ncmpc is a ncurses client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon with an interface is inspired by cplay (by Ulf Betlehem). The client connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local network. By default, ncmpc connects to localhost:2100. This can be changed either at compile-time, or by exporting the MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables, or by the command line options --host and --port. $ ncmpc --host=musicserver --port=44000 Read more about MPD on http://www.musicpd.org