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GuidetoCMusMusicPlayerforYourTerminal

CMusisafree,powerful,terminalbased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

HowTo: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

Vilikekeyboardshortcuts

UsingCMus

Firstofall,wewilladdseveralsongstothemedialibrary.CMususesVistyle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).

CMusofferssevendifferentviews,whichcanbeaccessedusingthe17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userdefined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:

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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Vistylekeyboardshortcuts,CMusallowsyoutousecommandswhichareprependedby:anditsupports

autocompletion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statusdisplayprogram=/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:

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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postfm.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yourloginandyourpassword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statusdisplayprogram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.

HowTo: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.

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