EmacsWiki: Music Players (original) (raw)

See CategoryMusic for ways to make music using Emacs.

MP3/Ogg-Vorbis/Other music players (in alphabetical order)

Bongo – beautiful, flexible and usable media player, developed in parallel to EMMS 2.0
EMMS – The Emacs Multi-Media System
Mpc – major mode providing an interface to the MPD music player daemon, which aims to look and behave a bit like Rhythmbox. Bundled with Emacs 23.2 and later.
simple-mpc-mode – provides an interface to MPD, focuses on simplicity, UI inspired by Mingus and mu4e
Mingus – MPD client based on libmpdee, contains, but not limited to, extensive playlist editing. Written by Niels Giesen (pft)
Listen.el – Aims to provide a simple audio/music player for Emacs. It should “just work,” with little-to-no configuration, have intuitive commands, and be easily extended and customized. Offers queues, library browser, MPD database searching, and more.
muu - A music player built on GNU Emacs and EMMS. It is a keyboard-driven, file/filesystem-oriented music player. muu is heavily inspired by the music player MOC.

Amarok – remote control the giant wolf
Bookmarks as Playlists using MS Windows file associations – simple player, nothing to do
Cantata – Full-featured, Qt5-based MPD client
EmacsAlsaPlayer – "Music Without Jolts" - an extremely lightweight yet versatile Ogg/MP3 player featuring soft volume fading, unlimited playlists (implemented as directories of symbolic links, which is great for other purposes such as burning CDs) and global control of your music from anywhere within Emacs (no need to switch buffers). Oh… and there’s a pretty comprehensive manual in a variety of formats too
GIMME – XMMS2 client on Emacs
The Idiot Jukebox – (http://quimby.gnus.org/jukebox/jukebox.html)
libmpdee – An elisp library to interface with MPD, a music player daemon. Contains a small interactive interface as well. Written by Ramkumar
MonK – Multimedia Object Navigator Kluge - Interface for reading mp3, CD audio, ogg and more
Mpg123 – interface to mpg123 and ogg123 – works well!
MPRIS – interface to media player via dbus, http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/MPRIS
MOC – Music On Console, powerful and easy to use. ncurses interface is based on Midnight Commander’s. Works quite well if launched from term. Here is a little package to control it from within Emacs: moc-player
MpthreePlayer – Interface to mpg123 by JeanPhilippeTheberge
tiny-xmms – http://dishevelled.net/elisp/tiny-xmms.el

LyricMode starts an ogg123 process and parses the timing information that comes back from it, letting you insert and edit synchronization tags