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MOC

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MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Xfce
5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
30likes
2comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Works Offline

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    HappioCRZ added MOC as alternative to foobar2000
    about 1 month ago
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    POX removed MOC as alternative to GOM Player
    about 2 months ago
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    muhammadfarag added MOC as alternative to PLAYit Video Player
    5 months ago
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    POX added MOC as alternative to kew
    6 months ago
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    CIAvash added MOC as alternative to rmpc
    7 months ago
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    K0RR added MOC as alternative to mpvKt
    8 months ago
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    POX added MOC as alternative to Showtime Player
    10 months ago
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MOC information

  • Developed by

    Damian Pietras
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    127 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

OS & UtilitiesAudio & Music

GitHub repository

  •  386 Stars
  •  35 Forks
  •  17 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 14, 2023 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about MOC, and it has gotten 30 likes

MOC was added to AlternativeTo by Deleteuser01 on May 5, 2010 and this page was last updated Jan 16, 2023. MOC is sometimes referred to as Music on Console.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
rdabhi
Feb 26, 2020
0

Lightweight & gets the job done. On debian based systems, give the command mocp not moc in terminal

loxaxs
May 7, 2018
0

Lightweight on disk, on ram and on cpu, easy to get started (h or ? for help), easy to use, fast controls (vim-like), use from terminal, uses keyboard, responsive, client-server model --

What is MOC?

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create play lists like in other players.

If you want to combine some files from one or few directories on one play list, you can do this. The play list will be remembered between runs or you can save it as an m3u file to load it whenever you want.

Need the console where MOC is running for more important things? Need to close the X terminal emulator? You don't have to stop playing - just press q and the interface will be detached leaving the server running. You can attach it later, or you can attach one interface in the console, and another in the X terminal emulator, no need to switch just to play another file.

MOC plays smoothly, regardless of system or I/O load because it uses the output buffer in a separate thread. It doesn't cause gaps between files, because the next file to be played is precached while playing the current file.

Internet stream (Icecast, Shoutcast) are supported.

Key mapping can be fully customized.

Supported file formats are: mp3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, Speex, WAVE, AIFF, AU (and other less popular formats supported by libsndfile. New formats support is under development.

Other features:

Simple mixer.

Color themes.

Searching the menu (the play list or a directory) like M-s in Midnight Commander.

The way MOC creates titles from tags is configurable.

Optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv().

OSS, JACK, and ALSA output.

The binary file is called mocp due to conflict with other program on many systems.

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