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3/3/2016 Guide to CMus - Music Player for Your Terminal | Tu Debian/Ubuntu The static side of TuxArena Navigation Home TuxArena TuxArena Blog NeonView Forum Featured Tutorial How to Compile C/C++ in Ubuntu for Educational Purposes Guides How to Compile C/C++ in Ubuntu for Educational Purposes Complete Guide to Firefox in Ubuntu Complete Step by Step Guide to Make ISO Images in Ubuntu Guide to CMus Music Player for Your Terminal CommandLine Guide to Audio Files in Ubuntu Introduction to Linux CommandLine for Beginners A Guide to Wine on Ubuntu for Beginners Tutorials 2 Ways to Install the Latest Flash Player in Ubuntu 11.04 HowTo: Create ISO Images from Command Line HowTo: Enable Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor Guide to CMus Music Player for Your Terminal CMus is a free, powerful, terminalbased music player using the ncurses toolkit. CMus supports various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, AAC and MP4. Although CMus is not the only good player for the shell (alternatives like MOC, Herrie or mp3blaster are also available), I prefer it due to its unique keyboard shortcuts and feature completeness. This guide is divided into the following sections (click on any to jump directly to it): CMus Features Using CMus Enabling Last.fm or Libre.fm Song Submission in CMus HowTo: Compile and Install CMus in Debian 5.0 Lenny CMus Features Here are the main features of CMus: Gapless playback ReplayGain support MP3 and Ogg streaming from SHOUTcast or Icecast Playlist support and powerful playlist filters Play queue File browser Last.fm or Libre.fm song submission support (via scripts) Seven different view modes Color themes Vilike keyboard shortcuts Using CMus First of all, we will add several songs to the media library. CMus uses Vistyle commands, so all the commands will start with : followed by a certain command. For example, to add all the audio files inside the ~/music directory, we would use: :add ~/music To quit CMus at any time, use the :q command (or press Q followed by Y). Online Readers Debian Recommended Links http://www.debian.org/ http://forums.debian.net/ Ubuntu Recommended Links http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://ubuntuforums.org/ https://help.ubuntu.com/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ http://fridge.ubuntu.com/ http://ubuntunews.org/ http://www.psychocats.net/ http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ Linux Recommended Links http://www.fsdaily.com/ http://lxer.com/ http://www.raiden.net/ http://www.linuxtoday.com/ http://www.ubuntuhq.com/ http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.tuxmachines.org/ CMus offers seven different views, which can be accessed using the 17 keys. Here they are: 1 Library, the default view mode, including two tabs (artists/albums and songs in currently selected album) 2 Sorted Library, which provides a playlist view allowing to jump to specific tracks (this view can be customized in view mode 6 3 Playlist, editable playlist 4 Play Queue, which displays the track queue 5 File Browser 6 Filters, a list of userdefined filters for the library 7 Settings, which displays key bindings and commands Library view mode The two views which you will usually use are the first and the second one. Let's have a look at the first one: 3/3/2016 Guide to CMus - Music Player for Your Terminal | Tu The left tab contains the artists and their albums. To navigate through those use the Up/Down arrow keys or and K, and press Space to expand the tree view. Whenever you select an album the tracks will appear in the tab to the right side, so you can use the TAB key to switch between the two tabs and Enter to start playing the currently selected song. Here are several useful keyboard shortcuts: TAB to switch between the two tabs X to start playing V to stop playing C to pause playing to decrease volume by 10% + to increase volume by 10% Sorted Library view mode The second view mode (Sorted Library) allows you to quickly jump to a song by using the / (slash character), and then type words from the song you want in any order. Press Enter twice to play the song or N to search for the next occurence. CMus commands and keyboard shortcuts Using Vistyle keyboard shortcuts, CMus allows you to use commands which are prepended by : and it supports autocompletion using TAB. Here are several useful commands (a complete list is available in view mode 7 or in the manual page): :set softvol=true enable software volume control :add /path/to/music/dir will add all the audio files from /path/to/music/dir to the library :clear will clear the playlist :save playlist.pls will save the current playlist :load playlist.pls will load playlist.pls :set statusdisplayprogram=/path/to/scrobbler will set the script to use for Last.fm song submission Using themes (color schemes) CMus supports several color schemes using the :colorscheme command. For example, :colorscheme xterm white looks like this: 3/3/2016 Guide to CMus - Music Player for Your Terminal | Tu Enabling Last.fm and Libre.fm Song Submission Although CMus doesn't comes with an integrated Last.fm song submission feature by default, the official website provides several scripts which can do it, and activating any one of them is quite easy. For our example we will use the Perl script, which is available here under the name postfm. First copy the script from this address preferably inside your ~/.cmus directory, and then edit it with a text editor to fill in your Last.fm username and password. Replace yourlogin and yourpassword with their appropriate values: our %rc = ( login => "your-login", password => "your-password", Next, make the script executable, e.g.: chmod 755 ~/.cmus/post-fm Now let's enable the script. The newest version of CMus comes with the :set statusdisplayprogram command which allows you to set which script you want to use for scrobbling tracks. So to enable it, use the following command: :set status-display-program=~/.cmus/post-fm Your track submission should be enabled now. Notice that for Libre.fm you can uncomment the line which reads # host => 'turtle.libre.fm',, just under where you filled in the username and password fields. HowTo: Compile and Install CMus in Debian 5.0 Lenny First, fetch the needed dependencies: apt-get build-dep cmus Download the source tarball from the official website (direct link here) and uncompress it: tar -xjf cmus-v2.3.3.tar.bz2 To compile and install issue: ./configure make make install The last one as root. Alternately you can specify a different installation prefix and install as normal user, e.g.: ./configure --prefix=/home/USER/usr make make install In which case you should make sure /home/USER/usr/bin is in your $PATH. 3/3/2016 Guide to CMus - Music Player for Your Terminal | Tu If you have suggestions or corrections to these tutorials, please contact me at craciun.dan@tuxarena.com or leave a comment on the TuxArena website. Copyright (C) Craciun Dan 2010 under the terms of Creative Commons AttributionShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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