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...
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
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C* Music Player information
- Developed byTimo Hirvonen, Gregory Petrosyan, Jason Woofenden
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives81 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 4,836 Stars
- 475 Forks
- 243 Open Issues
- Updated
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Tags
- Audio Player
- wav
- Xfce
- audio-scrobbler
- flac-converter
Recent user activities on C* Music Player
dettusadded C* Music Player as alternative(s) to d11amp
comancheroadded C* Music Player as alternative(s) to piCorePlayer- comancheroadded C* Music Player as alternative(s) to piCorePlayer
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