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

[frank pirrone]

Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
> \r
>
>   
LOL!  Sure, and with bio-feedback and an electrode band around your 
forehead you won't even have to reach for that...or even wake up given 
the proper dream!

Frank