pavucontrol vs ncmpcpp

pavucontrol

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

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ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc (by ncmpcpp)

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pavucontrol		ncmpcpp
	Project
1	Mentions	14
86	Stars	1,975
-	Growth	1.7%
4.0	Activity	2.6
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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pavucontrol

Posts with mentions or reviews of pavucontrol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-10.

Perks of having a LinuxAudio setup!
14 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 10 Jul 2021

PulseAudio: PulseAudio-ALSA-JACK Bridge (Comes out of the box with Cadence!) pavucontrol The rest of PulseAudio magic is done by playing with your default.pa/system.pa files ;)

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.

maestro: A cross-platform CLI music player
1 project | /r/Python | 10 Jun 2023

well, https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp has 1.8k stars, and my project, IMO, is a humble attempt at making a better version of that
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
ncmpcpp is not really fetching the lyrics
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 8 Jun 2022

Nevermind, Azlyrics changed the html tags so the lyric_fetchers was simply fetching blank. This PR takes care of it. I simply build the the branch with the commit and everything is working. Expect to see it in the next few upstream release
ncmpcpp: Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc
1 project | /r/planetemacs | 7 Nov 2021
ncmpcpp frozen issue
1 project | /r/archlinux | 6 Nov 2021

Sadly that's an old bug, occuring when the mpd config is faulty: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/issues/147
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!)