Music players come in all shapes, colours and sizes. Modern ones have a number of common features such as support for multitude of file formats, gapless playback, player queue, search, playlist filters, ability to play mp3 and ogg streams, and a customisable appearance. Released under the GPLv2 and written in C, cmus or C* Music Player is a nifty little CLI utility that supports all these features and more.
While most modern command-line applications make use of Python, Ruby, or Go, the choice of C for should already give you an idea about the project’s age. First released just a little over 17 years ago, follows the old Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. That one thing being that it’s the only music player you’ll ever