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ncmpcpp

Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon Created by Andrzej Rybczak

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ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Main features:
- tag editor
- playlist editor
- easy to use search engine
- media library
- music visualizer
- ability to fetch artist info from last.fm
- new display mode
- alternative user interface
- ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory
…and a lot more minor functions.

Dependencies:
- boost library
- ncurses library
- readline library
- curl library (for fetching lyrics and last.fm data)
- fftw library (optional, required for frequency spectrum music visualization mode)
- tag library (optional, required for tag editing) More Info »

Known issues:
- No full support for handling encodings other than UTF-8.

Links to official ncmpcpp sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Command line interface Music Player Tagging Add a feature

Categories

Audio & Music OS & Utilities File Management

Tags

colors mp3tag mpd tag-editor

ncmpcpp was added by tarberry in Apr 2017 and the latest update was made in Aug 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on ncmpcpp or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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