Simple, Fast, and Geeky Console-based Audio Players for Linux | Linux Today

Simple, Fast, and Geeky Console-based Audio Players for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 4, 2009

“For now, get rid of that hefty music players with graphical
user interface (GUI) and try these simple, fast, and rather geeky
console-based audio players:

“Music on Console
Music on Console (simply known as MOC) is perhaps the most popular
ncurses-based console audio player for Linux. It is very easy to
use and it is highly configurable. If you are familiar with
Midnight Commander file manager then you will have no problem using
MOC since their command structure and window layouts are the
same.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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