cmus VS vifm

Compare cmus vs vifm and see what are their differences.

cmus

Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. (by cmus)

vifm

Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. (by vifm)
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cmus vifm
37 35
5,227 2,616
1.0% 2.0%
7.1 9.5
4 days ago 17 days 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 2023-01-22.

vifm

Posts with mentions or reviews of vifm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cmus and vifm you can also consider the following projects:

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

musikcube - a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

mocp - Music On Console Player

fm-nvim - 🗂 Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers (and fuzzy finders) from within Neovim.

chafa - 📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux - This is a project, where I give you a way to use Autodesk Fusion 360 on Linux!

z.lua - :zap: A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder