<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>How to play music in the CLI with an equalizer - Archive - MayVaneDay Studios</title> <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> <meta name="author" content="Vane Vander"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> </head> <body class="mayvaneday"> <article> <div class="box"> <p><h1>How to play music in the CLI with an equalizer</h1></p> <p>published: 2020-04-10</p> </div> <hr> <div class="box"> <ol type="1"> <li>Install VLC.</li> </ol> <p><code>sudo apt install vlc</code></p> <ol start="2" type="1"> <li>Open VLC and drag some music in.</li> <li>While playing some music, open the Tools > Effects and Filters menu. Play around with the presets until you find one that sounds good.</li> <li>Write down the name of the preset you used and then close VLC.</li> <li>In a terminal, <code>cd</code> to where the music you want to play is.</li> <li>In that terminal, execute this command:</li> </ol> <p><code>cvlc --equalizer-preset=INSERT_PRESET_NAME_HERE -I ncurses *.flac</code></p> <p><code>INSERT_PRESET_NAME_HERE</code> should be in all lowercase. For example, the “Headphones” preset (which is what I use) would be <code>--equalizer-preset=headphones</code>.</p> <p>The full list of valid possibilities is: <ul> <li>flat</li> <li>classical</li> <li>club</li> <li>dance</li> <li>fullbass</li> <li>fullbasstreble</li> <li>fulltreble</li> <li>headphones</li> <li>largehall</li> <li>live</li> <li>party</li> <li>pop</li> <li>reggae</li> <li>rock</li> <li>ska</li> <li>soft</li> <li>softrock</li> <li>techno</li> </ul> <p>If your files are MP3 or some other format, replace the <code>flac</code> in <code>*.flac</code> with the actual file type.</p> <ol start="7" type="1"> <li>Press the “h” key to open the help menu, which will show you the player controls.</li> </ol> </div> <hr> <div class="box"> <p align=right>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 © Vane Vander</p> </div> </article> </body> </html>