NCMPCPP Commands

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Reference: https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/

Install ncmpcpp

$ sudo apt-get install ncmpcpp

Using ncmpcpp

Simply run this on your host running Music Player Daemon (MPD) over your ssh session

$ ncmpcpp

or run on one host connecting to MPD on another host, like this 

$ ncmpcpp --host=192.168.1.44 -p 6600

and you’ll see a ncurses-powered graphical user interface in your terminal.

Press 4 and you should see your local music library, be able to change the selection using the arrow keys and press Enter to play a song.

Doing this multiple times will create a playlist, which allows you to move to the next track using the > button (not the right arrow, the > closing angle bracket character) and go back to the previous track with <. The + and – buttons increase and decrease volume. The Q button quits ncmpcpp but it doesn’t stop the music. You can play and pause with P.

You can see the current playlist by pressing the 1 button (this is the default view). From this view you can press i to look at the information (tags) about the current song. You can change the tags of the currently playing (or paused) song by pressing 6.

Pressing the \ button will add (or remove) an informative panel at the top of the view. In the top left, you should see something that looks like this:

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Pressing the r, z, y, R, x buttons will respectively toggle the repeat, random, single, consume and crossfade playback modes and will replace one of the – characters in that little indicator to the initial of the selected mode.

Pressing the F1 button will display some help text, which contains a list of keybindings, so there’s no need to write a complete list here. So now go on, be geeky, and play all your music from your terminal!

Reference: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

Keys - Movement

  • Up k - Move cursor up
  • Down j - Move cursor down
  • [ - Move cursor up one album
  • ] - Move cursor down one album
  • { - Move cursor up one artist
  • } - Move cursor down one artist
  • Page Up - Page up
  • Page Down - Page down
  • Home - Home
  • End - End
  • Tab - Switch to next screen in sequence
  • Shift-Tab - Switch to previous screen in sequence
  • F1 - Show help
  • 1 - Show playlist
  • 2 - Show browser
  • 3 - Show search engine
  • 4 - Show media library
  • 5 - Show playlist editor
  • 6 - Show tag editor
  • 7 - Show outputs
  • 8 - Show music visualizer
  • = - Show clock
  • @ - Show server info

Keys - Global

  • s - Stop
  • p - Pause
  • > - Next track
  • < - Previous track
  • Ctrl-H Backspace - Replay playing song
  • f - Seek forward in playing song
  • b - Seek backward in playing song
  • - Left - Decrease volume by 2%
  • Right + - Increase volume by 2%
  • t - Toggle space mode (select/add)
  • T - Toggle add mode (add or remove/always add)
  • | - Toggle mouse support
  • v - Reverse selection
  • V - Remove selection
  • B - Select songs of album around the cursor
  • a - Add selected items to playlist
  • ` - Add random items to playlist
  • r - Toggle repeat mode
  • z - Toggle random mode
  • y - Toggle single mode
  • R - Toggle consume mode
  • Y - Toggle replay gain mode
  • # - Toggle bitrate visibility
  • Z - Shuffle playlist
  • x - Toggle crossfade mode
  • X - Set crossfade
  • u - Start music database update
  • : - Execute command
  • Ctrl-F - Apply filter
  • / - Find item forward
  • ? - Find item backward
  • , - Jump to previous found item
  • . - Jump to next found item
  • w - Toggle find mode (normal/wrapped)
  • G - Locate song in browser
  • ~ - Locate song in media library
  • Ctrl-L - Lock/unlock current screen
  • Left h - Switch to master screen (left one)
  • Right l - Switch to slave screen (right one)
  • E - Locate song in tag editor
  • P - Toggle display mode
  • \ - Toggle user interface
  • ! - Toggle displaying separators between albums
  • g - Jump to given position in playing song (formats: mm:ss, x%)
  • i - Show song info
  • I - Show artist info
  • L - Toggle lyrics fetcher
  • F - Toggle fetching lyrics for playing songs in background
  • q - Quit

Keys - Playlist

  • Enter - Play selected item
  • Delete - Delete selected item(s) from playlist
  • c - Clear playlist
  • C - Clear playlist except selected item(s)
  • Ctrl-P - Set priority of selected items
  • Ctrl-K m - Move selected item(s) up
  • n Ctrl-J - Move selected item(s) down
  • M - Move selected item(s) to cursor position
  • A - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • S - Save playlist
  • Ctrl-V - Sort playlist
  • Ctrl-R - Reverse playlist
  • o - Jump to current song
  • U - Toggle playing song centering

Keys - Browser

  • Enter - Enter directory/Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist/select it
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit directory name
  • e - Edit playlist name
  • 2 - Browse MPD database/local filesystem
  • ` - Toggle sort mode
  • o - Locate playing song
  • Ctrl-H Backspace - Jump to parent directory
  • Delete - Delete selected items from disk
  • G - Jump to playlist editor (playlists only)

Keys - Search engine

  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it/change option
  • Space - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • y - Start searching
  • 3 - Reset search constraints and clear results

Keys - Media library

  • 4 - Switch between two/three columns mode
  • Left h - Previous column
  • Right l - Next column
  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit tag (left column)/album (middle/right column)
  • ` - Toggle type of tag used in left column
  • m - Toggle sort mode

Keys - Playlist editor

  • Left h - Previous column
  • Right l - Next column
  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist/select it
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit playlist name
  • Ctrl-K m - Move selected item(s) up
  • n Ctrl-J - Move selected item(s) down
  • Delete - Delete selected playlists (left column)
  • C - Clear playlist except selected item(s)
  • Ctrl-P - Set priority of selected items
  • Ctrl-K m - Move selected item(s) up
  • n Ctrl-J - Move selected item(s) down
  • M - Move selected item(s) to cursor position
  • A - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • S - Save playlist
  • Ctrl-V - Sort playlist
  • Ctrl-R - Reverse playlist
  • o - Jump to current song
  • U - Toggle playing song centering

Keys - Browser

  • Enter - Enter directory/Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist/select it
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit directory name
  • e - Edit playlist name
  • 2 - Browse MPD database/local filesystem
  • ` - Toggle sort mode
  • o - Locate playing song
  • Ctrl-H Backspace - Jump to parent directory
  • Delete - Delete selected items from disk
  • G - Jump to playlist editor (playlists only)

Keys - Search engine

  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it/change option
  • Space - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • y - Start searching
  • 3 - Reset search constraints and clear results

Keys - Media library

  • 4 - Switch between two/three columns mode
  • Left h - Previous column
  • Right l - Next column
  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit tag (left column)/album (middle/right column)
  • ` - Toggle type of tag used in left column
  • m - Toggle sort mode

Keys - Playlist editor

  • Left h - Previous column
  • Right l - Next column
  • Enter - Add item to playlist and play it
  • Space - Add item to playlist/select it
  • e - Edit song
  • e - Edit playlist name
  • Ctrl-K m - Move selected item(s) up
  • n Ctrl-J - Move selected item(s) down
  • Delete - Delete selected playlists (left column)
  • Delete - Delete selected item(s) from playlist (right column)
  • c - Clear playlist
  • C - Clear playlist except selected items

Keys - Lyrics

  • Space - Toggle reloading lyrics upon song change
  • e - Open lyrics in external editor
  • ` - Refetch lyrics

Keys - Tiny tag editor

  • Enter - Edit tag
  • y - Save

Keys - Tag editor

  • Enter - Edit tag/filename of selected item (left column)
  • Enter - Perform operation on all/selected items (middle column)
  • Space - Switch to albums/directories view (left column)
  • Space - Select item (right column)
  • Left h - Previous column
  • Right l - Next column
  • Ctrl-H Backspace - Jump to parent directory (left column, directories view)

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