cmus - ncurses based music player

cmus is a small and fast text mode music player for Linux and many other UNIX like operating systems.

Features

• Input Plugins
  • FLAC
  • Ogg/Vorbis
  • MP3 (libmad)
  • Wav
  • AAC (libfaad)
  • MP4 (libfaad + libmp4v2)
  • .mod, .s3m, ... (libmodplug, mikmod)
  • .mpc, mpp, .mp+ (libmpcdec)
  • .wma (ffmpeg)
  • .wv (wavpack)
• Output Plugins
  • ALSA
  • libao
  • ARTS
  • OSS
  • Sun
  • WaveOut (Windows)
• Playing
  • Album/artist modes; playing within one album or artist
  • Play queue
  • MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
  • Powerful playlist filters
• Interface
  • 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
  • Can run external commands for the currently selected files (tag-editor for example)
  • UTF-8 support
  • Can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote command
  • Known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Cygwin

Dependencies

• ncurses (ncursesw recommended)

Optional Dependencies

• alsa-lib [ALSA]
• libao [libao]
• artsc [ARTS]
• flac [.flac]
• libvorbis [.ogg]
• libmad [.mp3]
• libmpcdec [.mpc, .mpp, .mp+]
• libmodplug [.mod, .s3m, ...]
• libmikmod [.mod, .s3m, ...]
• wavpack [.wv]
• mp4v2, faad [.mp4, m4a, m4b]
• faad [.aac]
• ffmpeg [.wma]

Files

Download: cmus-2.2.0.tar.bz2

Mirror: http://mirror.greaterscope.net/cmus/

Announcements: files/announcements/

Audioscrobbler/Last.fm patch written by Frank Terbeck

GIT repository

git clone git://repo.or.cz/cmus.git

See also gitweb for latest changes.

Mailing List

cmus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Development, bug reports, feature requests, announcements

Screenshots

Directory browser: cmus-1.4.0-browser.png

Play queue: cmus-1.4.0-play-queue.png

Sorted view: cmus-1.4.0-sorted-view.png

Tree view: cmus-1.4.6-tree-view.png

Playlist filters: cmus-1.6.0-filters.png