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Is there a better mplayer command line interface, or another good CLI music player?

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Mar 15, 20263017 views
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I generally prefer to do things on the command line when I can. Mplayer is a great tool for playing all sorts of media, but the command line interface sucks. Some things I'd like to see in a CLI media player would include: Clean output - easy to understand, not cluttered by a bunch of stuff that's …

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I've settled on using (Music Player Daemon), with a CLI interface called . This combination works quite well, and there are some excellent companion apps to do things like audioscrobbling ( ), and controlling it with media buttons ( ). It's perhaps …

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