User:jepio/cmus
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cmus is a ncurses based music player with support for remote control. It uses plugins to support a multitude of media formats and works with many audio systems.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for media-sound/cmus Ncurses based music player with plugin support for many formats
+flac
|
Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec |
+mad
|
Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend) |
+unicode
|
Add support for Unicode |
+vorbis
|
Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec |
aac
|
Enable support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio |
alsa
|
Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) |
ao
|
Use libao audio output library for sound playback |
cddb
|
Access cddb servers to retrieve and submit information about compact disks |
cdio
|
Use libcdio for CD support |
debug
|
Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces |
discid
|
Enable reading the ID of the inserted CD |
elogind
|
Enable MPRIS support via sys-auth/elogind |
examples
|
Install examples, usually source code |
ffmpeg
|
Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support |
jack
|
Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit |
libsamplerate
|
Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate |
mikmod
|
Add libmikmod support to allow playing of SoundTracker-style music files |
modplug
|
Add libmodplug support for playing SoundTracker-style music files |
mp4
|
Support for MP4 container format |
musepack
|
Enable support for the musepack audio codec |
opus
|
Enable Opus audio codec support |
oss
|
Add support for OSS (Open Sound System) |
pidgin
|
Install support script for net-im/pidgin |
pulseaudio
|
Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire) |
sndio
|
Add support for media-sound/sndio |
systemd
|
Enable MPRIS support via sys-apps/systemd |
tremor
|
Use libivorbis from media-libs/tremor instead of media-libs/libvorbis |
wavpack
|
Add support for wavpack audio compression tools |
Emerge
root #emerge --ask media-sound/cmusConfiguration
Set the password for remote control:
CODE
set password=password
Set output plugin:
CODE
set output_plugin=pulse
Possible settings:
- pulse
- alsa
- oss
- sndio
- jack
- ao
Usage
As a server
Start in a detached app-misc/screen session
user $screen -d -m cmus --listen 0.0.0.0The default setting is to listen on port 3000
user $cmus-remote --server 127.0.0.1:3000 --passwd password Note
For some reason passing localhost to cmus-remote does not work.
For some reason passing localhost to cmus-remote does not work.
We will be ably to enter commands from standard input such as:
CODE
player-next
player-play
player-pause
TODO: