[LAU] Single Play MP3 player

[Brett McCoy]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

> I've got a little gig at the end of the month for which I'll be using
> backing tracks. In the past I stuck midi files on my synth and lugged
> the beast to the gig. This time I figured it'd be just as good to create
> mp3 files of the midi's and play them off my laptop (using the laptop
> just because the screen is big enough to read for old guys like me).
>
> Only problem with all this is to find a suitable mp3 player program.
>
> What I really need is a list of the songs (preferably in playlist order,
> but that's not critical) and then I want to click a tune, have it play,
> and STOP.
>
> Just about every player (noatun, amarok) I've fooled with wants to play
> each song in its playlist. Not what I want ... I really do need to
> pause. I suppose I could write a little script with a <wait for key>
> loop, but there must be something I can use.

You could probably do that with mplayer via command-line tools

-- Brett
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