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Questions tagged [cmus]

For questios about cmus (C* Music Player), the ncurses based console audio player.

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How can I create a playlist and add songs to it in cmus?

Question's in the title, really. Cmus documentation is pretty light on how to create new play lists, add songs to them, and then play them. I'd like to know step-by-step how to do that.
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How can I start a playlist from the command line in cmus?

I would like to start playing a play list from cmus with a command line. This is to create a bash alias that would start playing a specific playlist. I tried cmus pl-import playlist_name But it doesn't import the playlist. This question How can I…
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How can I add the marked track to a playlist in cmus?

I'd like to quickly add the currently marked track (in view 1, 2 or 4) to my playlist of favorites with a key-bindable command in cmus. The man page doesn't reveal a winning strategy. How to do it? :add -p only seems to accept paths as…
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How do I confirm cmus is using alsa?

I've searched the net and came up with the configuration below. but I don't think my cmus install is using alsa. How do I know? Well, I installed strawberry and have configured it to use alsa. If I play youtube on the browser and then try playing on…
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Is there a way to trigger the closing of one program by closing another? A shell script perhaps?

So, my situation is this: I have created a launcher, key bindings and an alias that opens GLava and CMus in a drop-down terminal at the same time, using this shell script: #!/bin/bash c=$(ps -e | grep -c xfce4-terminal) if [ $c -gt 0 ] …
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Stop playing after queue ends in cmus

I'd like to be able to queue songs and play the queue and I would also like for the playback to end when the queue ends. Currently another song is played when the queue ends (I haven't quite been able to figure out how that song is chosen).
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How to take control of existing terminal programs via ssh (cmus)

So I have a terminal with cmus running on my main PC at my desk. I want to ssh to this main PC from my laptop and "take control" of cmus remotely, so that i can adjust volume, pause and play, choose the song, etc. Note: I don't want to stream music…
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cmus hiding artist songs

I'm using cmus with Debian Buster. In the artists list (view 1), I see a single Al Green, with a single song. If I filter :filter artist="Al Green" I see Al Green repeated twice, first with the previously visible song (from the Pulp Fiction album),…
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