On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800
> schrieb Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over
>> different types files.
>
> Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I need to
> first finish my degree to be able to use a program then there's
> something wrong with it. If I add a directory to the playlist, there
> are no tracks listed in the playlist, only the directory, and the
> tracks are played in random order, there's no progress bar, etc. And to
> do simple things, you first need to enter complicated vi like
> commands. I hate vi, btw. And my impression is that the sound quality
> of MOC is still a bit better.
>
> I doubt that one need the other decoders. At least I haven't missed a
> decoder in MOC.
>
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
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
You cannot pretend you want keyboard controls, and not open the man
page to learn the few keys you need :)
