• In case your favourite package manager provides an up to date version of cmus (see list of cmus packages), installation is straightforward, e.g.
  • At around June 2008, he discontinued development of cmus, which resulted in a fork named "cmus-unofficial" in November 2008.
  • Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. - Releases · cmus/cmus.
  • To open cmus in a specific directory, you can use the following command ... The path/to/directory argument specifies the directory you want cmus to open in.
  • Now that you’ve installed cmus, you’ll have to point it to wherever your music files are stored on the hard drive. To launch cmus, simply type “cmus” at the shell.
  • cmusfm is a program that tracks your music with last.fm’s free API. It’s called on everything track change, so I suppose it’s quite light on the battery. cmus-control.
  • Description. Command. quit cmus. :q. ... Use software volume control. softvol=true. We can save our preferences to ~/.config/cmus/rc. For instance, in Linux
  • Cmus can be controlled externally through a unix-socket with cmus-remote. This makes it easy to control playback through an external application or key-binding.
  • Great, let’s see how this media player works now. Using CMUS player. First, open a Terminal and launch the player by typing the following command
  • cmus Command Examples. 1. Open cmus into the specified directory (this will become your new working directory)