CLI mplayer Shuffle Music Directory & Info?

GrouchoMarxist

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!

marc

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_play

chmod +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

Regards

GrouchoMarxist

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?

marc

It's a little trickier than that

done < <(find "${1}" -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.ogg" -o -name "*.flac" -print0)

That should do the trick!

Regards