Cmus

Infobox Software
name = cmus



caption =
developer = Timo Hirvonen
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = C*
operating system = Linux, BSD
language = ?
genre = Audio player
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ cmus.sourceforge.net]

cmus (C* Music Player) is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of 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.

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.

Features

* Input Plugins
** FLAC
** Ogg/Vorbis
** MP3 (libmad)
** Wav
** WMA (ffmpeg)
** .mod, .s3m, ... (libmodplug)
** .mpc, mpp, .mp+ (libmpcdec)
** MPEG-4/AAC (libmp4v2, libfaad2)
* Output Plugins
** ALSA
** [http://www.xiph.org/ao/ libao]
** [http://www.arts-project.org/ 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

See also

* Herrie
* Music On Console
* Free audio software
* Linux audio software

External links

* [http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ Official website]
* [http://mirror.greaterscope.net/cmus cmus source mirror]
* [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=cmus-devel cmus-devel mailinglist archive]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cmus/ cmus] on Freshmeat