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ncmpcpp

Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.

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  • Mac
  • Windows  Use within Windows requires mpd, ncmpdpp and either cygwin or bash (Windows 10, possibly others).
  • Linux
  • BSD
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Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Tagging

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Audio & Music, OS & Utilities, File Management

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  •  250 Forks
  •  227 Open Issues
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What is ncmpcpp?

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)

Known issues:

  • No full support for handling encodings other than UTF-8.

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