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CMus

Maintainer:	Timo Hirvonen
Stable release:	2.1.0 (December 21, 2006) _[+/-]
Preview release:	none (none) _[+/-]
OS:	Linux, BSD
Use:	Audio player
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	onion.dynserv.net/~timo/cmus.html

Cmus in the Tree view

Cmus in the List view

Cmus in the File Browser view

Cmus in the Filter view

Cmus in the Queue view

Cmus in the Playlist view

Cmus (C* Music Player) is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems. Cmus is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.

The text-only design vastly reduces the resources needed to run the program, making it a strong choice for very light computers as well as systems where a graphical environment (such as the X Window System) is not available. By eliminating the use of mouse, the program performs a wide array of tasks faster than its mouse-driven counterparts, albeit after some practice with the non-mouse paradigm.

[edit] Basic Use

Owing to the console-orientation and portability goals of the project, Cmus is controlled exclusively via the keyboard (excepting the operation through cmus-remote). Commands are loosely modeled after those of the vi text editor. General operation mimics being in command-mode of vi, where complex commands are issued by prepending them with a colon, (e.g. ":add /home/user/music-dir"), simpler, more common commands are bound to individual keys, such as "j/k" moving down/up, or "x" starting playback, and searches beginning with "/" as in "/the beatles" searching (case insensitive) for any tracks containing both "the" and "beatles," order irrelevant. Note that default case insensitivity and searching for each of the space-separated terms is a deviation from the Regular Expressions engine that vi uses.

Any command may be bound to a single key, expediting complex commands' repeated use. The default configuration is fully customizable, which is a boon to non-English keyboard layouts.

A small tool called 'cmus-remote' allows manipulation of any aspect of Cmus available in the interactive program from externally.

[edit] Features

Input Plugins
- FLAC
- Ogg/Vorbis
- MP3 (libmad)
- Wav
- .mod, .s3m, ... (libmodplug)
- .mpc, mpp, .mp+ (libmpcdec)
- MPEG-4/AAC (libmp4v2, libfaad2)
Output Plugins
- ALSA
- libao
- ARTS
- OSS
- Sun Audio
Playing
- Artist/album/track tree view
- List view
- Editable playlists
- Play queue
- MP3, Ogg and AAC streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
- Powerful playlist filters
Interface
- Simple directory browser
- Fully customizable colors
- Tab-completion on commands
Misc
- UTF-8 support
- Execute external commands for marked files
- Tested on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD