CMus is a terminal-based music player using the ncurses toolkit. CMus supports various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, AAC and MP4.
sudo apt install cmus
First of all, we will add several songs to the media library. CMus uses Vi-style commands, so all the commands will start with : followed by a certain command. For example, to add all the audio files inside the ~/music directory, we would use:
:add ~/music
seven different views
- 1 - Library, the default view mode, including two tabs (artists/albums and songs in currently selected album)
- 2 - Sorted Library, which provides a playlist view allowing to jump to specific tracks (this view can be customized in view mode 6
- 3 - Playlist, editable playlist
- 4 - Play Queue, which displays the track queue
- 5 - File Browser
- 6 - Filters, a list of user-defined filters for the library
- 7 - Settings, which displays key bindings and commands
control
- TAB to switch between the two tabs
- X to start playing
- V to stop playing
- C to pause playing
- - to decrease volume by 10%
- + to increase volume by 10%
colon commands
:set softvol=true - enable software volume control :add /path/to/music/dir - will add all the audio files from /path/to/music/dir to the library :clear - will clear the playlist :save playlist.pls - will save the current playlist :load playlist.pls - will load playlist.pls :set status-display-program=/path/to/scrobbler - will set the script to use for Last.fm song submission