Comments on: 10 Console Music Players for Linux

By: Dennis Kibbe

Dennis Kibbe — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:44:27 +0000

Emacs users have EMMS (Emacs Multimedia System) for playing music within the Emacs text editor.

By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:04:42 +0000

It’s my favorite too. The moment I tried it one year ago or so I felt like it’s the player I’ll like the most for CLI.

By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:03:40 +0000

Now that’s definitely a lot of votes for ncmpcpp :) I’ll give it a try, maybe make a review.

By: drprometheus

drprometheus — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:52:34 +0000

Ncmpcpp Rules!!!

By: yoander

yoander — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:16:34 +0000

I’ve used CMUS for a long while and it’s rock solid, full featured and well documented music player. Support a lot of formats and sounds servers (Pulse audio, ALSA and maybe others). It’s in heavy development and for vim fans simulate vim key bindings.

By: g99

g99 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:42:25 +0000

I think you’d like ncmpcpp a lot. It is highly customizable and has a nice tag editor which I haven’t found in other console-based music players. In my opinion it is not just comparable to CMus, it beats it.

By: Quake_Sinatra

Quake_Sinatra — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:35:33 +0000

+1 ncmpc – by far the best console client i have used, and extremely light and quick

By: dr

dr — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:05:55 +0000

ncmpcpp needs to be included. It’s an ncurses based client for MPD, and it’s my favorite audio player by far . . . I even prefer it over GUI players.

By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:24:28 +0000

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this one. Looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2006?

By: 6r00k14n

6r00k14n — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:08:38 +0000

You missed one. Orpheus. It is a basically a text-based interface for mpg123 and ogg123, and based on my experience, it is a better choice than mp3blaster, particularly when dealing with pecular soundcards.