CLI music player
About 2 months ago I was flipping through a couple Linux magazines at borders (I had 2 and one was Mandriva specific - I'm fairly sure it was in this magazine. The other was something like 'Linux Magazine' or 'Linux Digest'.) and in one of these magazines they had a failry positive review of a command line audio player. It was very feature rich and had just about everything you expect out of a GUI player like WinAmp or Xmms. The only other thing that I really remember about it was that it was a 3 character name derived from a 4 character word (e.g. duk instead of duck). I know it's a long shot, and it'd be hard for me to be more vague, but I'm hoping someone might have a good guess on what the name of it was. I've been holding out expecting it to pop up in a google search, but no dice yet. I've found several ones that look similar, but this one had especially caught my eye.
Thanks for any help. |
I'm guessing it's Juke, which apt tells me is a curses-based music player. Note that this is different from Juk, which is a KDE music organizer.
|
mpg123 or mpg321
|
No, it's not, but it got me to a page listing Linux audio players (command line players included whcih even wikipedia didn't have). It's called Moc (which I read, myabe incorrectly, like Mock). So, as it would turn out, all my searchers were a mere vowl off. I can't confirm the site as it's blocked here at work (a good indication that it's what I'm looking for). This should be the link to the official site:
http://moc.daper.net/ (I pulled up the page by IP, but it must be set up on a virtual host) here's the site that listed the players: http://www.michael-prokop.at/blog/?p=453 lots of good looking players (including all the common GUI ones). Page is worth a look |
im having a really good time with the musicplayerdaemon and mpc on the cli, maninly because i cant get through hundreds of obscure dependancies with the gui ones.
Its really worth a look though, once set up you can use a client to start playing music and easily switch between X and the cli without any loss in playback http://www.musicpd.org/ |
I'd herd of mpd before, but never looked it over until now. I think I'll have to check it out. If I like it well enough I'll have to do a lot more head-scratching about what hdd should go in what machine.
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:41 AM. |