[LAU] use your pc as an music player (and save energy)

[Grammostola Rosea]

Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> frank pirrone wrote:
>   
>> Arnold Krille wrote:
>>
>>     On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:53:40 Justin Smith wrote:
>>      
>>
>>         If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>>         mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know, for command
>>         line audio players there are quite a few, including xmms2 which is a
>>         demon that can be controlled from the command line and juke,
>>         which is
>>         an audio player with a curses frontend.
>>            
>>
>>
>>     Playlist on the commandline is one of the easier things: just add
>>     multiple files as arguments. mplayer is able to cope with that. And
>>     the < and > buttons on your keyboard let you jump back and forth
>>     file-wise.
>>
>>     Have fun,
>>
>>     Arnold
>>      
>>
>> Mplayer is an awesome multimedia program, and it does support playlists 
>> with the switch...-playlist!
>>
>> So, easier than virtually any other approach GUI or CLI, just do this to 
>> play all Ogg Vorbis files in your PWD:
>>
>> ls -1 *.ogg > ogg_playlist
>> mplayer -playlist ogg_playlist
>>
>> and you're in business.
>>
>>   
>>     
> I think you mean
>
> ls *.ogg > playlist
>
> ls -l doesn't work here.
>
> mplayer -shuffle -playlist playlist 
>
> does work :)
>
> But if I'm not in X, how do I set more commands?
>
> For example  when I want to listen to some music before going to  sleep?
>
> sudo shutdown -h 00:00 &
> mplayer -shuffle -playlist playlist 
>
> ?
>
>   
And is it possible to control audio files with wiimote on linux?
Then I just can stay in bed ;)

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