cmus, also known as the C* Music Player is a small yet fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. It comes with a number of great features, such as gapless playback, ReplayGain support, MP3 and Ogg streaming, easy-to-use directory browser, powerful playlist filters / live filtering and more. cmus also supports several input and output plugins. Input plugins include: Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Opus, Musepack, WavPack, WAV, AAC, MP4, audio CD and more. Output plugins include: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, JACK, RoarAudio, CoreAudio, libao, among others.

Features

  • Numerous input and output plugins
  • Gapless playback
  • ReplayGain support
  • MP3 and Ogg streaming (SHOUTcast/Icecast)
  • Play queue
  • Optional playback resume on startup
  • Instant startup, even with thousands of tracks
  • Powerful playlist filters / live filtering
  • Easy to use directory browser
  • Customizable colors
  • Dynamic keybindings
  • Vi / less style search mode
  • Vi style command mode with tab completion
  • CUE sheets support
  • Excellent compilations handling
  • Uses Unicode internally for all string handling
  • Supports audio scrobbling
  • Can run external commands for the currently selected files
  • Can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote command
  • Known to work on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Cygwin

Project Samples

cmus - 2.4.3 osx

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Categories

Music Players, Sound/Audio, MP3

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Music Players, C Sound Audio, C MP3 Software

Registered

2020-03-27
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