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

[Patrick Shirkey]

david wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>> david wrote:
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>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>>> david wrote:
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>>>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
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>>>>>>>> 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,
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>>>>>>> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
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>>>>>>> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on 
>>>>>>> Linux Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular 
>>>>>>> playlist formats.
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>>>>>> And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
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>>>>> Sorry, I have no idea!
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>>>> Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it 
>>>> possible to solve this?
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>>> I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to 
>>> mplayer that could be used?
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>> alsaplayer used to have this functionality.
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> Hmmm, it started up a GUI when I tried installing it here. I think the 
> original poster was looking for a CLI player.
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>   

 alsaplayer -i text

IIRC it also has support for scripting with python. Several people have 
written fairly advanced g/uis for use in car audio systems and other 
places where a button controlled interface is useful.


Cheers.





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Patrick Shirkey
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