CMus is a small and fast music player using the ncurses library. CMus has vi-style command interface, e.g. searching using '/' or '?' and adding files to playlist ':add ~/foo.ogg'.

Here are some key features of "CMus C Music Player":

Input

· FLAC
· Ogg/Vorbis
· MP3 (libmad)
· Wav
· Modules (libmodplug)

Output

· ALSA
· OSS
· ARTS

· MP3 and Ogg streaming (Shoutcast/Icecast)
· WinAmp / XMMS keys "zxcvb"
· Can be controlled via UNIX socket
· Serial port remote controller support (irman)
· Customizable colors
· Nice vi-style interface with tabulator expansion
· Background playlist loading
· Track metadata database makes adding files to playlist very fast.
· Album/artist modes. Playing within one album or artist.
· Playlist is always kept sorted.
· Play queue
· Directory browser
· Full UTF-8 support


Product's homepage

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This maintenance release contains several important bug and build fixes; everyone is encouraged to upgrade.