cmus
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. (by cmus)
mocp
Music On Console Player (by jonsafari)

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cmus | mocp | |
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38 | 14 | |
5,671 | 380 | |
0.7% | - | |
8.0 | 0.0 | |
about 1 month ago | about 2 years ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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cmus
Posts with mentions or reviews of cmus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-12.
- DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
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Stream music from the terminal on android.
Cmus. https://github.com/cmus/cmus
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Cmus vs. Musikcube
VLC can be used to play a file from the command line, but there is no user interface. Players like cmus and musikcube have a text based interface and library management.
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Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping
cmus [1] is the closest I found to foobar2000. It is my main music player now, after years of disappointment. It supports FLAC and they claim they support CUE sheets, although I haven't tested your particular scenario. The way I use it is I have all my library in it at once, iTunes style. It has good search & playlists, but no drag&drop, since it's just command line...
[1] https://cmus.github.io/
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[herbstluftwm] a devilish font for dark wizards
music player: cmus
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I wrote a "12 favourite terminal tools" list-article, what did I left out that should be absolutely included?
CMUS https://cmus.github.io/
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Good music player/client for Mac?
Foobar2000 or CMus (CLI, but very simply and powerfull - but ofc no cover art without additional plugins/apps). https://www.foobar2000.org/mac https://github.com/cmus/cmus
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Music Organisation on Linux
I have a (comparatively) small collection (20gb), so here is how I do it: I use beets for the organization (https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/main.html) and cmus (https://github.com/cmus/cmus/blob/master/Doc/cmus-tutorial.txt) for playing.
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What's the most enjoyable FLAC streaming setup?
CMUS (Pi command line music payer)
- cmus - C* Music Player, Open Source CLI music player with Vim bindings
mocp
Posts with mentions or reviews of mocp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
- Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
- The best command line mp3 player. What is it?
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Any music player that uses the terminal and can show lyrics
Music On Console has lyrics plugin, but I've never tried it.
- ce specificatii hardware/software a avut primul tau pc?
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headless music player project?
I really quite like MOC's terminal UI for playing music files, and i don't see why it shouldn't work with a network drive too (so long as the network drive is mounted in a "normal" way).
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Anyone knows if I can install a mp3 player on Jelos?
That being said: this has many drawbacks and ideally you would port something like moc to ARM64. It's lightweight and feature rich.
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My Linux Mint 20.03 Setup (update)
It's called mocp - Music On Console Player.
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Music / Radio / Podcasts
I use moc (music on command line) for music: http://moc.daper.net/ And mpv for internet radio streams.
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Increase battery life in linux
music: moc
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Perks of having a LinuxAudio setup!
Music: Music Player Daemon (The ALSA of music players!) MOC (Terminal frontend for MPD) ncmpcpp (Anyone who tells you there's a better music player for Linux than this, is a scammer!) kunst (Even blind people need Album Art to listen music ;) Spicetify (Spicey Spotify with pywal!)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cmus and mocp you can also consider the following projects:
musikcube - a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++
D2Evil - Managed waifu model parsing libs.
Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!
mpd - Music Player Daemon
strawberry - :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player
Spicetify - Spice up your Spotify client
md2pdf - Markdown to PDF conversion tool
ncmpcpp - Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc
cmusfm - Last.fm standalone scrobbler for the cmus music player
googler - :mag: Google from the terminal
Clementine - :tangerine: Clementine Music Player
kunst - Download and display album art or display embedded album art

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