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+date = "2009-01-12T17:01:00-07:00"
+title = "C*MUS - A music manager for the terminal"
+slug = "cmus-a-music-manager-for-the-terminal"
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+C\*MUS - A music manager for the terminal
+=========================================
+
+[C\*mus](http://cmus.sf.net/) is an advanced music juke-box for \*inx
+and Window operating systems. It can handle the modern audio file
+formats: FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis, MP3 , Wav, AAC , MP4, .mod, .s3m, .mpc, mpp,
+.mp+, .wma, and .wv . It also can deal with many different types of
+audio output systems: ALSA, libao, ARTS, OSS, Sun, and WaveOut on
+Windows. The typical features of an electronic juke-box are supported
+like play lists and random/shuffle play, in addition to easily switching
+between playing from the library, an artist, or a single album with a
+simple keystroke.
+
+C\*Mus is pretty painless to install from source. The website lists the
+build dependencies with links.
+
+En-queuing
+----------
+
+One of the features I really enjoy and use is the en-queue function. I
+tend to use this two ways. The first is when I am listening to a song,
+and want to listen to similar songs, I go find them in my library, and I
+queue them up with a simple keystroke. A dynamic play-list, if you will.
+Then, I can simply create a more permanent playlist from this temporary
+list.
+
+The second way is using the helper program cmus-remote to be able to
+queue up tracks from a different terminal, or from a script. My
+podcatcher program (bashpodder) will queue up the podcasts it just
+downloaded for me, so I can listen to them first thing in the morning.
+
+Keystroke and CLI
+-----------------
+
+C*Mus is developed to be driven via keystrokes. The default mapping is
+set up to be comfortable for those use are familiar with VI but, it is
+very easy to remap the keys to make it more comfortable. C*Mus will
+automatically save the current settings on a clean exit. The default
+mappings for selecting and updating views, moving through songs forward
+and backwards in small and large increments, adding to play list and
+queue lists.
+
+Filters
+-------
+
+One of the very powerful features is simple filters. You can set a
+filter for your 80's Metal Bands or your Classical music. Many of the
+common tags can be used for filter on. Things like filename, artist,
+album, title, genre, discnumber, tracknumber, date (year), duration
+(seconds), and tag.