frostvk / mous

Simple yet powerful audio player for BSD/Linux/macOS

Mous Player

Features

• Lightweight
• Extensible plugins
• Only a few dependencies
• Support FreeBSD, Linux, macOS

Front-end

1. mous-qt

• Based on Qt
• Foobar2000 like
• Audio format conversion
• Tag & cover art editor
• Charset conversion

2. mous-ncurses

• Based on Ncurses
• Vim like key binding
• File explorer
• Multi playlists
• Low memory consumption
• Play in background
• Charset conversion

3. mous-cli

• Command line

Plugins

• Decoding: ape, flac, mp4, mp3, ogg, wav, wma, wv
• Encoding: mp4, mp3, wav
• Output: oss, alsa, libao
• Tag parser (ID3, mp4, etc.)
• CUE playlist

Dependencies

Front-end	Dependency
mous-qt	Qt
mous-ncurses	-
mous-cli	-

Plugin	Dependency
mp3 decoding	mpg123
mp3 encoding	lame
mp4 decoding	faad2 or fdk-aac
mp4 encoding	faac
wv codec	wavpack
ogg codec	libvorbis
flac codec	flac
ape encoding	yasm
wma decoding	-
alsa output	-
oss output	-
libao output	libao
Tag parse	taglib
Cue playlist	libcue

Install

FreeBSD Ports

cd /usr/ports/audio/mous/
make config
make install clean

FreeBSD pkg

pkg install audio/mous

License

The 2-Clause BSD License

Screenshots

mous-ncurses

mous-qt