command line music player for flac files

[balanga]

Can anyone recommend a command line music player that can handle flac files?

 

[gotnull]

You can take a look at 'cmus' or 'moc'

 

[Alain De Vos]

sox

 

[kpedersen]

mplayer and cvlc are fairly large but run well from the command line.

 

[a6h]

Any players with audio/flac in theirs "Library Dependencies:" can play FLAC, e.g. audio/moc and audio/cmus.

I use both -- in CLI (Virtual Console) and also in GUI (Terminal Emulator). "cmus" plays music all the time, and I use "moc" when I need to play some random audio files. I did some personal comparisons/benchmarking years ago, and I found cmus was less resource intensive. I'm not sure that it's stil the case, but I think it is.

 

[Phishfry]

In my opinion audio/sox is one of the best audio tools for command line.

SoX - Sound eXchange | HomePage

It is not player orientated but it provides plenty of technical data.