cmus Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Cmus vs. Musikcube

  VLC can be used to play a file from the command line, but there is no user interface. Players like cmus and musikcube have a text based interface and library management. Source: over 1 year ago

• Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

  Cmus [1] is the closest I found to foobar2000. It is my main music player now, after years of disappointment. It supports FLAC and they claim they support CUE sheets, although I haven't tested your particular scenario. The way I use it is I have all my library in it at once, iTunes style. It has good search & playlists, but no drag&drop, since it's just command line... [1] https://cmus.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server

  I use Musikcube a lot, it works great on macOS and Linux, and is snappy even on very cheap or old systems. It has very good mouse support (if your terminal emulator supports it), it's the first time I saw a TUI app with a right click menu, or that you can scroll through. My one major complaint is that there is no way I know of to import/export playlists: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/issues/141 Another... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• What are some of your favorite CLI/TUI apps?

  Cmus as music player. More straight-forward than mpd clients, single app. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Different Music Player

  Just works (plays almost all formats) - FooBar2000 Minimal as fuck (CLI/Terminal) - CMUS Bloat (lots of features some you want, some you didn't know you wanted and stuff you won't use) - tomahawk. Source: about 2 years ago

• What music player do you use in linux?

  It's not to everyone's taste, but my personal favorite music player on linux is cmus. It's a very simple design and it runs well even on very old hardware. Source: about 2 years ago

• TUIs

  A little late to the article, if anyone is still reading comments I recommend cmus, a console music player with extensive key bindings and library support. https://cmus.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Is it possible to trigger the closure of one program with the closure of another?

  It is perfect and glorious, but for one small problem. I'd very much like for both programs to also CLOSE at the same time, or at least sequentially. Is there a way to have one programs' termination trigger another? Specifically, if I have cmus and glava open, I'd like to be able to close cmus (say, by simply pressing 'q' and quitting cmus or by closing the terminal, or killing the program, etc.) and have glava... Source: almost 3 years ago

• iCanHazMusic: lightweight, free and opensource audio-player [EARLY PREVIEW]

  Cmus, which was fun and all, but just a bit too minimalistic. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Any methods to force close music players when window is closed, instead of closing it from tray icon?

  Simplicity and as close to Foobar2000 as you can get https://cmus.github.io/ on Linux. Source: about 3 years ago