Cmus

Created Thursday 16 February 2017

Cmus is a CLI music player.

Installation

$ pacman -S cmus

Scripts

# You can extend Cmus functionality with scripts; https://github.com/cmus/cmus/wiki
# Here are some of the favorites^

Desktop Notifications

# Requires notify-send (Dunst)
# https://github.com/cmus/cmus/wiki/status_diplay_notify_send.py
# Download and place the script in ~/.config/cmus/status.py and make it executable
$ chmod a+x ~/.config/cmus/status.py

# In Cmus, navigate to the Settings screen (7) and search for (///) status_display_program//
# Define it to our script; status_display_program=/home/stick/.config/cmus/status.py

Usage

# There is 7 different screen in Cmus, navigate these with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

Adding music to your Library

# Navigate to the fifth screen, 5
# Then add the folder/song to your library with a
# This should move your highlight one folder/song down.
# This means the folder/song you just added is available in your library.

Basic Controls

# Move to your Simple View screen, 1

Navigation

# Switch between Artist/Album and Track window with <Tab>
# To expand a Artist/Album folder, use Space

Playing Tracks

# Play track with Enter
# Pause/Play with c
# Toggle shuffle with s
# Next track with b
# Previous track with z

Searching

# Search for Tracks, Artist or Albums with /
# Next result with n
# Previous result with N

Jump in Tracks

# Backward/Forward 10sec with Left / Right
# Backward/Forward 1min with < / >

Volume Control

# Volume Up/Down with - / +

Queue

# Add a track to Queue with e

Tips and Tricks

# Some sweet additions

Music Visualizer

# Cava can be used to nice CLI visualization of the music playing
$ yaourt -S cava

# Then edit ~/.config/cava/config and uncomment these two lines;

method = pulse
source = auto

# Usage
# You can Increase/Decrease sensitivity with Up / Down
# Increase/Decrease bar width with Left / Right
# Change bar color with c
# Change background color with b