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Description:
Practical Music Search, an ncurses-based MPD client

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: mpd music terminal ncurses audio

Install: brew install pms

About:
Practical Music Search (PMS) is a lightweight, terminal-based client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It provides a highly responsive and keyboard-driven interface for browsing libraries, managing playlists, and controlling playback. Its primary value is offering a powerful, scriptable music control center directly within the console for power users.

Key Features:

Vi/Vim-inspired keybindings for efficient navigation and control
Advanced library search and filtering capabilities
Highly customizable interface and layout
Support for MPD music stickers and dynamic playlists

Use Cases:

Managing a home media server's music library from a headless machine or terminal
Power users seeking a keyboard-centric, scriptable music player without a GUI
Integrating music control into a terminal-based workflow or window manager

Alternatives:

mpc – PMS provides a full interactive UI, whereas mpc is a non-interactive CLI command for simple MPD control.
ncmpcpp – PMS is designed to be lighter and faster, while ncmpcpp offers more built-in features like an visualizer and tag editor.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 12:48pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	36015c37
Sep 14, 2024 7:26am		1	VERSION_BUMP	395b03bb