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MOC extras and additional software:

About MOC (information, HOWTOs):

Optional libraries required by MOC:

  • MAD - High-quality MPEG audio decoder, used for decoding MP3. It also contains libid3tag.
  • Vorbis - Fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format.
  • FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec. From the home page: Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without anyloss in quality.
  • Speex - Patent-free audio compression format designed for speech.
  • Musepack with taglib - Audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality.
  • libsndfile - A library to read various audio formats like WAV, AIFF, SND etc.
  • libcurl - for Internet streams.
  • libresamplerate - for resampling.
  • JACK - low-latency audio server.
  • FFmpeg - Library for decoding various audio formats (WMA, ReadAudio, (.ra), AAC, MP4 in MOC).
  • librcc - Library that can fix encoding of MP3 files with ID3 tags v1/1.1.

Other ncurses console players:

  • playmp3list - MOC's interface is based on this mp3 player.
  • mp3blaster - The most powerful player for console (beside MOC) I've ever seen, but in my opinion it has very unclear interface.
  • PyTone - Python based player with internal and external pluggable players (like mpg123, xmms).
  • cplay - a curses front-end for various audio players.
  • Open Cubic Player - Old audio player, originally for DOS.
  • CMus - Powerful music player with vi-style commands and interesting interface.
  • mplay - Quite powerful frontend for MPlayer.