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Taking a screenshot from TTY is harder than expected, so I SSH'd into my own machine and took a screenshot from TTY in the SSH session (way easier)!
I'm using Textmode WINdow environment , aka twin.
There's also a util package here.
Note: It supports mouse using gpm.
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File manager = Midnight Commander (mc) , 2 pane file manager.
System information = Screenfetch
Music Player = MoC , best player there is.
Web Browser = Links
Audio Software = Alsamixer
MS-Dos 6.22 running under dosemu2 in console mode.
I personally use MOC (Music On Console) to play music. Although I don't know what advantages ncmcpp has, for I have never used it. But MOC is simple and gets the job done pretty well. I would recommend it.
Oh, and Midnight Commander comes in pretty handy. It's a simple ncurses based file manager. It reminds me of Gentoo.
Well, for example, I run a music player in the terminal. Since it seems like you want to be using the terminal a lot, I'd like to recommend guake, which is a terminal that drops down when you press a hotkey (just like the console in Quake and many other video games).
You could also do the free, roughly 1h-long introduction to the command line at www.codecademy.com.
Not to bash that player, but it's the complete opposite of what I want. I don't want album covers nor playlists.
What I want is a simple and small player I point to a folder and let it play whatever is in there like 1by1 (I fell in love with it when I still used Windows, but sadly it's only available for Win and Android) or MOC, which is what I've been using for years now. These kind of players apparently appeal only to a very, very small number of users, though.
Oh no, play is just for one-off sound/music playing :P MPD with a console front-end (I assume it also has graphical front-ends) would definitely qualify. I personally use cmus if you'd like another example. Also Music on Console is another.
MOC - music on console: An ncurses console audio player designed to be powerful and easy to use
I like that:
It has a very simple interface with no fluff.
It uses your existing directory structure instead of requiring a custom library, and it has a very effective filesystem navigation just the keyboard.
Playing all songs on a directory is the default; you just pick the first song on it and it will automatically play all songs on the directory.
Continuous gapless play.
It supports many formats. It can also play video formats (only audio is played), so there's no need to keep a separate audio-only file if you download a music video.
I use Music on Console. It runs in the terminal, but can also run in the background as a server. I have my music directory set in my home folder with folders for podcasts (which are downloaded in the background using podget), playlists (which can be created by using MOC), a symbolic link to a network drive mounted on boot, a symbolic link to my downloads folder, and then a genre folder which has /artist/album (year)/ subfolders and simply named files (track title). I use puddletag to fix tags and rename files.
I use to run clementine too, but my current setup is so simple that I doubt I'll ever go back.
I used xmms for a long time, mostly because it was skinnable and I carried over a lot of Winamp skins from my Windows days.
When it stagnated I followed beep media player for a while, mostly for the same reason. I occasionally break down and use audacious from time to time, but find it a little obtuse on some points that should be simple.
My main player is moc, although cmus sometimes wins my attentions. More and more I find I don't need the dependencies and idiosyncrasies of a graphical player just to get my groove on.
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moc supports it. It uses a transparent daemon-client model behind the scenes.
If you have an open instance of mocp, you can start and stop the music using mocp --toggle-pause or simply mocp -G.
You can query the state from the command line too: mocp -Q %state will echo the state (one of PLAY PAUSE STOP or nothing [mocp not running]).
I really dig MOC, it's a terminal application so it might not be what you're looking for, but it's simple, does exactly what it's supposed to, and will output to jack, ALSA or OSS. In other words, fuck pulseaudio :)
What are your thoughts on a command-line based music player? Was thinking we could developing something like these.
We could use ncurses for the interface, and have it work along side Linux's music player daemon. Playlist support, equalizer, maybe even find a way to get album art to display on the console.
It seems like it could be manageable given the short amount of time we have.
The command for launching it is mocp from the command line. My understanding is that there is a conflict with "moc" with something in LXDE, so the compromise is to run it with mocp. When it loads, the left pane is a file manager, the right is the playlist. "h" will load up help and the commands.
I recommend checking this out to get a feel for what it can do. http://moc.daper.net/documentation
I use moc, also via curses, instead. Mpd is really geared towards having a dedicated "music server" controlled via one or more devices, where you put all your media in a particular directory on that system. If I download something with audio, I'd like to just be able to play the thing.
Mpd does do a good job of being a remotely-controlled dedicated music server, though, if that's what you're looking for -- if I were setting up, say, a dedicated home audio system running Linux, mpd would definitely be the piece of software to use.
Rhythmbox has worked okay for me but was never anything exceptional. I kinda liked the layout with Banshee but it ran horribly slow on my machine. I just keep all my music organized and tend to listen to albums at a time though so I don't really need a library in my media player. Lately I've been using MOC to browse and play music through the console and GTKpod for managing my ipod. I haven't really explored all the ins and outs of MOC but for building basic playlists and listening through albums it's worked pretty damn well. Plus you can close the console it's running in and it'll keep playing in the background and you can control it through ALT+F2 or whatever other console you have open.
Thanks, I will give it a try. Right now I am trying MOC (http://moc.daper.net/). With this you can set up shortcuts to folders and even specify external command - say the ambient music plays, I pusz F2 and suddenly there is a monster roar.
G3 has 233 Mhz right ? Ok, try Debian PPC .
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install With LXDE and Midori for web browsing , or Opera . For music, mocp (works under a terminal, but if has menus just like an old cellphone :P ) http://moc.daper.net/node/373
Please post screenshots if you managed to install on that machine, I am curious :)
Here you have the Debian ppc CD on Torrent