CMus – small, fast and powerful console music player

C* Music Player (CMus) is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player.

It has some interesting features such as a configurable colour scheme, mp3 and ogg streaming. It can be controlled with a UNIX socket, filters, album/artists sorting and a vi-like configuration interface.

It also features background playlist loading and a metadata cache make loading files very fast, as well as playqueue, playlist filters and a directory browser. Three playlist views are available: artist/album/track, shuffle list, and sorted list. There are also three play modes: all, artist, album.

Features include:

• Input Plugins:
  • FLAC.
  • Ogg/Vorbis.
  • MP3 (libmad).
  • Wav.
  • AAC (libfaad).
  • MP4 (libfaad + libmp4v2).
  • .mod, .s3m, … (libmodplug, mikmod).
  • .mpc, mpp, .mp+ (libmpcdec).
  • .wma (ffmpeg).
  • .wv (wavpack).
• Output Plugins:
  • ALSA.
  • libao.
  • ARTS.
  • OSS.
  • Sun.
  • RoarAudio.
  • WaveOut (Windows).
• Playing:
  • Album/artist modes; playing within one album or artist.
  • Play queue.
  • MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast).
  • Powerful playlist filters.
  • Resume support.
• Live filtering.
• Interface:
  • Easy to use directory browser.
  • Customizable colors.
  • Dynamic keybindings. You can bind a key to any command, :seek +1m
    for example.
  • Vi / less style search mode.
  • Vi style command mode with tab completion.
• Misc:
  • Mutt-like short filters.
  • Can run external commands for the currently selected files (tag-editor for example).
  • UTF-8 support.
  • Can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote
    command.
  • HTTP proxy support for streams.

Website: cmus.github.io
Support: GitHub
Developer: Gregory Petrosyan, Jason Woofenden
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

CMus is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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