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C* Music Player

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD. Created by Timo Hirvonen, Gregory Petrosyan, Jason Woofenden

Free Open Source
Linux
BSD

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

Input/Output Plugins
Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug
Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Windows)

Playing
Gapless playback
ReplayGain support
MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
Powerful playlist filters
Play queue More Info »

Interface
Instant startup, even with thousands of tracks
Easy to use directory browser
Customizable colors
Dynamic keybindings. You can bind a key to any command, :seek +1m for example
Vi / less style search mode
Vi style command mode with tab completion

Misc
Excellent compilations handling
Uses Unicode internally for all string handling
Supports audio scrobbling (to e.g. Last.fm or Libre.fm) etc. via status display programs
Can run external commands for the currently selected files (tag-editor for example)
Can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote command
Known to work on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Cygwin

Link to official C* Music Player site

Official Website

Features

Command line interface Configurable Last.FM Scrobbler Shoutcast streaming Add a feature

Categories

Audio & Music OS & Utilities

Tags

audio-scrobbler command-line-interface configurable flac last.fm-scrobbler music-player ogg shoutcast-streaming wav xfce

C* Music Player (sometimes referred to as cmus) was added by fluffy in Nov 2010 and the latest update was made in Dec 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jan 2019 There is a history of all activites on C* Music Player in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on C* Music Player or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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