MOC 2.5.0 Alpha2

MOC (music on console) is a console audio player with a simple ncurses interface in playmp3list style
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

You just need to select a file from some directory using the menu similar to Midnight Commander, and MOC will start playing all files in this directory beginning from the chosen file. There is no need to create play lists like in other players.
If you want to combine some files from one or few directories on one play list, you can do this. The play list will be remembered between runs or you can save it as an m3u file to load it whenever you want.

Need the console where MOC is running for more important things? Need to close the X terminal emulator? You don't have to stop playing - just press q and the interface will be detached leaving the server running. You can attach it later, or you can attach one interface in the console, and another in the X terminal emulator, no need to switch just to play another file.

MOC plays smoothly, regardless of system or I/O load because it uses the output buffer in a separate thread. It will not cause gaps between files, because the next file to be played will be precached while playing the current file. Internet stream (Icecast, Shoutcast) are supported. Key mapping can be fully customized.

Supported file formats are: mp3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, Speex, WAVE, AIFF, AU (and other less popular formats supported by libsndfile. New formats support is under development.

Main features of MOC:

Simple mixer.

Color themes.

Searching the menu (the play list or a directory) like M-s in Midnight Commander.

The way MOC creates titles from tags is configurable.

Optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv().

OSS, JACK, and ALSA output.


What's New in This Release:

Add SID plugin using libsidplay2. (Hendrik Iben)

Add Wavpack support. (Alexandrov Sergey)

Add support for GNU screen title. (Jonathan Derque)

The 'a' command can also add a directory to the playlist.

Add file duration %d (duration in xx:yy format) and %D (duration as number of seconds) options to OnSongChange command.

Add OnStop configuratipon option that allows to run an external command on Stop event.

OnSongChange reads tags from the cache.

Fix and a possible segfault when OnSongChange option is not defined and memory allocation functions usage.

Fix OnSongChange description in config.example.

Fix the A command for '..' directory (Debian Bug#416102).

Pass the environmential variables to the child process in OnSongChange.

Fixed a race condition when handling tags read to the tags cache.

Fix reading tags using tags_cache_read_add() in case when tags in the cache are not everything we need.

Fix displaying the playlist panel when the width of the terminal is an odd number.

Fix zombie processes (from OnSongChange) cleanup.

Fix a memory leak when handling OnSongChange.

Fix a crash when a file is precached and user requests playing a different file.

Prevent situations when two threads/processes reads tags for the same file at a time.

Prevent adding internet strams to the tags cache.