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Gnome Music vs MOC - Music On Console

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When comparing Gnome Music vs MOC - Music On Console, the Slant community recommends MOC - Music On Console for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” MOC - Music On Console is ranked 18th while Gnome Music is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose MOC - Music On Console is:

MOC can be run (and later controlled) totally in the background.

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What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?

Pros

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Simple clean and minimal interface

Pro
Open source

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UI design consistent with GNOME desktop environment

Gnome Music is GNOME's default music player. If you use GNOME Desktop Environment, you'll feel familiar with other GNOME Apps like this one.

Pro
Stable

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System-wide music organizer

Gnome Music automatically seeks and organises your music files throughout your system using Tracker.

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Works as a daemon

MOC can be run (and later controlled) totally in the background.

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Works in console only

There's no need for X server when using MOC.

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Playlists

MOC handles playlists and it can play custom playlists ad-hoc. Also, after it has finished, it can resume playing the original playlist.

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Lightweight

MOC uses a very little resources

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Cons

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Cannot change library folder

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Too Simplistic

It works as a simple music player with a GNOME look, but it has very few features and almost no configuration options. Too bad.

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Buggy

Gnome Music needs a tracker daemon running in the background and that thing never loads the music. It takes forever for a huge library to be loaded even if it was previously partially loaded.