C* Music Player

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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.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
C* Music Player screenshot 1
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Configurable

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Terminal-based
  3.  Opus codec support
  4.  Themes
  5.  OGG
  6. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  7.  Create Playlist
  8.  Shoutcast streaming
  9.  Playlists management

 Tags

  • wav
  • Xfce
  • audio-scrobbler
  • flac-converter

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C* Music Player information

  • Developed by

    Timo Hirvonen, Gregory Petrosyan, Jason Woofenden

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    82 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Audio & Music, Video & Movies, OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  5,793 Stars
  •  482 Forks
  •  202 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 16, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about C* Music Player, and it has gotten 36 likes

C* Music Player was added to AlternativeTo by fluffy on Nov 30, 2010 and this page was last updated Oct 8, 2021. C* Music Player is sometimes referred to as cmus.

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Top Positive Comment
mohammadghasemi
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Jul 25, 2015
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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]

madarez
Aug 21, 2021
0

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

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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