MOC 2.5.0-alpha3
Based on ncurses, MOC (music on console) is a popular, text-based audio player which can play various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, MP4, WMA and WAV. The release I'm going to talk about in this article is 2.5.0-alpha3, as it comes with Debian Lenny.
Default interface
By default, the interface consists of two panels, with a file browser to the left and the playlist to the right. You can start adding tracks to the playlist by navigating to a music directory and using the a key. To clear the playlist, use C (that's uppercase). Here are several useful keyboard shortcuts for using MOC (notice that uppercase and lowercase matters):
a add music files to the playlist
C clear the playlist
Right Arrow seek forward
Left Arrow seek backward
Space play/pause currently selected song
s stop playing
S shuffle playlist
R repeat playlist
Tab switch between panels
, increase volume by 5%
. decrease volume by 5%
Q quit mocp
? get help
MOC does not seem to include Last.fm song submission by default, but there is a script on the official website called lastfm-mocp, here (direct download link), which uses the Last.fm submission daemon (package lastfmsubmitd in Debian).
The configuration file for MOC is ~/.moc/config, but it is not needed by default. It also supports configurable keybindings.
MOC also supports various themes, which you can select by using T. To add more themes if the default ones are not enough, copy them inside the ~/.moc/themes/ directory. See several screenshots below:
Transparent theme
Green theme
I liked that MOC can also run as a 'server' by detaching the player using q. Overall, it is a pretty nice audio player for the shell, it's lightweight and provides a very good and easy to use alternative to other players like CMus or mp3blaster.
6 comments:
i've been using this for a few years, neat program!
I like moc because it caches streams which means that even with our lousy network @ work I have no interruption to the music.
Orpheus? (http://konst.org.ua/en/orpheus)
I use mpd/ncmpcpp exculsively... it has lots of fancy features but is still fast and lightweight.
http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/
I have used MOC for ages. I too find the server feature to be very useful, just open a 'run' window anywhere and type in what you want to do (skip track, adjust volume, stop...) I have also installed the imocp.pl irssi plugin ( http://tinyurl.com/imocp-pl ) which will allow you to display what you are listening to in the current channel, as well as controlling it.
i discovered it thru crunchbang. absolutely love it. no gui music player, no mpd.
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