Practical Music Search

Powerful Vim-like frontend to the Music Player Daemon

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Introduction

Practical Music Search is an open source client for the Music Player Daemon, written in C++ and ncurses. The target audience are power users who need an MPD client that is highly configurable. PMS features a simple but powerful interface similar to Vim, and runs on (at least) Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

Features

  • Basic MPD commands: play, pause, stop, add, remove, and so on.
  • Supports MPD IDLE mode.
  • Simple and powerful playlist management: queue, library, and playlists.
  • Customize key bindings, colors, layout, and columns.
  • Command-mode, much like Vim.
  • Copy songs between playlists.
  • Create, save and delete playlists.
  • Filter library or any playlist by search string.
  • Quick movement: jump to next artist or next album in a keystroke.
  • Search within search results.
  • Add or play entire albums or artists at once.
  • Linear or random playing through any playlist.
  • Option to have playback following cursor position, or vice versa.
  • Jump to currently playing song.
  • Regular expression matching.