cmus — C* Music Player
cmus is a small, fast, and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD. It supports almost all common file formats, SHOUTcast/Icecast streaming, and multiple output plugins. cmus features multiple media library views, a playqueue, a directory browser, powerful filters, and vi-style search and keybindings. It also features gapless playback, ReplayGain, Unicode support, and customizable color schemes.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Players MP3 Console |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux BSD Windows Windows Cygwin OS X |
| Implementation | C |
Last announcement
cmus is alive 20 Feb 2010
Nearly 2 years ago, Timo Hirvonen, original author of cmus, has disappeared. Since then, cmus-unofficial fork was used for collecting patches from ...
Recent releases
- 30 Nov 2011 22:24
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release; compared to 2.4.2, it mostly fixes several build and stability issues caused by external library changes. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade, as usual.
- 24 Jul 2011 11:41
Release Notes: This maintenance release contains several important bug and build fixes; everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
- 26 May 2011 21:08
Release Notes: Several crashes, misbehaviours, and build issues are fixed compared to 2.4.0. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
- 24 Apr 2011 07:41
Release Notes: Compared to 2.3.x, cmus 2.4.0 features live filtering, mutt-like short filters, resume support, smarter string handling, long format options (including ones for bitrate/codec), HTTP proxy support, less CPU wakeups during playback, new RoarAudio output plugin, support for big-endian systems, and lots of different new audio sample formats.
- 10 Apr 2011 14:54
Release Notes: Lots of changes were made to cmus' internals. Three features really stand out for end-users: live filtering, the ability to resume playback on startup, and long format options, including new %{codec} and %{bitrate}.
Recent comments
Re: flac tags
> Flac reads tags just fine for me.
I mean "the flac plugin" of course :)
Re: flac tags
> Not reading flac tags here. Using
> version 2.2.0-1 Ubuntu package. Is it
> just me?
>
> btw, this is a great program. I
> installed it on my server when I was
> upgrading my desktop and couldn't use
> Amarok. That was two weeks ago, and I
> haven't reinstalled Amarok yet :) Five
> stars!
Flac reads tags just fine for me. There was a compatibility issue with some versions of the flac library which I fixed. Try this snapshot:
cmus.tar.gz
I blogged it
Hey there, just wanted to let you know that you've been blogged! I just posted part 1 of what I hope will be a 2 or 3 part series on getting started with cmus. Check it out! (guerrillatech.wordpres...)
Re: flac tags
Durr... I mean ten stars! If it was out of five, it would be five stars! Yeah...
:)
-p.
flac tags
Not reading flac tags here. Using version 2.2.0-1 Ubuntu package. Is it just me?
btw, this is a great program. I installed it on my server when I was upgrading my desktop and couldn't use Amarok. That was two weeks ago, and I haven't reinstalled Amarok yet :) Five stars!
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