muse

muse is a stupid command line mp3 player for OS X. It is built in Objective-C on top of the AVFoundation framework. The only external library required is ncurses that comes bundled with OS X.

muse is released under the MIT license.

Since version 0.3, muse is a bit smarter and you can read multiple mp3 files using a wildcard (such as *.mp3) on the command line or passing several files as arguments.

Since version 0.4, muse accepts wasd commands:

w will quit muse,
a will play the previous song,
s will toggle between play and pause,
d will play the next song.

Installation

You will need OS X 10.7+ and the latest XCode command line tools (with LLVM 4.0+ as I rely on automatic synthesize for the properties).

One-line install

curl -L https://raw.github.com/zr0z/muse/master/muse-install.sh | sh

Building from git

Grab a copy of the source code:

git clone https://github.com/zr0z/muse.git

Build and install it:

make && make install

muse will be installed in your /usr/local/bin.
Depending on your permissions, you may have to use sudo make install to finalize the installation.

Usage

usage: muse [-h|--help] <music files>

Roadmap

Directory support.
JSON playlist.
Commands (repeat…).

Changelog

0.4, wasd controls for quit, next, pause/play, previous; switch to automatic synthesize for the properties; add ncurses for keys and screen handling.
0.3, Multiple songs support, rewrite code according to The Code Commandments best practices for Objective-C coding.
0.2, switch to a more classical Objective-C OOP structure.
0.1, initial release, quick and dirty Objective-C command line application.