jack2 VS ncmpcpp

Compare jack2 vs ncmpcpp and see what are their differences.

jack2

jack2 codebase (by jackaudio)

ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc (by ncmpcpp)
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jack2 ncmpcpp
10 14
2,113 1,964
1.2% 2.3%
6.0 2.6
13 days ago about 1 month ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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jack2

Posts with mentions or reviews of jack2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.

ncmpcpp

Posts with mentions or reviews of ncmpcpp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
  • Cozytile - A Cozy Qtile Rice
    9 projects | /r/qtile | 11 May 2023
    OS: Arch Linux WM: Qtile Panel: Qtile bar Launcher: Rofi Notification Daemon: Dunst Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Compositor: Picom File Manager: Nemo Music Player: Spotify & ncmpcpp
  • my first rice! :)
    12 projects | /r/bspwm | 23 Feb 2023
    ncmpcpp
  • Control MPD with Emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Nov 2021
    An alternative Emacs client for MPD is Mingus (although i myself use the standalone ncurses client ncmpcpp).
  • Was told y'all might like my new laptop setup
    5 projects | /r/outrun | 1 Sep 2021
    The little one at the bottom right is mako, the music player is ncmpcpp and the music visualiser is cava
  • Cli music streaming
    13 projects | /r/commandline | 27 Aug 2021
    If you want to stream audio from a service like Spotify or SoundCloud, I can recommend Mopidy as a backend with a commandline frontend like ncmpcpp.
  • Perks of having a LinuxAudio setup!
    14 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 10 Jul 2021
    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!)
  • [dwm] Lakeside
    3 projects | /r/unixporn | 28 Jan 2021
  • [xmonad] singularity
    7 projects | /r/unixporn | 27 Jan 2021
    Music player: mpd + ncmpcpp
  • Music Hoarders that moved from Windows to Linux, how was the transition like?
    4 projects | /r/musichoarder | 20 Jan 2021
    I did that particular transition myself not that long ago. I used MusicBee and never thought I could replace it, but I did. For library management I use beets and for playing music I use mpd. The front-end I use for mpd is ncmpcpp which is a terminal player. There are several other front ends available. I also use Puddletag to check the tags before importing into beets. If I just want to listen to some files without importing into my library, I use Deadbeef.
  • [BSPWM] Just Messing Around
    4 projects | /r/unixporn | 1 Jan 2021
    Bottom Left: ncmpcpp playing a playlist from Tidal using Mopidy

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jack2 and ncmpcpp you can also consider the following projects:

mocp - Music On Console Player

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

shell-color-scripts

spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

pajackconnect - Make JACK Work With PulseAudio

kunst - Download and display album art or display embedded album art

awesome-ricing - A curated list of awesome tools and technology to help you out with ricing on linux

mpd - Music Player Daemon

noise-repellent - Lv2 suite of plugins for broadband noise reduction

mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

pavucontrol - Mirror of the PulseAudio Volume Control application (for bug reports and pull requests go to the website!)