# ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Repository: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ncmpcpp
Language: C++
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-06-25T22:43:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5131, "days_push": 69, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2475, forks 244 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:54.984178+00:00)

## What it is
ncmpcpp is a featureful ncurses-based terminal client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), inspired by ncmpc. It offers a tag editor, playlist editor, media library, search engine, and an optional music visualizer in a keyboard-driven terminal interface.

## Use cases
- control MPD music playback from the terminal
- edit music file tags from the command line
- browse and manage a music library in a terminal UI
- visualize audio frequency spectrum in the terminal
- fetch lyrics and artist info from last.fm
- manage MPD playlists

## When to choose
- you run MPD and want a rich keyboard-driven terminal client
- you need tag editing and playlist management without a GUI
- you work primarily on a headless or SSH-only machine

## When to avoid
- you don't use MPD as your music server
- you want a graphical music player
- you need non-UTF-8 encoding support
- you expect new features, since the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: audio-processing, cli, search-engine
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: mpd-client, ncurses, terminal-ui, music-player, tag-editor, music-visualizer, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:54.984178+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:28:23.299928+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:54.984178+00:00, sha 14bbf0a88993)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.