On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 schrieb Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>:
Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it.
Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the initial one to add my music directory : # add files, short for ':add ~/music' :a ~/music
:add command: As I said complicated vi like commands.
I did say some people like me only need it once. I put my music only in one directory, I don't think it's so uncommon.
In MOC you have a file and directory list on the left and a play list on the right side. You just need to move the selection bar with the cursor keys and press a for add to add a file or a directory recursively to the play list. And to remove a song from the playlist you just need to press d for delete.
Toggling between the two lists is possible with tab.
Btw., I'm not a friend of those libraries. I organize my audio files on my hard disk with directories and subdirectories. One directory for the interpreter and one subdirectory for the album.
With those libraries I usually have chaos and have much more problems finding my files, because they don't work correctly and/or the tags are not filled correctly and consistently.
http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
After that, all you need is 3 keys : space to expand an artist and view the albums, enter to play what you want, tab to switch between album view and track view if you want a particular track.
By the way, in the main/default mode, you don't see directory, you see artist/albums from tags. There are 7 views in cmus. Press keys 1-7 to change active view. Library view (1)
And these 5 shortcuts can be useful too : x player-play c player-pause v player-stop C toggle continue s toggle shuffle
In MOC: Enter play p pause s stop n next b back S toggle shuffle Somehow much more intuitive, isn't it?
Maybe you should look up where z x c v b are in a qwerty layout and what they do, and it will suddenly looks more intuitive and practical. If you're not on qwerty, you can rebind them.
You cannot pretend you want keyboard controls, and not open the man page to learn the few keys you need :)
I read the man page. But in MOC you just press h to toggle between the player and a quick help about the shortcuts. MOC has a man page, too, but not for the shortcuts. It's more for infos about configuration or using it with lirc.
Settings view (7) Lists keybindings, unbound commands and options. Remove bindings with D or del, change bindings and variables with enter and toggle variables with space.
And MOC has a progress bar, shows the file format, the bitrate and some other infos.
I have no need for a progress bar, this is enough for me, both more informative and shorter : 00:07 / 03:14 I don't know if it can display file format and bitrate, I don't care much and I have other ways to find this information the rare times I need it.
I don't know if cmus has them, but MOC has themes.
It has themes too. I have nothing against MOC, I like it too, just wanted to clarify a few things about cmus in case some people want to give it a try. No big deal, really.