Practical Music Search

Introduction

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

Download

Download Practical Music Search 0.41, released September 6th, 2009.

Binary packages. If you want to maintain a package for a different distro, please e-mail me at <kimtjen -AT- gmail -DOT- com>.

Thanks to Eugeniy Mikhailov for the Debian package.

Practical Music Search requires the glib2 and ncurses libraries to work.

Features

Basic MPD commands: play, pause, stop, add, remove, et cetera.
Simple and powerful playlist management: playlist, library and custom playlists.
Custom key bindings, colors and columns.
Command-mode, much like Vim.
Copy songs between playlists.
Create, save and delete playlists.
Arbitrary display fields and playlist sorting.
Quick movement: jump to next artist or next album in a keystroke.
Add or play entire albums or artists at once.
Linear or random playing through any playlist.
Option to have playback following cursor position.
Adds repeat-1 functionality.
Jump to currently playing song.
Quicksearch.
Windowlist to display all playlists.
Help screen to show all key bindings.
Regular expression matching.

Development

If you would like to test the latest sources or contribute to development, you can access the source code via the Git repository:

git clone git://pms.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pms/pms

The Subversion repository has been discontinued and will not be updated with new development history. However, you can still browse the old Subversion repository here.

PMS depends on glib2 and ncurses to compile. If the boost regular expression library is installed, regular expression searches are enabled.

Reporting bugs

Please report any bugs to our Trac bug tracker on SourceForge. If you submit a bug report, it is helpful to run PMS in debug mode and log the output, and then attach the log to the bug report:

$ pms -d 2>error.log