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C* Music Player

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.

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  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Configurable

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Terminal-based
  3.  Opus codec support
  4.  Playlists management
  5.  Create Playlist
  6. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  7.  Shoutcast streaming
  8.  Themes
  9.  OGG

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Audio & Music, Video & Movies, OS & Utilities

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  •  521 Forks
  •  219 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about C* Music Player, and it has gotten 38 likes

C* Music Player was added to AlternativeTo by fluffy on and this page was last updated . C* Music Player is sometimes referred to as cmus. 

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Top Positive Comment
mohammadghasemi
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It's a cli music-player but easier than any gui one I've ever worked with. Spend 5 minutes reading this tutorial and you'll never use other music-player.

[Edited by mohammadghasemi, July 25]

madarez
1

It's the most lightweight music player I have found so far--compared with mplayer, mpv, and the GUI based players. The downside is that it doesn't support https streaming: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/207

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What is C* Music Player?

cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Windows)

Playing Gapless playback ReplayGain support MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast) Powerful playlist filters Play queue

Interface Instant startup, even with thousands of tracks 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 Excellent compilations handling Uses Unicode internally for all string handling Supports audio scrobbling (to e.g. Last.fm or Libre.fm) etc. via status display programs Can run external commands for the currently selected files (tag-editor for example) Can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote command Known to work on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Cygwin