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SOMERSWORTH — A city woman's dreams of becoming a special-education teacher have been put on hold, as she fights for her life against the neurological effects of Lyme disease.Through her fundraising website, LifeNotLyme.org, Abby Houde, of Somersworth, hopes community members can help her pay for treatment, for herself and for others battling the disease.Houde, 29, has struggled with health issues as far back as she could remember, whether it was asthma, sinus infections, or pneumonia. In high school, she did much of her schoolwork at home, and while she missed too many school days necessary for graduation, the state of Maine let her graduate anyway — after all, Seacoast Christian School in South Berwick, Maine, needed someone to make the valedictorian speech, she said.While attending Gordon College in Beverly, Mass., Houde was working on three majors, hoping to become a special-education teacher. However, due to illness, Houde had to stop attending the college.At the age of 26, she was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Last summer, a month before her wedding to her husband Lionel Houde, she was diagnosed with Lyme. Houde suspects she has had Lyme disease since she was 9 years old, when she was bitten by a tick. While getting a diagnosis felt like a relief, the daily symptoms of the disease, and the required cost of treatment, is a painful reality.In addition to having problems with loss of memory, Houde has lost her upper vision, due to not enough blood flow to the front of her brain. Houde also struggles with seizure-like symptoms, due to the presence of Lyme in her central nervous system. Houde, who used to run three miles a day, is now using a wheelchair to move about."It's hard on the ego, you have to get help getting everywhere," she said.


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RAISING THE FLAG | Arossa Wine & Grill Restaurant | Part of Arossa's National Day five-course menu ($75), this dessert resembles the Singapore flag using yogurt and berry semifreddo (a semi-frozen dessert).
PICK 'N MIX | Casa Verde | Casa Verde's National Day three-course specials ($9.80) are a steal. Among the dishes is Uncle Dan's rojak, which consists of green apple, pineapple, youtiao (fried dough sticks), taupok (fried beancurd), white turnip, cucumber, grated peanuts, ginger flower tossed in a rojak sauce of assam paste, shrimp paste and sugar.
A CUT ABOVE | Cut | Imagine the everyday kaya-toast-and-coffee combo flipped inside out. Cut by Wolfgang Puck does a version of this breakfast in the form of dessert ($24). With a coconut sponge base, the kaya toast baked Alaska is topped with pandan gelato and a coconut sorbet dome covered with little meringue peaks. Spoon a little of the accompanying egg yolk sabayon and coffee crumble for additional texture. An equally unconventional drizzle of soya sauce completes this dish. We think this might be a late contender to HungryGoWhere's '52 dishes you must eat in Singapore' feature.
FIT FOR ROYALTY | db Bistro Moderne | It seems natural to pair the king and queen of fruits when incorporating a tropical edge to a French dessert favourite. The rise of the sweet durian souffle by db Bistro Moderne is intensified with mangosteen sorbet on the side, blending the hot and cold together. Priced at $15.
FULL STEAM AHEAD | Din Tai Fung | As some adventurous menus have proven, you may stuff just about anything you want in a dim sum — mixed mushrooms, foie gras, beef cheek — so why not chilli crab? Din Tai Fung's steamed chilli crab dumplings (four pieces for $7.50) are a tangy combination of chewy, tangy goodness. Bite into the thin dumpling skin, which retain the restaurant's signature "18 folds", and uncover chunks of fresh crabmeat in a spicy chilli-crab-based broth.
BOOK A TABLE | TURN THE OTHER CHEEK | Ding Dong | The unmistakable smell of rendang wafts through the air of every Malay household during the festive Hari Raya Puasa season, but the dish hardly takes advantage of the most succulent part of the meat — the cheek. Ding Dong has remained true to the original recipe with its use of curry powder, turmeric powder and fresh coconut, but has done a sous vide, marinating the beef cheek for 48 hours before serving it with a siphoned espuma rendang curry. Priced at $24.
BOOK A TABLE | DELICIOUSLY STUFFED | Forlino | Another chilli crab reincarnate, Forlino's chilli crab raviolone features ravioli stuffed with crab meat, tomato, ginger and chili, and served with a crab bisque sauce that mimics the texture of the original, with an egg scrambled into it. It is part of a buffet ($208++ per person) that is complemented by Prosecco wines, house wines and beers. Enjoy this with an uninterrupted view of the Marina Bay waterfront from the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows.
PERANAKAN PORKER | Lime | Parkroyal on Pickering's restaurant, Lime, has a good babi pongteh (stewed pork with fermented soy beans), which is part of the lunch (Mondays to Fridays $45, Saturdays $48) and dinner (Mondays to Thursdays $58, Fridays and Saturdays $62) buffet. The dish is a beloved medley of Peranakan larder flavours. Using a foundation of onion, garlic and salted bean nursed slowly until golden brown and fragrant, the chef chooses to cook pork shoulder instead of the belly to avoid the fattening parts — thus lessening the guilt that those who are health-conscious may face.
BOOK A TABLE | SPANISH FLAIR | My Little Spanish Place | My Little Spanish Place understands the demand for a compulsory eggs-and-toast brunch (be it at a kopitiam or a cafe) and has introduced the chilli crab toast ($22). Similar to the Spanish brunch dish of torrada de jamon, the fresh crab meat is cooked in a sweet and spicy garlic sauce. Using toasted sourdough bread as a crusty base and dressed with homemade aioli, the sweet ending lies at the height of the dish — a poached egg with an inviting yolk that just waits to be devoured.
CAVIAR GOES PERANAKAN | Orchard Cafe | Orchard Cafe's mouthwatering kueh pie tee (thin, deep-fried pastry tart shell filled with a spicy, sweet mixture of thinly sliced vegetables and prawns) is part of the Straits Cuisine lunch ($56.16 per person) and dinner ($79.56 per person) buffets, and it is crunchy yet succulent. Bite into plump langoustines, topped with salmon roe and a dollop of "Nyonya Caviar" — the bitter and buttery Peranakan staple, buah keluak.
Celebrate Singapore's 49th birthday with special deals, where $49++ set meals and desserts may be had for $4.90. We have them listed on our "4-9" Deals promotion page.
SLIPPERY SLICE | Picotin Express | We enjoy the delicious mess of a bowl of laksa — the object behind many hawker tussles. A pizza version may be just as messy as well. Picotin's seafood laksa pizza (12-inch at $22) is lathered with a spicy laksa paste and topped with squid, prawns, crabmeat, taupok, chilli and mozzarella cheese. Italian herbs take a hike this time, with deep-fried laksa leaves making a crisp entrance to the palate.
BOOK A TABLE | A BALL OF A TIME | Street 50 Restaurant & Bar | If you're a fan of the chicken rice balls found in Malacca, this might come as a close second. Part of the National Day buffet dinner ($49 per adult), Street 50's poached chicken is served with breaded rice balls which have been layered with Japanese bread crumbs, and deep fried to golden perfection — it's an arancini of sorts. Replacing the garlic chilli is a chilli and tomato chutney which delivers a spicy and sour kick.
BOOK A TABLE | MAY THE FROTH BE WITH YOU | Tippling Club | One of the Tippling Club's staples, Singapore Curry, is packed with a curry mousse, puffed white rice, deep-fried curry leaves and coriander. The mousse, made using pressurised air and a siphon, retains the signature familiar curry scent, but without the heavy gravy. It's an amuse bouche that will leave you satiated in mere seconds. it's part of the six- ($160++) and 11-course ($265++) meal.
BOOK A TABLE | FOR LAKSA LOVERS | Ujong | Ujong's fish curry laksa ($23.90) lacks a broth but manages to stay rich and tangy. The distinctive assam notes can be tasted in the dry sauce, which coats the laksa noodles, poached fish, cucumber and tomatoes.
TOAST MASTERS | Pacific Marketplace | An otak-otak is addictive – one piece hardly ever suffices. Which is why these small toasties with spicy fish paste are simply irresistible. Topping the thin slices of freshly-baked white bread is a thick slice of homemade otak, comprising of fresh mackerel fish paste grounded with garlic, turmeric, lemon grass, chilli powder and coconut milk. The finishing touches of chilli, Japanese cucumber and a boiled quail egg lend both a spicy crisp and creamy fullness to this small but worldly-textured dish. It's part of Pacific Marketplace's new Peranakan afternoon tea ($58 for two adults), which is traditionally served in a four-tiered tiffin carrier.
A SHOT TO THE STARS | COOK & BREW | Your favourite local drinks just got naughtier. Cook & Brew presents three shots ($4.90 each) infused with teh tarik (pulled tea), bandung (rose syrup with milk, pictured above) and Milo for a taste that is both familiar and foreign. The Milo Dinosaur shot is an after-hours version of the coffee-shop favourite, with Mozart Black dark chocolate liqueur, a generous serving of Milo powder, and milk biscuit balls.
STRAIT UP GRATIFICATION | Oriole Coffee Roasters | It might sound ambitious to include seven ingredients in one cuppa, but with Oriole Coffee Roasters' track record, it doesn't disappoint. Straits 7 Coffee ($6) is running a competition on what is in its seven-ingredient coffee, which is specially served in an old-school porcelain cup and saucer. So far, the crew is hinting at the flavours of espresso and Horlicks, so try your luck at guessing after you've nursed a cup and you might be one of the first 49 people to win a $49 dinner voucher at Oriole.
BOOK A TABLE | FLOWER POWER | Sense Ristorante & Bar | The Red Orchid ($16) is an August-only special. Senso's vodka-based cocktail mixed with violet and cranberry juice is finished with a trio of raspberries, paying tribute to our national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim.
IF YOU LIKE COLADAS | Catalunya | Catalunya's Mumbai Colada ($25), as its name suggests, infuses a cocktail with some of the spices you find at an Indian sundry shop. Joining the base of mustard macerated in Johnnie Walker Black Label is a host of ingredients such as Indian bitters, garam masala, coriander, Mozart Black, lemon juice, black cardamom syrup and kaya mix. It's only for the brave — but it also comes in a set ($49) along with another specialty cocktail, Calamansi Mojito ($20 on its own), a serving of patatas bravas (fried potato cubes) and a killer view of the fireworks over Marina Bay.
THE NUTCRACKER | Jamie's Italian | A twist to the local dessert of ice kacang, Jamie Italian's Cracking Kachang ($16) is made from the Saliza Amaretto, a golden liqueur from Italy made with crushed almonds, resulting in intense marzipan flavours. The amaretto's sweetness is lifted by muddling raspberries and strawberries, and topped with a homemade sour cherry gomme syrup and fresh milk, for a red-and-white visual structure.


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Comfortable beds; fluffy, unstained towels; plenty of lighting in the room; decent variety for breakfast.
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The location was pretty good. Close to the premium outlet mall, west point & great restaurants. This will be my place to stay whenever I come visit my son @ school.
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Loved your pool and breakfast. The decor was nice also. The housekeeper was very nice. I wish I hit her name. 60 maybe ? Very short with black hair.
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Bed was comfortable. Bathroom was accessible. Location was easy to get to. Breakfast was good.
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The rooms were very nice and clean.
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We really did like everything about this hotel. Nancy at the front desk was very friendly and helpful. The room was very nice for the money. The location was excellent. It was interstate adjacent with many nearby choices for gas, food and shopping.
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Located off Interstate 84, this Fishkill hotel is near the Van Wyck Homestead Museum and the Dutch Reformed Church archeological site and offers free Wi-Fi and rooms that feature a flat-screen TV.
A microwave and refrigerator are offered in all rooms. Plush bedding, a work desk, and bright decor are also included in each modern room at Fishkill Holiday Inn Express.
Guests can swim in the indoor pool or relax in the hot tub. A business center and a fitness center are also available.
Stewart International Airport is a short drive from the Holiday Inn Express Fishkill. The Dia Art Foundation is 6 miles away and the Gourmet Institute of America is a 25 minute drive away.
We speak your language! Hotel Rooms: 71, Hotel Chain: Holiday Inn Express. This property has been on Booking.com since Oct 22, 2012.
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Ramada Conference Center Fishkill Located off Interstate 84 in Fishkill, this hotel is a 5-minutes' drive from Splash Down Beach, a water park. The hotel features an outdoor pool and guest rooms with free Wi-Fi.
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FairBridge Inn and Suites West Point Located in Highland Falls, New York, this hotel is only 1 mile from the West Point Museum and 3 miles from Bear Mountain Zoo. It offers a continental breakfast.
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Howard Johnson Inn of Newburgh is in the heart of the majestic Hudson Valley, minutes from exciting historic sights and activities such as West Point Military Academy, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets,...
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Hilton Garden Inn Poughkeepsie/Fishkill This hotel is near the intersection of I-84 and route 9, just 1.3 miles from downtown Fishkill, New York. It features an indoor pool, jacuzzi and rooms with free Wi-Fi.
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I liked the cleanliness of the room and comfort. It was easy to find right off I84. It had a pool and free internet.
Comfortable beds; fluffy, unstained towels; plenty of lighting in the room; decent variety for breakfast.
Breakfast closed too early on Sunday and didn't even stay fully stocked until the posted 10 a.m. closing time; the "view" from our room looked directly into the back of the sign over the entrance; the walls were paper thin and we had a boys' high school soccer team in the next rooms; the hotel was 16 miles and 40 traffic lights from our destination, the Culinary Institute; the HVAC system rattled at night; and the bathroom was too small.
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Spent only one night but was very good to have it so close to the interstate as we continued our travelling the day after.
WIFI was always down. We expect a compansation for the time we lost on phone calls.
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The location was pretty good. Close to the premium outlet mall, west point & great restaurants. This will be my place to stay whenever I come visit my son @ school.
Pool was small, but everything can't be perfect.
Loved your pool and breakfast. The decor was nice also. The housekeeper was very nice. I wish I hit her name. 60 maybe ? Very short with black hair.
The pillows. They were the worst pillows I have ever slept on. You need more chairs in the pool area. I was there watching my kids swim and I had to stand there for hours. No towels in the pool area.
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A group of bikers were very loud at night, lots of drama, lots of swearing and yelling that they're gonna kill each other. Not a great night.
Bed was comfortable. Bathroom was accessible. Location was easy to get to. Breakfast was good.
Handicapped handheld shower didn't work. Front desk person the 2nd time we stayed made me wait while he took care of a person that came in after me and was looking for another hotel. Front desk check the wrong person out the first time we stayed. I got a copy of the other persons bill that had personal information on it. When I called they said someone would call me back. They didn't.
The rooms were very nice and clean.
The pool was not quite as big as I was hoping, and was VERY chlorinated.
We really did like everything about this hotel. Nancy at the front desk was very friendly and helpful. The room was very nice for the money. The location was excellent. It was interstate adjacent with many nearby choices for gas, food and shopping.
location was good pool area not bad
room was not serviced for second days stay. brunch was stale by 8 am . Jacuzzi only had three jets working. place needs better management.
The Manager which name is Nancy was very helpful we remember her from our other stay and that was one of the main reason that we went back and will continue have our weekend getaways there.
I have nothing to say about what I did not like because everything was just perfect.
Rooms r beautiful and clean, front desk receptionist was friendly
Beautiful clean rooms, cute pool and very decent breakfast.
comfortable bed and room temperature.
Couple in room next to us talking 2 nights until 2am- guess the walls are very thin. I must say because we stayed in a Holiday Inn over last Thanksgiving also, the food has really declined in appearance and taste -the coffee you are diluting way too much - it is awful !


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Augustinus - Confessiones. Memories of the East Village Art Scene. In a strictly hedonistic way, Eileen's Reno Bar was integral to the East Village community.
A narrow pocket of surrealism on Second Avenue between 11th and 12th, its ceiling surfaced in plastic jade plant—brown plastic jade plant—Eileen's had its flaccid nights of dead-room tone. But most evenings brought a steady influx of pre-op transsexuals, clueless walk-ins, bisexual drug dealers, garrulous drunks with a schizophrenic flair, Ricardo Montalban types from Europe lusting after chicks with dicks, and a few black-humored fags like myself, who much preferred the Reno Bar's nightly Halloween party to clocking the aging process in some drippy gay bar. Eileen's had the carnal whoop-de-do of a fetish convention. It was also full of crack whores working the track on 11th Street.
Ball and socket joint. The ball and socket joint (or spheroidal joint) is a joint in which the ball-shaped surface of one rounded bone fits into the cup-like depression of another bone.
The distal bone is capable of motion around an indefinite number of axes, which have one common center. It enables the bone to move in many planes (almost all directions). An enarthrosis is a special kind of spheroidal joint in which the socket covers the sphere beyond its equator.[1] Examples[edit] Examples of this form of articulation are found in the hip, where the rounded head of the femur (ball) rests in the cup-like acetabulum (socket) of the pelvis, and in the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, where the rounded head of the humerus (ball) rests in the cup-like glenoid fossa (socket) of the shoulder blade.[2] It should be noted that the shoulder includes a Sternoclavicular articulation joint. Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism.
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Lessons. A comparison of the Chimp, Human, and A. afarensis femur demonstrates a rounder femoral head and longer femoral neck length in bipeds.
The femur is a critical link between the pelvis, vertebral column, and the feet in a biped because all of the body's mass is transferred to the feet via this bone during standing and movement. The gluteal muscles that link the femur to the pelvis provide the propulsive force for locomotion. The rounded femoral head articulates with the pelvis at the acetabulum (hip joint). The femoral shaft is generally straight, ending in two bulbous condyles.
These are larger and more elliptical in bipeds compared to the relatively smaller and rounder condyles seen in quadrupeds. DER SPIEGEL 14/1966 - JESUS UND DIE KIRCHEN. Birth–death process. The birth–death process is a special case of continuous-time Markov process where the state transitions are of only two types: "births", which increase the state variable by one and "deaths", which decrease the state by one.
The model's name comes from a common application, the use of such models to represent the current size of a population where the transitions are literal births and deaths. Birth–death processes have many applications in demography, queueing theory, performance engineering, epidemiology or in biology. They may be used, for example to study the evolution of bacteria, the number of people with a disease within a population, or the number of customers in line at the supermarket. When a birth occurs, the process goes from state n to n + 1.
Untitled. Monte Carlo method. Monte Carlo methods (or Monte Carlo experiments) are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results; typically one runs simulations many times over in order to obtain the distribution of an unknown probabilistic entity.
They are often used in physical and mathematical problems and are most useful when it is difficult or impossible to obtain a closed-form expression, or infeasible to apply a deterministic algorithm. Monte Carlo methods are mainly used in three distinct problem classes: optimization, numerical integration and generation of draws from a probability distribution.
The modern version of the Monte Carlo method was invented in the late 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam, while he was working on nuclear weapons projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Astronomers discover complex organic matter exists throughout the universe. Astronomers report in the journal Nature that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe.
The results suggest that complex organic compounds are not the sole domain of life but can be made naturally by stars. Prof. Random walk. Example of eight random walks in one dimension starting at 0.
The plot shows the current position on the line (vertical axis) versus the time steps (horizontal axis). A random walk is a mathematical formalization of a path that consists of a succession of random steps. For example, the path traced by a molecule as it travels in a liquid or a gas, the search path of a foraging animal, the price of a fluctuating stock and the financial status of a gambler can all be modeled as random walks, although they may not be truly random in reality. The term random walk was first introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905.[1] Random walks have been used in many fields: ecology, economics, psychology, computer science, physics, chemistry, and biology.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Random walks explain the observed behaviors of processes in these fields, and thus serve as a fundamental model for the recorded stochastic activity.
Markov process. Markov process example Introduction[edit] A Markov process is a stochastic model that has the Markov property.
This undated image provided by the journal Science a picokeystone, extracted from an aerogel tile from the Stardust interstellar dust collector. Scientists said seven microscopic particles collected by NASA's comet-chasing spacecraft, Stardust, appear to. Special relativity. Special relativity implies a wide range of consequences, which have been experimentally verified,[2] including length contraction, time dilation, relativistic mass, mass–energy equivalence, a universal speed limit, and relativity of simultaneity. It has replaced the conventional notion of an absolute universal time with the notion of a time that is dependent on reference frame and spatial position.
Rather than an invariant time interval between two events, there is an invariant spacetime interval. Relativistic Doppler effect. Diagram 1. A source of light waves moving to the right, relative to observers, with velocity 0.7c. The frequency is higher for observers on the right, and lower for observers on the left. The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency (and wavelength) of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the classical Doppler effect), when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.
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Figure 1. The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment Improved variants of the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment have been conducted using optical cavities or Lunar Laser Ranging. Ives–Stilwell experiment. Ives–Stilwell experiment (1938). "Canal rays" (a mixture of mostly H2+ and H3+ ions) were accelerated through perforated plates charged from 6,788 to 18,350 volts. The beam and its reflected image were simultaneously observed with the aid of a concave mirror offset 7° from the beam.[1] (The offset in this illustration is exaggerated.) The Ives–Stilwell experiment tested the contribution of relativistic time dilation to the Doppler shift of light.[1][2] The result was in agreement with the formula for the transverse Doppler effect, and was the first direct, quantitative confirmation of the time dilation factor. Since then, many Ives–Stilwell type experiments have been performed with increased precision. Together with the Michelson–Morley and Kennedy–Thorndike experiments, it forms one of the fundamental tests of special relativity theory.[3] Other tests confirming the relativistic Doppler effect, are the Mössbauer rotor experiment and modern Ives–Stilwell experiments.
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Rock Out with Your Console Out
MPD + Ncmpcpp
In the vast universe of Linux audio, the Music Player Dæmon (MPD) could be considered a red giant. Chances are you've at least heard of it if you've done any research on playing music in Linux. It comes preinstalled in many distributions, and I have yet to find a major repository that doesn't include it.
MPD is technically a server-side application; it's great for setting up networked audio in a home media center. You also can use it simply for local playback. The advantage here is that you can use any client you want to control MPD, and there are many from which to choose. I easily could devote pages to discussing MPD, but that's beyond the scope of this article. Documentation is easy to find on-line.
Now, let's move on to Ncmpcpp. This is an Ncurses MPD client, based on Ncmpc but more advanced. It includes support for Last.fm scrobbling and music visualization via external libraries. Lyrics fetching and display are built in and can be activated for a selected track by pressing l. The lyrics feature is, in fact, what attracted me to Ncmpcpp in the first place. I'd tried various scripts to fetch lyrics in other console music players, particularly MOC, but nothing worked for me until Ncmpcpp. Ncmpcpp can fetch artist information as well.
Although Ncmpcpp is terrific once you get it set up, using an MPD client to listen to music isn't always a pragmatic choice. You'll most likely be up and running much faster with a player like Mp3blaster, MOC or Herrie.
I'm someone who likes to experiment with various Linux distributions by installing them on old computers and in virtual machines, and I often test out software in these environments. The truth about MPD is that a lot can go wrong. I let out a (silent) cheer every time I manage to install and use it successfully. Grappling with dependencies is half the battle, and configuring your system, especially your ~/.mpdconf file, is the other half. I've gotten it to work on some systems without a hitch, but more often than not, I've encountered problems and solved them through trial and error.
Don't let this discourage you; MPD and its wide selection of clients are worth the effort to set up if you take advantage of their features, and there are plenty of places to get help if you need it. The MPD man page is essential reading; beyond that, read through the official wiki and forums. Your distribution may provide documentation as well. Gentoo's on-line wiki, for instance, has a lengthy section on MPD.
Figure 5. Ncmpcpp Showing Lyrics
Figure 6. Browsing Files in Ncmpcpp
XMMS2 + Kuechenstation/CCX2
Like MPD, XMMS2 is a dæmon you can control over a network, and there are various clients for it. The XMMS2 Wiki acknowledges that the developers of these two applications have similar goals and that a collaboration could eventually be possible. For now though, they are separate packages with separate clients. Two text-mode XMMS2 clients that caught my attention were Kuechenstation and CCX2.
Kuechenstation is one 1337 music player. Okay, I was being mostly facetious there, but take one look at it, and you'll think "eighties demoscene". (Kuechenstation actually has been around only since 2008.) It uses the FIGlet library to display the current song title in a scrolling marquee of oversized letters made from ASCII characters.
The whole interface is attractive and friendly. You can navigate through several full-screen modes using keybindings that are helpfully listed at the bottom of the screen. These modes include playlist mode, artist information mode and podcast mode, to name a few. The podcast feature is especially notable; I haven't seen podcast support in any of the other music players discussed in this article. Kuechenstation helps you get started with a few pre-subscribed feeds, which are all in German.
The Kuechenstation configuration file is located at ~/.config/xmms2/clients/kuechenstation.conf. There you can choose your podcast subscriptions, interface colors and even the scrolling FIGlet font.
Figure 7. Kuechenstation with My Customized Color Theme
CCX2, written in Python, is another solid XMMS2 client. Its command mode will come naturally to Vi/Vim users. All the standard playback and playlist management features are there: search, rename, browse, metadata display and so forth.
So why did I decide to write about two TUI XMMS2 clients instead of just choosing the one with more features? My reasoning is, first of all, that the interfaces of Kuechenstation and CCX2 are quite different, and each will appeal to different users solely on the basis of personal taste. Second, each has a major feature that the other lacks. CCX2 doesn't come with podcast support as Kuechenstation does, but it does support lyrics fetching out of the box, which Kuechenstation does not.
Figure 8. One of CCX2's Lyrics Display Layouts
I suggest trying them both. They are young and in active development, so there's a reasonable chance that a feature you're missing could be added in the future. And, of course, if you're a developer, you can try to add it yourself.
The famous VLC media player, known for its ability to play almost any
media file you throw at it, comes with a lesser-known Ncurses control
interface. To start it up, type nvlc
. The interactive
features are noticeably limited in comparison with the vast array of
options you may be used to seeing in the GUI version. Press B to browse
your files and Return to add a file to the playlist. Toggle help view with
h for a complete list of hot keys.
At first glance, nvlc doesn't seem all that special. It might not be for you if you want a player that's preconfigured with a hefty arsenal of hot keys, but you can do a lot with it—including adding custom hot keys—if you're willing to experiment.
The path to nvlc's power is through command-line arguments. You can
pass arguments ranging from a directory or playlist (a la,
) to complex chains of filters. Anything you
can do in the GUI version of VLC is possible with nvlc if you know which
arguments to pass.
Hint: enter nvlc -h
for basic help, which is actually quite
lengthy, or nvlc -H
for even lengthier help.
Enter nvlc
to see what modules are available in your installation or
nvlc --list-verbose
for more-detailed output.
For starters, try:
nvlc --audio-filter chorus_flanger --delay-time 150
↪--dry-mix 0.8 --wet-mix 0.6 --feedback-gain -0.3
Figure 9. A Playlist in nvlc
For the old-schoolers among you who collect modules—and perhaps scoff when you hear the phrases "MP3 player" and "music player" used interchangeably—there is MikMod. MikMod is an old standby from pre-Windows Microsoft DOS. You can use it as a back end for other applications, such as Bongo or EMMS in Emacs, or as a standalone module player.
MikMod will play many module formats. If your file extensions include MOD, XM, IT or S3M, you're in luck. Sorry, MP3s—no MikMod for you, or for all you WAVs and OGGs and AIFFs. In a way, this is a bit sad, because I'd love to play my standard music files in a player as awesome as MikMod. I have to keep in mind that many of MikMod's features, such as on-the-fly tempo change and instrument-specific volume bars, are built specifically for module file formats. Perhaps this will be an incentive for me to make some sounds in MilkyTracker.
Figure 10. Instrument Levels in MikMod
Figure 11. Some of MikMod's Options
Many console music players are available for Linux. I chose the few I covered in this article based on my level of experience with them and on what I considered to be unique and notable features. If the topic intrigues you, go out (or Google) and explore.
Ncurses: http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses
Mp3blaster: http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net
Herrie: http://herrie.info
MOC: http://moc.daper.net
Bongo: https://github.com/dbrock/bongo
EMMS: http://www.gnu.org/software/emms
Ncmpcpp: http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp
Kuechenstation: http://kuechenstation.sourceforge.net
CCX2: http://palbo.github.com/ccx2
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc
MikMod: http://mikmod.raphnet.net
Rebecca "Ruji" Chapnik is a freelance creator of miscellanea, including but not limited to text and images. You can find her experiments at http://rujic.net
+1 cmus; randomplay for random play
cmus for hassle free music. I just discovered randomplay looking for random number generators it the mint repos' and it is great. does what it says and remembers acroos sessions.
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Thanks Rebecca, wasn't aware these were out there, and that many of them.
I really prefer console in favor of GUI.
Maybe you can write an article on the excellent ffmpeg too?
Thanks again,
Somehow, nvlc passed me by.
Somehow, nvlc passed me by. Thanks for the tip. Now I don't have to pull my head out of the command line just to listen to music files.
Dave Keays, freelance webmaster
I have been using MOC with transparency for a long time. It is perfect.
+1 for cmus. Been using it
+1 for cmus. Been using it for years. very lightweight, to the point, without any bloat.
I am quite surprised that the author didn't know of cmus, as she has mentioned quite a few obscure ones.
Anyway, good article. It'll sure help a lot of people looking for console players.
Forgot CMUS
The author deserves credit for being quite thorough. Unfortunately, one of the omissions is a big one; to me, cmus is the best music player there is, holding its own against all other TUI, CLI, or GUI programs.
forgot about cplay
I've been using cplay for years,
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