Comments on: Bonus points for cmus-remote

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:20:32 +0000

Here’s a script I wrote to toggle the pause/play on cmus and start cmus and begin playing if cmus isn’t running. I have it mapped to a global hotkey so that I have instant access to my music anywhere. Oh and replace gnome-terminal with your favorite terminal (xterm):

#!/bin/sh # Tests if cmus is running and starts it if it isn't. # Then it toggles play/pause. # Oh and this command will break if you rename it to # something containing "cmus".

if ! ps ax | grep -v grep | grep cmus > /dev/null then gnome-terminal -e cmus fi sleep .05 cmus-remote -u

By: Ben Winston

Ben Winston — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:48:27 +0000

thank you so much for this post! i literally have on my todo list “figure out if cmus works with sockets”. i guess i can cross it off now

cmus-remote has proven incredibly useful already, as i run a command-line install of arch on a netbook, and spend a large part of my time in vim. with my recent revelation of the :sh command (how did i not know this earlier?!), combined with cmus-remote aliases, it’s simple to control my music running in a detached screen session from (nearly) within vim.

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A built-in diary « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:38:44 +0000

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By: ancientforest

ancientforest — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:38:50 +0000

I’ve been a huge cmus fan since your first mention of it here… I don’t really need a remote-controllable / daemon-based player, and cmus is so wonderfully quick and efficient with pretty much any format, even AAC and streaming radio. Still my favorite player.

By: ErSandro

ErSandro — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:39:11 +0000

I don’t know why but i aleays found mpd heavier than moc and cmus, but i really like the way it manages music library with ncmpcpp.

All in all these are three great pieces of software and is possible to control remotely all of them.

By: Jonathan D. Page

Jonathan D. Page — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:17:27 +0000

I may have asked this before, but have you looked at MPD? It is pretty lightweight, and is actually designed to be interfaced with over the network. It binds to a port and can be controlled from there using a program like mpc, ncmpc, ncmpcpp, or even telnet.