C* Music Player
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 (Wind.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Configurable
Features
- Command line interface
- Terminal-based
- Opus codec support
- Playlists management
- Create Playlist
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Shoutcast streaming
- Themes
- OGG
Tags
- audio-scrobbler
- flac-converter
- wav
- Xfce
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C* Music Player information
Developed by
Timo Hirvonen, Gregory Petrosyan, Jason WoofendenLicensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
80 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Audio & Music, Video & Movies, OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
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- 208 Open Issues
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What is C* Music Player?
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
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
Comments and Reviews
It's a cli music-player but easier than any gui one I've ever worked with. Spend 5 minutes reading this tutorial and you'll never use other music-player.
[Edited by mohammadghasemi, July 25]
It's the most lightweight music player I have found so far--compared with mplayer, mpv, and the GUI based players. The downside is that it doesn't support https streaming: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/207