. I also wanted something super lightweight that I could use in Windows without needing to install something like WSL or Cygwin.
In a nutshell: musikcube probably has fewer features than these alternatives, but packages everything together with a clean, straight forward user interface.
In a nutshell: musikcube probably has fewer features than these alternatives, but packages everything together with a clean, straight forward user interface.