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cmus is a command line music player written in C#.

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Change "library view" to show album names instead of artist and track pane doesn't show tracks?

In cmus is there a way I can show the album's name instead of the artist? Currently my library looks partially like this: also, based off that image, shouldn't the "Track" part on the right show the ...
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Is it possible to edit tags with cmus?

Is it at all possible to edit tags for .ogg files with cmus?
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Why can't I change the volume in cmus?

When I try to change the volume in cmus on MacOS using + or -, I see an error message: Error: can't change volume: Operation not supported by device This is annoying because, even though I can ...
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Where does cmus keep its library and cache files?

I just started using the cmus console music player. man cmus-tutorial tells how to add music to its "library", and says: Note: cmus does not move, duplicate or change your files. It just ...
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Cmus needs output_plugin reset when speakers are plugged in?

I've installed cmus (http://cmus.sourceforge.net/) both via the source code and dependencies, compiled myself, and via Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) standard install (it installs all the ...
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cmus playing status in format_title

is it somehow possible to display the playingstatus of cmus like head -n1 <<< $(cmus-remote -Q) in the format_title? I am using sway and was hoping that i could use that window name to ...
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CMUS doesn't run correctly in TMUX session

As you can see in the screenshot, cmus doesn't display correctly inside tmux. Normally, starting cmus directly works fine. But I ask because I want to use the detachable hack. I can't figure out ...
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Keep cmus from changing terminal title

Whenever I run cmus on Terminal.app, it insists on changing the terminal title to the currently playing song. And since cmus is in a separate tab almost all the time, it looks quite ugly: And when I ...
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Missing md5.h header as I install cmusfm scrobbler for cmus on OS X

I'm trying to install cmusfm to be able to scrobble tracks in cmus. I am on OS X 11 and when I run the ../configure --enable-libnotify command from the installation guide for cmusfm I get the ...
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Audio tags added with ffmpeg do not show up in cmus

I run the following command: $ ffmpeg -i BabiYarHumor.wav -map 0 -y -codec copy -write_id3v2 1 -metadata "artist=Dmitri Shostakovich" -metadata "genre=Classical" -metadata "...
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Cmus add modplug

I use cmus on my BigSur, and I install the libmodplug and libmikmod. my cmus still doesn't support mod cmus --plugins: Input Plugins: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmus/2.9.1/lib/cmus/ip mad: Priority: ...
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cmus not working on Arch Linux

When I try to run cmus from the terminal , I got this bhaskar@ArchLinux_12:18:39_Mon May 20:~>cmus cmus: /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0: version LIBSYSTEMD_243' not found (required by cmus)
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