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cmus.md

cmus and vim

author : Matthias Günther date : 2017/01/19

cmus

• small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems

Benefits of cmus

• easy to use directory browser
• customizable colors
• instant startup, even with thousands of tracks

Browse file system and add tracks

• 5 ... go into the browse mode
• a ... add selection to library
• :add ~/music ... same as 'a'
• D ... remove selection from library

Artist view

• 1 ... go into the mode
• <space> ... see albums of the authors

Library view

• 2 ... library view (sorted)

Play commands I

• b ... plays next track
• z ... plays previous
• c ... pause, continue

Play commands II

• x ... restart track
• p/P ... change order of entries

Play commands statuschanges I

• m ... cycle through play modi (all, album artist)
• M ... switch modes without interrupting the currently-playing song
• r ... repeat the playlist when the end is reached

Play commands statuschanges II

• s ... shuffle (see S in the commandline)
• C ... shuffle continue playing the next song

Fill queue and playlist

• y ... add the selected song to playlist (3)
• e ... mark the songs to the queue (4) (FIFO)

vim-cmus I

• :CmusCurrent ... shows the information of current song
• :CmusPrevious ... play previous song
• :CmusNext ... play next song

vim-cmus II

• :CmusPause ... halt playing the current song
• :CmusPlay ... continue playing song
• :CmusStop ... halt playing and go to the beginning