Band performing

tori – terminal-based music player

In Operation

The first thing you’ll want to do is create some playlists and populate them with songs. The process is simple. With the playlists column selected, press the key a and you’ll be prompted to add a playlist name. Then move to the second column, and  press a again to add a song. This can also be a directory.

When you add a directory, every file is entered into the playlist which is not ideal e.g. if your music albums contain image files as well.

In the image below, we’ve created 9 playlists and populated them with songs.

tori in action

Select a track and press enter to play it. Somewhat confusingly, the default mode just plays that song and then stops. To listen to the entire playlist, you need to add the songs to the queue with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Q. We’d like the ability to be able to view and edit the queue. Hopefully this functionality is added in a later release.

If you’ve installed cava, you can access a spectrum visualizer by pressing v. We’re music purists so this type of graphic frippery isn’t essential for us, but it might float your boat.

tori with visualizations acitviated

What else does tori offer? There’s the ability to filter playlists and songs using the / key. It’s the easiest way to add an album from a playlist to a queue.

You’ll want to view the keyboard shortcuts. Press ? to show these shortcuts.

tori - keyboard shortcuts

Next page: Page 3 – Summary

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Please read our FAQ before making a comment.

3 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Captain Caveman
Captain Caveman
1 year ago

What’s memory consumption like?

Captain Caveman
Captain Caveman
1 year ago

musikcube is so much better in just about every area.