Question's in the title, really. Cmus documentation is pretty light on how to create new play lists, add songs to them, and then play them. I'd like to know step-by-step how to do that.

I've searched the net and came up with the configuration below. but I don't think my cmus install is using alsa. How do I know? Well, I installed strawberry and have configured it to use alsa. If I play youtube on the browser and then try playing on strawberry , I'll get a message that goes like "playback device is busy right now". I have to stop the Youtube playback first before strawberry starts playing music. If I do same with cmus, I can hear sound from **both** cmus and Youtube. Any ideas? Thanks **this is my configuration** [my-user@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/asound.conf # # Place your global alsa-lib configuration here... # defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.ctl.card 1 [my-user@fedora ~]$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [Dell monitor] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Series [Mini-i Series], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [my-user@fedora ~]$ cat ~/.config/cmus/rc set output_plugin=alsa set dsp.alsa.device=default set mixer.alsa.device=default set mixer.alsa.channel=Master

I would like to start playing a play list from cmus with a command line. This is to create a bash alias that would start playing a specific playlist. I tried cmus pl-import playlist_name But it doesn't import the playlist. This question https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/593727/how-can-i-create-a-playlist-and-add-songs-to-it-in-cmus explains how to create a playlist and add songs to it from within cmus.

I'd like to quickly add the currently marked track (in view 1, 2 or 4) to my playlist of favorites with a key-bindable command in cmus. The man page doesn't reveal a winning strategy. How to do it? :add -p only seems to accept paths as arguments, and it works on the currently marked playlist.

So, my situation is this: I have created a launcher, key bindings and an alias that opens GLava and CMus in a drop-down terminal at the same time, using this shell script: #!/bin/bash c=$(ps -e | grep -c xfce4-terminal) if [ $c -gt 0 ] then xfce4-terminal --tab --drop-down -x cmus | glava --desktop & $1 else xfce4-terminal --drop-down -x cmus | glava --desktop & $1 fi It is perfect and glorious, but for one small problem. I'd very much like for both programs to also CLOSE at the same time. Is there a way to have one programs' termination trigger another? Specifically, if I have CMus and GLava open, I'd like to be able to close CMus (say, by simply pressing 'q' and quitting CMus or by closing the terminal, or killing the program, OR a special key binding, etc.) and have GLava immediately close/terminate as well. As it stands, I have a separate key binding to pkill GLava after I've closed CMus, which works fine, I suppose, but is certainly a little clunkier than I'd like. Maybe there's a way for GLava to only get triggered if CMus is running, a sort of whitelist maybe? A simple shell that closes both programs that I can bind? Or another thought perhaps? I'm open to any suggestions, being the noob that I am. Any help is much appreciated.

I'd like to be able to queue songs and play the queue and I would also like for the playback to end when the queue ends. Currently another song is played when the queue ends (I haven't quite been able to figure out how that song is chosen).

So I have a terminal with cmus running on my main PC at my desk. I want to ssh to this main PC from my laptop and "take control" of cmus remotely, so that i can adjust volume, pause and play, choose the song, etc. Note: I don't want to stream music via ssh. I just want to take control of an existing cmus session via ssh. both machines are running linux mint. My question is different to other questions already asked because I want to take control of an *existing* cmus process, rather than spawning a new one.

I'm using cmus with Debian Buster. In the artists list (view 1), I see a single Al Green, with a single song. If I filter :filter artist="Al Green" I see Al Green repeated twice, first with the previously visible song (from the Pulp Fiction album), and second with his full album. However, when I remove the filter :filter then there's only one Al Green again, with a single song. What's happening here? EDIT I noticed that one Al Green is on A, and the other is on G (on alphabetical order). Elton John appears in both E and J, with different songs in each. Why?