Comments on: MPlayer as a music player

By: Audio players for the console « Motho ke motho ka botho

Audio players for the console « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:20:09 +0000

[...] have audio playback capability. Here, top to bottom, are alsaplayer with the -i text flag, MPlayer playing audio files, and VLC’s ncurses interface — which I must admit, I find very [...]

By: Daniel Michalik

Daniel Michalik — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:33:34 +0000

I’d like to throw in the mplayer patch I wrote for cplay long time ago. See website. I’d like to hear if anyone out there is still using cplay – I’d be interested in doing development for cplay. It works fine for me though, so there isn’t really anything big to change right now. I’d like to hear further opinions.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:58:24 +0000

mpd + sonata = win

By: orpheus

orpheus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:12:36 +0000

did you tried orpheus?

its plain simple, no search, no mouse, no bling bling

but, it plays your music

more info on http://thekonst.net/en/orpheus

By: anarkokatten

anarkokatten — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:20:41 +0000

I was also suprised nobody mentioned cmus – the best musicplayer I know of. And I had to look into the manual as well, but the only commands I use are X for play, C for pause, 3 for playlist view and “:add ” to add.

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:54:28 +0000

I’m surprised someone hasn’t thrown out cmus. i absolutely love it (after having spend like 2 days figuring out the user interface), but can honestly say that i prefer it (it’s ncurses) to any other graphical music player i’ve used (iTunes (not hard), rhytmbox, audacious, beep, xmms, …)

yeah, if you like rtorrent, you’ll like cmus.

anyhow, worth having a look at. (albeit, i’d never heard of mocp, and am going to have a look at it now)

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:13:42 +0000

I hacked partial mplayer support into cplay: http://pastie.org/404165

Doesn’t support seeking, or finding out how long the song is though. Also, you may have to edit it to add some file extensions to its regexp on line 1679.

I’d very much like to give cplay decent mplayer support, it’s on my list.

By: damaged justice

damaged justice — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:05:33 +0000

Another vote for mocp here. But mplayer is still the best video player

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:21:19 +0000

Another vote for moc, its simply awesome

By: binarycodes

binarycodes — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:52:38 +0000

gotta show some love for my fav music player here
mpd + ncmpcpp / sonata