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ncmpc VS MOC

Compare ncmpc VS MOC and see what are their differences

ncmpc logo ncmpc

ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses).

MOC logo MOC

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to...
  • ncmpc Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-07-13
  • MOC Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-06-12

ncmpc videos

Spotify + Mopidy + ncmpcpp = The most Linux way to listen to Spotify!

More videos:

  • Review - antimicro-nonX controlling ncmpc on Odroid Go Advance
  • Demo - ncmpc / raspberry pi internet radio player demo

MOC videos

GTA ONLINE: SHOULD YOU BUY THE MOC??? (Mobile Operations Center)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to ncmpc and MOC)
Audio Player
30 30%
70% 70
Media Player
32 32%
68% 68
Video Player
41 41%
59% 59
Music Player
33 33%
67% 67

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, MOC seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

ncmpc mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of ncmpc yet. Tracking of ncmpc recommendations started around Mar 2021.

MOC mentions (8)

  • Any music player that uses the terminal and can show lyrics
    Music On Console has lyrics plugin, but I've never tried it. Source: 11 months ago
  • headless music player project?
    I really quite like MOC's terminal UI for playing music files, and I don't see why it shouldn't work with a network drive too (so long as the network drive is mounted in a "normal" way). Source: over 1 year ago
  • headless music player project?
    I have a pi connected to a hard drive and a pair of speakers (via 3.5mm). I then use MOC to play music via ssh (and I use juiceSSH on my phone if I want to control it from there). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Music / Radio / Podcasts
    I use moc (music on command line) for music: Http://moc.daper.net/ And mpv for internet radio streams. Source: about 2 years ago
  • WM: Fn Volume Keys are not working
    To control playback of media players that support MPRIS you can use playerctl. For those that don't you'll have to check the documentation to find out whether or not they can be controlled via the commandline (and hence the keyboard) and what the commands are (e. g. Mocp [OPTIONS] in the case of MOC). Source: over 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing ncmpc and MOC, you can also consider the following products

ncmpcpp - Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus)

Roon (Music Player) - Roon is a music playing application for audiophiles

mpc - A minimalist command line interface to MPD.

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

musikCube - A fully functional terminal-based music player

mpg123 - mpg123 is a free software cross-platform command-line MPEG audio player whose library, libmpg123...