📅 2014-Aug-22 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ cmus, moc ⬩ 📚 Archive
CMUS is a popular music player for the console. The reason I turned to it is because it uses the familiar Vi key bindings for most of its operations.
To install cmus:
$ sudo apt install cmus
The CMUS interface can be quite confusing to understand at first. It is highly recommended to read the short tutorial before using it:
$ man cmus-tutorial
For more information about its operation:
$ man cmus
Some common operations I use in CMUS:
5
: Browser view, used to add music files to library.
a
: Add music files under cursor to library in Browser view.
2
: Library view, shows the music files added.
Enter
: Play music file under cursor
c
: Toggle pause-unpause
b
: Play next song
C
: Set songs in Library to play one after another
r
: Set songs in Library to repeat
s
: Set songs in Library to play in shuffle order
:clear
: Clear files in Library
:q
: Quit CMUS
One feature from MOC that I miss in CMUS is I would like it to keep playing in the background after I quit it. This is not possible in CMUS. Instead, what I do is that I launch CMUS in real terminal Ctrl + Alt + F1
and switch back to Ctrl + Alt + F7
for my work.
Tried with: CMUS 2.5.0 and Ubuntu 14.04