MOC(1) Music On Console MOC(1)NAME
MOC - Console audio player
SYNOPSISmocp [OPTIONS] [FILE|DIR ...]
DESCRIPTION
MOC is a console audio player with simple ncurses interface. It sup‐
ports OGG, WAV, MP3 and other formats. Just run mocp, go to some
directory using the menu and press enter to start playing the file.
The program will automatically play the rest of the files in the direc‐
tory.
With no options and no file arguments the program begins in current
directory, or in MusicDir if the StartInMusicDir option is set in the
configuration file. If you give a directory on the command line, MOC
will try to go there. If a playlist is given, then it is loaded. With
multiple files, playlists or directories, everything will be added to
the playlist recursively (including the contents of any playlist
given). (Note that relative paths in playlists are resolved with
respect to the directory of the playlist, or of the symlink being used
to reference it.)
OPTIONS
If an option can also be set in the configuration file the command line
overrides it (but see the -O option for the list-valued configuration
options exception).
-D, --debug
Run MOC in debug mode. The client and server log a lot of
information to debug files. Don't use this; the server log is
large. This is only available if MOC was compiled without
--disable-debug.
-S, --server
Run only the server and exit.
-F, --foreground
Implies -S. Run the server in foreground and log everything to
stdout.
-R NAME[:...], --sound-driver NAME[:...]
Use the specified sound driver(s). They can be OSS, ALSA, JACK,
SNDIO or null (for debugging). Some of the drivers may not have
been compiled in. This option is called SoundDriver in the con‐
figuration file.
-m, --music-dir
Start in MusicDir (set in the configuration file). This can be
also set in the configuration file as StartInMusicDir.
-a, --append
Append files, directories (recursively) and playlists given
after command line options to the playlist. Don't start the
interface.
-c, --clear
Clear the playlist.
-p, --play
Start playing from the first item on the playlist.
-f, --next
Request playing the next song from the server's playlist.
-r, --previous
Request playing the previous song from the server's playlist.
-s, --stop
Request the server to stop playing.
-x, --exit
Bring down the server.
-P, --pause
Request the server to pause playing.
-U, --unpause
Request the server to resume playing when paused.
-G, --toggle-pause
Toggle between play and pause.
-k [+|-]N, --seek [+|-]N
Seek forward (positive) or backward (negative) by N seconds in
the file currently being played.
-T THEME, --theme THEME
Use a theme file. If the path is not absolute, the file will be
searched for in /usr/share/moc/themes/ (depends on installation
prefix), ~/.moc/themes/ and the current directory.
-C FILE, --config FILE
Use the specified configuration file instead of the default. As
this file can specify commands which invoke other applications
MOC will refuse to start if it is not owned by either root or
the current user, or if it is writable by anyone other than it's
owner.
-O NAME[+]=VALUE, --set-option NAME[+]=VALUE
Override configuration option NAME with VALUE. This option can
be repeated as many times as needed and the option name is not
case sensitive. Most option values are set before the configu‐
ration file is processed (which allows the new values to be
picked up by substitutions); however, list-valued options are
overridden afterwards (which gives the choice of whether the
configured values are replaced or added to).
See the example configuration file (config.example) for a
description of the options available.
Examples: -O AutoNext=no
-O messagelingertime=1 -O XTerms+=xxt:xwt
Note that MOC does not perform variable substitution as it does
for values read from the configuration file.
-M DIR, --moc-dir DIR
Use the specified MOC directory instead of the default. This
also causes the configuration file from that directory to be
used. This can also be specified in the configuration file
using the MOCDir option.
-y, --sync
This copy of the interface will synchronize its playlist with
other clients. This option is called SyncPlaylist in the con‐
figuration file.
-n, --nosync
This copy of the interface will not synchronize its playlist
with other clients (see above).
-A, --ascii
Use ASCII characters to draw lines. (This helps on some termi‐
nals.)
-i, --info
Print the information about the file currently being played.
-Q FORMAT_STRING, --format FORMAT_STRING
Print information about the file currently being played using a
format string. Replace string sequences with the actual infor‐
mation:
%state State
%file File
%title Title
%artist Artist
%song SongTitle
%album Album
%tt TotalTime
%tl TimeLeft
%ts TotalSec
%ct CurrentTime
%cs CurrentSec
%b Bitrate
%r Rate
It is also possible to use variables from the FormatString con‐
figuration file option.
-e, --recursively
Alias of -a for backward compatibility.
-h, --help
Print a list of options with short descriptions and exit.
-V, --version
Print the program version and exit.
-v [+|-]N, --volume [+|-]N
Adjust the mixer volume. You can set (-v 50) or adjust (-v +10,
-v -10).
-t OPTION[,...], --toggle OPTION[,...]
-o OPTION[,...], --on OPTION[,...]
-u OPTION[,...], --off OPTION[,...]
Followed by a list of identifiers, these will control MOC's
playlist options. Valid identifiers are shuffle, repeat and
autonext. They can be shortened to 's', 'r' and 'n' respec‐
tively.
Example: -t shuffle,r,n
would toggle shuffle, repeat and autonext all at once.
-j N{s|%}, --jump N{s|%}
Jump to some position in the current file. N is the number of
seconds (when followed by an 's') or the percent of total file
time (when followed by a '%').
Examples: -j 10s, -j 50%
FILES
~/.moc MOC directory for the configuration file, socket, the pid file
and other data.
~/.moc/config
Configuration file for MOC. The format is very simple; to see
how to use it look at the example configuration file (con‐
fig.example) distributed with the program. The example file
fully describes all the configuration options, and so is a use‐
ful reference when using the -O option. As this file can spec‐
ify commands which invoke other applications MOC will refuse to
start if it is not owned by either root or the current user, or
if it is writable by anyone other than it's owner.
~/.moc/themes
/usr/share/moc/themes
Default directories for the theme files.
/usr/share/moc/decoder_plugins
Default directories for the audio decoder plugins.
mocp_client_log
mocp_server_log
Client and server log files. These files are created in the
directory in which the client and server are started. (Also see
the -D option.)
BUGS
Command line options that affect the server behaviour (like
--sound-driver) are ignored if the server is already running at the
time of executing mocp. The user is not warned about this.
HOMEPAGE
http://moc.daper.net/
AUTHOR
Damian Pietras <daper@daper.net>
MOC Maintainer(s) <mocmaint@daper.net>
Version 2.5.0-beta1 12 October 2012 MOC(1)
