cMusix

A terminal-based music player built in C.
Made for those who want to jam without the RAM slam.

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About

cMusix is a minimalistic command-line music player, ensuring that the system It's built specifically for Arch-based systems, but the source is portable enough to compile on other *nix systems too.

The idea is simple: you give it a music file, it plays it — no GUI, no menus, no distractions.
Perfect for anyone who just wants music while staying fully in the terminal.

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Features

• Supports common audio formats: .wav, .mp3, .ogg
• Fast and light (Because its in C)
• Works from the terminal – great for tiling WM users
• Open for anyone to use or modify

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Requirements

You’ll need SDL2 and SDL2_mixer installed before compiling. The installation script will help you download that, if you dont have. If you are unsure, you may want to see it for yourself

Installation:

sudo pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_mixer
git  clone https://github.com/pandgey/cMusix.git
cd cMusix/
make install
make

The program assume that you store your music in Music directory

If you are unsure where is your Music folder, i made an algorithm to check for it as well. Assuming you are in cMusix folder

cd folderLocator
gcc -o musicFinder musicFinder.c
./musicFinder

To add to PATH:

Assuming that you are in cmusix folder, run the command below:

sudo cp cmusix /usr/local/bin/

Tested on

• Arch-Linux

Contributions

Found anything broken or have a new ideas for this? Feel free to shoot me a message or just open an issue

License

No license headache, just use it. It’s me, my code, and the beat. You’re free to remix it however you want you know what? imma just put license just to protect myself, idk just protection :3 (ps. you dont have to credit me, but always appreciated!)