Music On Console (MOC) is a simple music player for the shell.
Installing it is easy:
$ sudo apt install moc
To start it:
$ mocp
MOC has a two-pane interface. On the left is the directory hierarchy of your system. You navigate it to add music files to the playlist. The files in the playlist are displayed in the right pane.
Navigate files and directories in the panes: up and down arrow keys
Switch between panes: tab
Add files inside a directory to playlist: A
Add a file to playlist: a
Delete a file from playlist: d
Play a file: Enter
Pause: Space
Play next file: n
Play previous file: b
Decrease or increase volume: , and .
Clear playlist: C
Toggle play in shuffle order or not: S
Toggle repeat playlist or not: R
To quit the player (playback continues in background): q
To stop playback and kill the player: mocp -x
The full list of keyboard shortcuts can be seen here.
You can also configure MOC by placing a file named config in ~/.moc/. To see the type of configuration options you can specify in this file see /usr/share/doc/moc/examples/config.example.gz.
Tried with: MOC 2.5.0 and Ubuntu 14.04
Tagged: moc
