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cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

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Cmus not changing displayed artist name after updating metadata

OCD: Moosh & Twist recently came out with a new album. When I add it to my cmus library, it shows the artist as "Moosh & Twist". Their other albums display properly as "OCD: Moosh & Twist" I figured this was a simple id3tag issue so I used this…
kalenpw
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Bind media keys to cmus

I'm wondering how to bind the media keys of my laptop to cmus play/pause next/previous. I've tried to use the bind common audioplay player-pause and variance commands to simply try to do what I want. I can't seem to figure out the correct 'key…
Asitis
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Enable fullscreen by default for Desktop Entry of Terminal applications

I have created this Desktop Entry for terminal application cmus. [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=cmus GenericName=C Music Player Comment=Music Player for Unix-like…
udiboy1209
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CMUS is not working on 15.10

I've been using 14.04 LTS for the last few weeks and have just updated to 15.10 CMUS had been working fine on 14.04, but ever since I upgraded, it just doesn't work. I've installed and removed cmus several times, but I can't get it to start.
IWO
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cmus doesn't add m4a files

I am using cmus 2.6 (built from source, as the version in the repository was giving segfault on adding music), and it just doesn't detect m4a tracks. I checked the plugins, and the aac plugin is indeed installed. I'm using Ubuntu 14.10.
hoodakaushal
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Cmus not responding to keyboard on Ubuntu 16.04

cmus is not responding to keyboard input on Ubuntu 16.04.3. Neither restarting cmus nor restarting the machine have helped.
MHG
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cmus ignore ID3 tags, rely on folder structure

I have a directory structure that looks like this: Music └── Artist_1 | └── Album_A | └── track_w.mp3 └── Artist_2 | └── Album_B | └── track_x.mp3 └── Podcasts └── Podcast_A | └── podtrack_y.mp3 └── Podcast_B …
John L. Godlee
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How to run custom command by pressing a key

I have cmus music player installed and I really like it. I need to run a command by pressing a key, for example CTRL+F so it will open browser and search a lyrics for currently playing song. The command might be something…
Michal Przybylowicz
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No output plugins when installing cmus from source

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and I am trying to install the latest version of cmus (2.7.1) from the source code by running ./configure, make, and make install in the cmus-2.7.1 folder. However, when I do so, it seems that it is not installing output…
Mik
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Is it possible to get Sound Menu integration for cmus?

I really like the terminal media player cmus. I would like to have Ubuntu Sound Menu integration with cmus, so I can skip tracks, see the album art, etc. Is this possible?
Exeleration-G
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Playing WMA files with cmus produces static and distortion in 14.04

I use cmus as a media player and after upgrading to 14.04, all WMA files in my collection have become unplayable. When I try playing them, I get static in my left speaker and a staticky distorted version of the music in my right speaker. How can I…
erjiang
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Ubuntu shortcuts won't allow to set media keys for custom commands

I'm trying to set my keyboard's media keys to control my command line player cmus via cmus-remote (pause, prev, next). This works fine with any other keys but the media keys will not register when I'm prompted to push the desired key for a custom…
stukev
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Cmus list playlists

I want to list all my playlists in cmus, but the playlist view only shows the contents of the current one. Here is an issue on github for this feature: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/431 According to this issue it had a working implementation,…
CostaricanSaerh
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Cmus can’t see mp3 files

I’m running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and i3-gaps on an old MacBook Pro. I’ve been trying to get Cmus working for a little while, I have moved one of my mp3 files to my downloads to try and get it playing. It shows up in terminal and in files, but on cmus it…
sharkattack234
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Problem installing plyr package

I'm trying to install lyvi (command line lyrics viewer) from here. So during installing plyr which one of the dependencies I got that issue: Collecting plyr Downloading…
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