I've used cmus a bit and really like it--the simplicity is great if you have a lot of albums. Graphical players always bog down, are slow to scroll, etc.
Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player
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#12Some time ago I did complete depart from Apple apps and services, while still using Mac. It was pain to extract all the images from Photos but music transition to cmus was smooth. I am mostly playing di.fm stations and cmus works well with subscription links.
Sadly both cmus and mplayer on Mac rely on Carbon components so there is big console warning for using deprecated components and more importantly they can't be send to background. If somebody got them playing as background process please let me know.
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#13cool. Unfortunately, I get all my music from spotify now. No more mp3s.
If you'd still like to use a terminal player you should check out mopidy: https://www.mopidy.com
I'm curious... Is mopidy like mpd in that clients that connect are only able to edit the playlist? Or can they themselves play songs?
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#14cmus user here. Its the only music player on my machine, but I'm using it less and less every day (Google Play Music)
Same here. But when it comes to playing music stored locally, I’ve been using cmus for many years without trouble.
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#15I've been using cmus for the past two months and absolutely love it! Its simplicity compared to many other ncurses-based applications is refreshing. My only wish is that it was a bit more "vi-y". I'm sure someone has a way, though ;).
I use moc ( http://moc.daper.net/ ) but seeing the example command on the cmus homepage (:seek +1m) makes me want to test it.
I used cmus before I found moc on Crunchbang. The feel of moc was just right for me.
I wrote down how I use moc[1]. Hope someone might like it. Also I tried to make navigation feel like vim sometime back. The keymap[2] might have a few tips.
[1] https://chanux.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-thinnest-music-i...
[2] https://github.com/chanux/dotfiles/blob/master/moc/keymap
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you'd still like to use a terminal player you should check out mopidy: https://www.mopidy.com
I'm curious... Is mopidy like mpd in that clients that connect are only able to edit the playlist? Or can they themselves play songs?
It's not just like mpd, it is mpd + a HTTP server. Ergo you need to control it with a CLI or graphical mpd client or with a web client.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use moc ( http://moc.daper.net/ ) but seeing the example command on the cmus homepage (:seek +1m) makes me want to test it.
I used cmus before I found moc on Crunchbang. The feel of moc was just right for me. I wrote down how I use moc[1]. Hope someone might like it. Also I tried to make navigation feel like vim sometime back. The keymap[2] might have a few tips. [1] https://chanux.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-thinnest-music-i... [2] https://github.com/chanux/dotfiles/blob/master/moc/keymap
Yeah, thanks for sharing. I am also a moc enthusiast. Your post inspired me to add key bindings for moc commands to my awesomewm's rc.lua.
Oh and since I have no use for the audioStop key I made it run a python script that displays the name of the current song via dbus.
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#18cool. Unfortunately, I get all my music from spotify now. No more mp3s.
Same here... but I've been thinking of switching as mostly I just listen to a few playlists. Are there any tools to let you easily purchase songs on iTunes / Amazon / etc based upon a Spotify playlist?
I also would like to know this, I want to try something different than Spotify. But every time I try, I miss all my playlists, and switch back to Spotify again.
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#19Oh wow, did not expect this here! I am the current maintainer (not the original author) of cmus, and can answer some questions, if they'll come up.
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#20My two cents: I used cmus before, but in the long term I still prefer mplayer.
I construct the playlists myself by using soft-links to the actual paths of the songs. Real files are placed in sensibly named directories.
It's a matter of taste of course. Still I really appreciate that people write this kind of software for the terminal!