cmus

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

• UTF-8 support
• Excellent compilations handling
• 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

cmus comes with a great reference manual. If you have it installed, try
man cmus-tutorial, man cmus and man cmus-remote.

Online Documentation

• cmus-tutorial(7)
• cmus(1)
• cmus-remote(1)

Stable Releases

• cmus-v2.3.3.tar.bz2, released 17.06.2010
  Among other things, this release features gapless MP3 playback, native PulseAudio support, faster startup, and much improved compilations handling.
• cmus-v2.2.0.tar.bz2, released 27.07.2007

Bleeding Edge

git clone git://gitorious.org/cmus/cmus.git

Extras

• cmus_add_similar.py script to automatically add similar tracks to the playlist, by Johannes Weißl
• Audioscrobbler/Last.fm patch written by Frank Terbeck
• cmuscrobbler — Python scrobbler script
• post-fm — Perl one

Git Repository

git clone git://gitorious.org/cmus/cmus.git

Mailing List

cmus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Dependencies

• ncurses (ncursesw recommended)

Optional Dependencies

• libpulse (PulseAudio)
• alsa-lib (ALSA)
• OSS (OSS)
• libao (libao)
• aRts (aRts)
• FLAC (.flac)
• libvorbis (.ogg)
• libmpcdec (.mpc, .mpp, .mp+)
• wavpack (.wv)
• libmad (.mp3)
• libavcodec (.wma)
• FAAD (.aac)
• mp4v2, FAAD (.mp4, m4a, m4b)
• libmodplug (.mod, .s3m, ... )
• libmikmod (.mod, .s3m, ...)