On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 > schrieb Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> 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.
