What does MOC mean in Music?

Music on Console

Music On Console is an ncurses-based console audio player for Linux/UNIX. It was originally written by Damian Pietras, and is currently maintained by John Fitzgerald. It is designed to be powerful and easy to use, with a command structure and window layout inspired by the Midnight Commander console file manager. It is very configurable, supporting ALSA, OSS or JACK outputs, customizable color schemes, interface layouts, key bindings, and tag parsing. MOC has a single playlist and has the concept of a 'music directory' but it has no library file where metadata is saved. Instead this information is read from the files themselves as needed upon access or during idle time. If the playlist has extended m3u information, that will be read. Its text-only nature consumes very little system resources, and it uses an output buffer in a separate thread to avoid skipping under high system loads and to enable gapless playback. Normally, exiting the program only closes the interface - the program daemonizes itself so the audio continues playing in the background. This client/server architecture is similar to MPD and XMMS2, but unlike those players, the MOC daemon is not accessible over a network, and does not have an open API to communicate with alternate clients. This has both advantages and disadvantages as, while MOC can't be controlled by a remote graphical client, it can securely range the entire filesystem, which is not advisable by a remotely- and anonymously-accessible server such as MPD.

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