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CLI mplayer Shuffle Music Directory & Info?
GrouchoMarxist
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in Multimedia
Does anyone here know how to configure mplayer in the command line to not only shuffle a directory of music but display the "now playing" info with each song change as well?
As of right now, I am able to shuffle my music directory with the following code:
find ~/Music/ | mplayer -shuffle -playlist -> /dev/null
I am running Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze on an x86_64 laptop.
My thanks to anyone who can help me figure this out!
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I'm afraid your aproach has some drawbacks. I've made you a script for what you requested:
if [[ ${#} -lt 1 || ! -d ${1} [[; then echo "Calling failed, try with something like" echo "${0} ~/Music" exit 1 fi while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' file; do a[i++]="$file" # or however you want to process each file done < <(find "${1}" -name "*.mp3" -print0) mplayer -shuffle "${a[@]}"
Place that in a file like shuffle_playchmod +x shuffle_play mv shuffle_play /usr/bin/ # as root!
Then give it a try with:shuffle_play ~/Music
This will only play your mp3 files. If you need other file formats you can modify the script yourself or ask me to do it
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Thank you very much! Your code worked perfectly
I have a question, though. Where it states
done < <(find "${1}" -name "*.mp3" -print0)
Could I add a comma so that it would read"*.ogg, .flac"
or something to that effect so it would include both ogg and FLAC formats?0 -
It's a little trickier than that
done < <(find "${1}" -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.ogg" -o -name "*.flac" -print0)
That should do the trick!
Regards0
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