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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

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask media-sound/cmus

Configuration

Set the password for remote control:

CODE

set password=password

Set output plugin:

CODE

set output_plugin=pulse

Possible settings:

• pulse
• alsa
• oss
• sndio

Usage

As a server

Start in a detached app-misc/screen session

user $screen -d -m cmus --listen 0.0.0.0

The 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.

We will be ably to enter commands from standard input such as:

CODE

player-next
player-play
player-pause

Invocation

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Troubleshooting

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TODO:

look at how tmux or screen handle keys