MOC
Music On Console is a lightweight music player similar to MPD, but unlike it, MOC comes with an interface and its server does not support remote access.
Installation
Install moc-pulseAUR or moc-pulse-svnAUR for the development version. To use the pulseaudio driver, go to #Using PulseAudio.
Front-ends
- mocicon — GTK panel applet to control MOC
- eXo — Qt frontend to MOC, supports scrobbling
Configuration
Sample configuration files can be found in /usr/share/doc/moc/. On mocp first run, the ~/.moc/ directory is created. To configure, copy the examples to it and edit accordingly.
To use MOC with v4.1 OSS, see OSS#MOC.
To change the default key bindings, see /usr/share/doc/moc/keymap.example.
Using PulseAudio
Locate the variable SoundDriver and add PULSEAUDIO: to the front.
SoundDriver = PULSEAUDIO:JACK:ALSA:OSS
This ensures that PulseAudio gets loaded with first priority. Listing other sound drivers after this are fallbacks when the previous ones are not available.
To change directories with the arrow keys uncomment in ~/.moc/config:
Keymap = keymap
Edit the following in ~/.moc/keymap:
go = ENTER RIGHT go_up = U LEFT #seek_forward = RIGHT #seek_backward = LEFT
To speed up navigation and detach, set the following in ~/.moc/config:
ReadTags = no ShowTime = no TagsCacheSize = 0
systemd service
Enable this service for the respective user:
/etc/systemd/system/moc@.service
[Unit] Description=MOC server ConditionPathExists=/usr/bin/mocp After=network.target sound.target [Service] RemainAfterExit=yes User=%I ExecStart=/usr/bin/mocp -S ExecStop=/usr/bin/mocp -x WorkingDirectory=/home/%I/ [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Themes
Several themes for the player GUI are available. To list the available themes and set one, use hotkey T.
To set one to permanent use the configuration file ~/.moc/config.
Theme = laras_theme
A selection of example themes can be found in /usr/share/moc/themes/, the installation of mocp-themes-gitAUR adds more of them.
Since themes are just text files, it is easy to create new ones. User defined themes are expected in ~/.moc/themes/.
Example theme file:
background = white black frame = white black window_title = white black directory = white black selected_directory = white black reverse playlist = white black selected_playlist = white black reverse file = white black selected_file = white black reverse selected_info = white black reverse marked_file = white black bold marked_selected_file = white black reverse info = white black marked_info = white black bold marked_selected_info = white black reverse status = white black title = white black bold state = white black current_time = white black bold time_left = white black bold total_time = white black bold time_total_frames = white black sound_parameters = white black bold legend = white black disabled = white black enabled = white black bold empty_mixer_bar = white black filled_mixer_bar = white black reverse empty_time_bar = white black filled_time_bar = white black reverse entry = white black entry_title = white black error = white black bold message = white black plist_time = white black
Usage
Run mocp to start the server and interface. Some useful default shortcuts (press h for more):
| Start playing at this file or go to this directory | Enter
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| Pause | Space or p
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| Play next file | n
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| Play previous file | b
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| Silent seek forward by 5s | ]
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| Silent seek backward by 5s | [
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| Switch between playlist and file list | Tab
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| Add a file/directory to the playlist | a
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| Add a directory recursively to the playlist | |
| Delete an item from the playlist | d
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| Clear the playlist | |
| Increase volume by 1% | >
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| Decrease volume by 1% | <
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| Increase volume by 5% | . (period)
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| Decrease volume by 5% | , (comma)
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| Set volume to 10% | Alt+1
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| Set volume to 90% | Alt+9
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| Detach MOC from the server | q
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| Quit | |
Ctrl+z can be used instead.To shut down the server, run the mocp -x command.
Scrobbling
mocp-scrobblerAUR is a Last.fm (and Libre.fm) scrobbler for MOC with support for now-playing notifications, daemonization and cache. It only depends on Python 3.
hostname from post.audioscrobbler.com to turtle.libre.fm.Copy the example file to your user configuration directory:
mkdir ~/.mocpscrob/ cp /usr/share/doc/mocp-scrobbler/config.example ~/.mocpscrob/config
Edit ~/.mocpscrob/config to add your login and password. The password variable will be replaced with password_md5 on the first run. Its value will be the original value hashed using MD5 algorithm. If you want to change password, just add again password with you new password, and password_md5 will be replaced.
To scrobble tracks, start mocp-scrobbler as daemon before mocp. You can also use an alias:
alias mocp='/usr/bin/mocp-scrobbler.py -d; mocp'
In January of 2016 last.fm updated their password requirements, with all new and updated passwords requiring the inclusion of one of the following characters !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~, or a space. This is known to cause an authentication error with mocpscrob configurations which specify passwords not conforming to these new specifications. Changing one's password and updating the ~/.mocpscrob/config password accordingly resolves this issue.
Troubleshooting
MOC fails to start
If MOC fails to start, it is most probably because of something wrong in ~/.moc/. You can try to fix it, or simply delete the whole folder.
Strange characters
If you see strange-like characters displayed instead of the normal lines (vertical lines to separate space, etc.), you may have a font set incompatible to MOC. Either change the respective font, or edit .moc/config to use ASCII for drawing lines:
ASCIILines = no
FATAL_ERROR: Layout1 is malformed
If MOC crashes with this error, try adding either line to .moc/config:
Layout1 = directory(0,0,50%,100%): playlist(50%,0,100%,100%)
or
Layout1 = directory(0,0,50%,100%): playlist(50%,0,FILL,100%)
See original report and Debian bugs.
Bluetooth not working unless it is connected before MOC is started
When using pipewire, MOC defaults to JACK which appears to be the cause of this issue. Simply changing from jack to ALSA solves this issue through changing the following value within the configuration file:
Default value:
JACK:OSS:ALSA
New value:
ALSA:OSS:JACK
MOC picks the first working audio driver, thus ALSA will be picked first. This should fix the bluetooth issues.