* Ashley M. Kirchner [Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:52:21PM -0700]:
> Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> > while [ 1 ]
> > do
> > for mp3 in `/bin/ls -AQU *.mp3`
> > do
> > amp -p $mp3
> > done
> > done
>
> Hrm, something's not right.
>
> a) If I do 'ls -AQU *.mp3', the result is always sorted.
> However, if I just do 'ls -AQU' it's not sorted.
>
> b) Running the above doesn't work, and I think it has to do with
> the way the files are setup:
>
> [ artist one ] song title one.mp3
> [ artist one ] song title two.mp3
> [ artist two ] song title one.mp3
>
> When I run the above snippet, I get amp trying to play this:
>
> amp -p [
> amp -p artist
> amp -p one
> amp -p ]
> amp -p song
> ...
> ...
>
> It's breaking it into individual pieces...
>
With filenames like that things can get pretty cumbersome in bash,
so I suggest a perl script instead. Here's one I once created to
generate shuffed playlists, somewhat adapted to this situation:
#!/usr/bin/perl
srand;
for (;;)
{
@f = <*.mp3>;
@s=();
(push(@s,splice(@f,rand @f,1))) while (@f);
map {system ("amp","-p",$_)} @s;
}
It will loop ad inifinitum, playing all mp3 files in the working
directory randomly shuffled.
Hope that helps.
--
Johannes Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computer Science, AA University
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