cmus player
cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
Start cmus in GentooPlayer:
Open a console, it can be on screen or via putty or ssh.
Excute cmusp
to exit without stopping, type 0 (zero)
to exit completely, type q
see:
man cmus
man cmus-tutorial
set audio device
type direct
:set dsp.alsa.device=plughw:0
in the cmus schell the TAB key completes the commands, so it can help you...
Set Buffer, for to play in ram (max 3600 sec.)