Listening to music in Linux terminal? Why not? Nothing is impossible when it comes to Linux terminal.There is no shortage of music players on Linux. Almost all of them comes with a GUI or Graphical User Interface. Some of them looks really nice and some not so much. But all of them are graphical. What about, us, terminal lovers? Do we not deserve a treat? Well, today I am going to introduce cmus. If you are a music enthusiast and love the terminal too, you will have to look no further!
moc is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systemsYou just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create playlists as in other players. However if you want to combine some files from one or more directories on one playlist, you can still do it. The playlist will be remembered between runs or you can save it as an m3u file and load it whenever you want.
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Every essential feature a music player needs is present in moc. Some of the basic ones are:
1. MOC plays smoothly, regardless of system or I/O load because it uses the output buffer in a separate thread. It provides gapelss playback because the next file to be played is precached while the current file is playing.
2. Key mapping can be fully customized.
3. Supported file formats include: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, Speex, WAVE (and other less popular formats supported by Sndfile), MOD, WavPack, AAC, SID, MIDI. Moreover most audio formats recognized by FFMpeg/LibAV are also supported (e.g. MP4, Opus, WMA, APE, AC3, DTS - even embedded in video files).
4. Mixer (both software and hardware) and simple equalizer.
5. Color themes.
6. Searching playlist or a directory.
7. Configurable title creation from filenames and file tags.
8. Optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv().
9. OSS, ALSA, JACK and SNDIO output.
10. User defined keys.
11. Cache for files' tags.
4. Mixer (both software and hardware) and simple equalizer.
5. Color themes.
6. Searching playlist or a directory.
7. Configurable title creation from filenames and file tags.
8. Optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv().
9. OSS, ALSA, JACK and SNDIO output.
10. User defined keys.
11. Cache for files' tags.
Installation on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint
moc is available via the official Ubuntu repository. So, installing is as easy as typing a single command: sudo apt install moc-ffmpeg-plugin
Getting started with moc
Being a console application, it takes a little while to get used to moc. But once you do, it’s totally worth it. The first thing you will want to do after installation is run this command: man moc or man mocp
For running moc, just type mocp in terminal at music directory location or navigate to music directory.
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