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Goal: Play music from CLI over SSH, preferably using cmus.

First try: cmus

I run cmus in a terminal, literally nothing happens. It just loads (i guess). Tried cmus -vvvvv - Also just loads. Tried this and this - No changes to the issue. But: running it from a physical terminal on the computer works! (Both starting cmus, and playing audio successfully)

Second try: MOC

Running mocp opens it up, I can add files too. When trying to play a song, this message appears: can't open audio: device or resource busy MOC - No possible solution found.

Third try: mp3blaster

It starts. I can add files. It doesn't play: Failed to open sound device

Tried several suggestions (very outdated) from google, nothing helped. The one that seemed to help many others with this was padsc mp3blaster - But again, no help for me.

I am using ALSA with PulseAudio. Audio itself works fine. play or mplayer both work fine, but they don't offer libraries and playlists. Both work fine over SSH too.

I'm really clueless to what to do here since cmus doesn't print anything and mplayer works fine. I checked alsamixer and nothing is muted or disabled. There's only one single soundcard.

Not trying to have a broad suggest-me-something question here, I just added the other players since it might help find the issue, but the question aims to focus on getting cmus to work.

I've tried DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus cmus too (found here), same result.