General discussion

It's been already said that you can't finish search by nothing else but esc or enter, but now that we have queue (great stuff!) this is even more imporant.

I have a rather long playlist, and want to add something to queue. So i search for it and ... ? I'm hosed. I can either discard the search or play it now!

Also - it would be great if we could search through help screen.

2.4.4 works fine with ALSA. Trying with OSS client display in red 'Can't read from mixer' and keyboard response is slow. However it plays. How to get rid of error message?

Hello everyone,

First let me say that MoC is fantastic: it's by far the best music player - console or gui based - I've ever used.

But I've run into a snag. I have a couple audio rips from some DVDs: they are 24-bit, 96khz, mostly two-channel, one with six, ripped in .WAV format. Now, MoC handles the higher rates just fine, but two of the files which are respectively 3-gigs and 2.3 gigs do not appear in the MoC directory listing at all. The files play fine through mplayer, but MoC simply doesn't even recognize them. I encoded the 3-gig file into flac - producing a 1.5-gig file - and that appears in MoC and plays just fine.

Is there a limit to the file sizes MoC can handle (at possibly 2 gigs), and if so why? Or am I entirely on the wrong track and not supplying enough information for anybody else to have an idea of what's going on? (Incidentally, I'm running Ubuntu Linux 9.04 with the last stable MoC release, 2.4.4.)

Thanks - and it's still the best player I've ever used.

Please, tell me, why mocp sometimes looks like this http://img61.imageshack.us/i/zrzutekranu1t.png/ ?
Looks like a bug, app shouldn't behave like that.

I'm trying to launch different instances of moc using Jack (no problem with Alsa)

in short :
$ jackd ...

$ mocp

$ mocp -M ~/.moc2

then jackd outputs :
"cannot create new client; moc already exists
cannot complete client connection process"

I cannot play 2 tracks at the same time using jack :/

any clue ?

Can i save the current state of playlists: songs, current track and it current progress?

I have a strange problem while reading m4a files:

It doesn't give me any error however it directly skip to the next song.
I also noticed to there was a "boost" in the RAM and SWAP usage which I can cancel only by stopping the daemon.

I'm using moc under Ubuntu 9.04 with the ffmpeg plugin.
Am I the only having this problem?

Thank you

One feature I was wanting in MOC was a "stop at this track" flag, but after installing the 2.5.0-alpha3 version, I realized I could do this with the OnSongChange handler, so here's what I did, in case anyone else wants this feature...

First, you might need to set up your ExecCommands to run from an external script for this to work - that's how I do things, and I haven't tried it otherwise, but I don't think the redirect works from within MOC, so something like

ExecCommand10 /home/me/.moc/stop_here %f

in your config, and then .moc/stop_here script does

echo "$1" > ~/.moc/stopfile

and also in config:

OnSongChange = /home/me/.moc/check_stopfile %f

and finally .moc/check_stopfile does

if [ "$1" == "$(cat ~/.moc/stopfile)" ]
then mocp --pause && rm ~/.moc/stopfile
fi

This is a simplified version of what I did (all my ExecCommands are in one script) and it could probably be improved, but it seems to work quite well, and I'm happy with the results. The only catch is that you have to select the song you want to stop *before* when setting the stop point, rather than the last track to play as in certain other music players.