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, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

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.
• Filter library or any playlist by search string.
• 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.