Comments on: Howto: Use cplay like a pro

By: t

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:15:01 +0000

reupload the pictures please

By: Howto: Install cplay for the XO « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: Install cplay for the XO « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:38:52 +0000

[...] Start up cplay, and if you like, create a symbolic link from your home directory to the /media folder, which saves a step when adding songs to the playlist. If you need a primer on how to use cplay, you can get one here. [...]

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Tiled window manager « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:26:33 +0000

[...] a low- or non-graphic environment, maybe coding or relying on terminal programs (like rtorrent or cplay or others ). But otherwise, it’s not as exciting as I suspected it would [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:26:32 +0000

Is there any way to crossfade songs in cplay like in ncmpc?

Thanks

By: DukeXC

DukeXC — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:31:57 +0000

Hey, I ran across your site looking for a bittorrent client, and although I eventually changed clients, rTorrent was very useful for a while as I re-organized my RAM priorities.

On linking to cplay and trying it I was simply amazed by the power its direct, no-nonsense interface provided, and had been using it quite happily until I very recently ran into sound quality troubles with the program - understandable as this guide is for weaker machines, but for an audiophile that slight hiss and crackle is a serious killer.

While cplay is an incredible player, I’d suggest also giving cmus or moc a try. moc (music on console) is extremely similar to cplay but with some added functionality, a slightly more attractive interface and pristine sound quality. cmus, although not to my tastes, is actually a full-fledged music library app in curses, with some very interesting customizeability options.

I love the site, I’ve found a plethora of useful apps here - I just thought I’d add my two cents, as I have since noticed a huge number of underappreciated terminal apps.

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links for 2007-09-14 « Stand on the shoulders of giants — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:27:29 +0000

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By: Erkkimon

Erkkimon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:11:02 +0000

A really good howto! Cplay can be used remotely using ssh and screen.
1. Log in on the target computer using ssh. Note that the target computer needs to have ssh daemon running and you must have ssh installed on your client computer.
2. Start cplay in screen, like “screen cplay”. Note that you must have screen installed on the target computer. Then close your terminal emulator.
3. Now your player should still play music. If you want to edit playlist or something, log in again on your target computer and attach the screen in your terminal emulator commanding for example “screen -rx”.

I’m not sure if I got what you meant with remote control in the howto but hopefully this helps you and people who read this howto!

By: james

james — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:56:59 +0000

Hi K.Mandla,

Thanks for your quick reply!

Selecting the directory is an option, another possibility which comes in handy here is “i” for selecting the inverse. This way I can select a few songs/directories/.m3us I don’t want to hear and then select the inverse - which is what i want to add.

Shuffling the playlist is s when the playlist is displayed.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:19:46 +0000

Hi James. I believe if you select the directory with the spacebar, you can add the entire substructure with the ‘a’ key. From there, check the help screen for the shuffle key (I’ve forgotten it, since I don’t shuffle up my tunes very often). Have fun!

By: james

james — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:06:25 +0000

Is there a way to add the whole directory to the playlist to play the music in the directory in shuffle mode?

Thanks for the article!