Re: coaching in terminal
I found outfit was my power saver settings that were interfering with continuous playing. now I’ve got that sorted out. have you had experience with ripping and burning cd’s using VLC? is it accessible? Thanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
I bet it is the screensaver settings because I don't use those but I do seem to remember when I had my macbook air I had this issue at one time. Don't remember what I did about it. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: this does work and it works great! last night I tried it and played the folder for several hours. the only problem I had is that about every 2 or 3 songs VLC would stop. when I would tell it to go to the next track, it would, but it would start a measure or 2 in from the beginning of the song. maybe it’s the screen saver settings, I don’t know but I’m probably going to have my computer tech come over here and figure it out because I don’t have any readily available sighted help here. I did adjust the screen saver settings but I’m still having trouble. the rest is solved though so many thanks to you and David for sticking with me on this. > On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Okay, this does work. Because it says "open file" when you do cmd-o, I didn't > realize this would work for folders. > > Open vlc. > Do cmd-o. > You will be in a dialog where you have to choose a folder. Choose the folder > that would either be the one you want or would have that folder under it from > the pop-up. Then interact with the browser or list view or whatever you have > set in finder, and find the folder you want. Stop interacting and > vo-right-arrow to "open". This should indeed play everything in the folder > and its subfolders. Much easier than using terminal. > > If vlc is crashing, I would say maybe you have other files mixed in with your > music files. I don't really know if that would cause the crashing or slowness > between songs but maybe it would. I run large folders with lots of subfolders > and songs, both from terminal and with a playlist and I don't have delays. I > am pretty sure the cmd-o method should work also. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 10, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I might be missing something here but thefts time I did that, opened a folder > from the menu it just opened as it would if I did command-down arrow and > showed me the subfolders inside. nothing about playing it. that’s why I was > looking for “open with” the way you can do with a single sound file but that > option doesn’t seem to be there. > > if I’m in VLC and I press command-o then what would I do to highlight the > folder I wanted it to play? >> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> >> I am not sure why VLC would crash. >> >> To open a folder just highlight the folder and navigate to the open button. >> >> David Griffith >> >> On 10/01/2015 21:38, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for >>> the one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play the folder. David Griffith > On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I > need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does > that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith >> wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you >> are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take >> the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have >> to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder >> size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command >> A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the >> selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is >> the default player for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VL
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this does work and it works great! last night I tried it and played the folder for several hours. the only problem I had is that about every 2 or 3 songs VLC would stop. when I would tell it to go to the next track, it would, but it would start a measure or 2 in from the beginning of the song. maybe it’s the screen saver settings, I don’t know but I’m probably going to have my computer tech come over here and figure it out because I don’t have any readily available sighted help here. I did adjust the screen saver settings but I’m still having trouble. the rest is solved though so many thanks to you and David for sticking with me on this. > On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Okay, this does work. Because it says "open file" when you do cmd-o, I didn't > realize this would work for folders. > > Open vlc. > Do cmd-o. > You will be in a dialog where you have to choose a folder. Choose the folder > that would either be the one you want or would have that folder under it from > the pop-up. Then interact with the browser or list view or whatever you have > set in finder, and find the folder you want. Stop interacting and > vo-right-arrow to "open". This should indeed play everything in the folder > and its subfolders. Much easier than using terminal. > > If vlc is crashing, I would say maybe you have other files mixed in with your > music files. I don't really know if that would cause the crashing or slowness > between songs but maybe it would. I run large folders with lots of subfolders > and songs, both from terminal and with a playlist and I don't have delays. I > am pretty sure the cmd-o method should work also. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 10, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I might be missing something here but thefts time I did that, opened a folder > from the menu it just opened as it would if I did command-down arrow and > showed me the subfolders inside. nothing about playing it. that’s why I was > looking for “open with” the way you can do with a single sound file but that > option doesn’t seem to be there. > > if I’m in VLC and I press command-o then what would I do to highlight the > folder I wanted it to play? >> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> >> I am not sure why VLC would crash. >> >> To open a folder just highlight the folder and navigate to the open button. >> >> David Griffith >> >> On 10/01/2015 21:38, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for >>> the one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play the folder. David Griffith > On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I > need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does > that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith >> wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you >> are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take >> the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have >> to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder >> size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command >> A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the >> selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is >> the default player for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and >> press return and this will do the same thing. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started >>> playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to >>> go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t >>> wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 >>> or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some >>> setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think ma
Re: coaching in terminal
Okay, this does work. Because it says "open file" when you do cmd-o, I didn't realize this would work for folders. Open vlc. Do cmd-o. You will be in a dialog where you have to choose a folder. Choose the folder that would either be the one you want or would have that folder under it from the pop-up. Then interact with the browser or list view or whatever you have set in finder, and find the folder you want. Stop interacting and vo-right-arrow to "open". This should indeed play everything in the folder and its subfolders. Much easier than using terminal. If vlc is crashing, I would say maybe you have other files mixed in with your music files. I don't really know if that would cause the crashing or slowness between songs but maybe it would. I run large folders with lots of subfolders and songs, both from terminal and with a playlist and I don't have delays. I am pretty sure the cmd-o method should work also. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 10, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I might be missing something here but thefts time I did that, opened a folder from the menu it just opened as it would if I did command-down arrow and showed me the subfolders inside. nothing about playing it. that’s why I was looking for “open with” the way you can do with a single sound file but that option doesn’t seem to be there. if I’m in VLC and I press command-o then what would I do to highlight the folder I wanted it to play? > On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I am not sure why VLC would crash. > > To open a folder just highlight the folder and navigate to the open button. > > David Griffith > > On 10/01/2015 21:38, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for the >> one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? >>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: >>> >>> No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will >>> play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play >>> the folder. >>> >>> David Griffith On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you > are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to > use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size > if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in > the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected > files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the > default player for the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and > press return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started >> playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to >> go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t >> wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or >> more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some >> setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe >> the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when >>> you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start >>> with the directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you >>> can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can >>> probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash >>> after that and no space so you would have to space be
Re: coaching in terminal
I might be missing something here but thefts time I did that, opened a folder from the menu it just opened as it would if I did command-down arrow and showed me the subfolders inside. nothing about playing it. that’s why I was looking for “open with” the way you can do with a single sound file but that option doesn’t seem to be there. if I’m in VLC and I press command-o then what would I do to highlight the folder I wanted it to play? > On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:48 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I am not sure why VLC would crash. > > To open a folder just highlight the folder and navigate to the open button. > > David Griffith > > On 10/01/2015 21:38, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for the >> one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? >>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: >>> >>> No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will >>> play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play >>> the folder. >>> >>> David Griffith On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you > are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to > use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size > if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in > the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected > files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the > default player for the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and > press return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started >> playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to >> go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t >> wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or >> more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some >> setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe >> the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when >>> you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start >>> with the directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you >>> can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can >>> probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash >>> after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the >>> directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab >>> and it should compete /Applications with a slash after that and of >>> course then you can start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should >>> echo enough for you to know what you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions >>> about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does >>> not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax >>> incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before >>> that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am >>> I missing? >>> >>> T
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I am not sure why VLC would crash. To open a folder just highlight the folder and navigate to the open button. David Griffith On 10/01/2015 21:38, Lorie McCloud wrote: if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for the one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play the folder. David Griffith On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for the files you want to play. Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press return and this will do the same thing. David Griffith On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what you are doing. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? Thanks. Lorie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mac
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It is in System Preferencesfor your Mac, available from either your Dock or the Appple menu. David Griffith10/01/2015 21:29, Lorie McCloud wrote: can you tell me where those energy saver settings are? are they in VLC or somewhere else? On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:37 AM, David Griffith wrote: I think there may be solutions for you’re problems. 1. VLC stopping. I think this may be because you have a screensaver/energy settings set up which will interfere with the playing of VLC. In my case I addressed this by putting all these settings onto an hour rather than the default and VLC works fine for that time at least. There may be another work around and I wish VLC ignores the energy/screensaver settings but that seems not to be the case. 2. I think you can do what you want to do with VLC in terms of playing multiple sub ,foldersbut it would take a little setting up. A one off investment of effort would be necessary. To deal with the issue with your sub folders you could do the following. Just how feasible this is depends on the number of sub folders I guess. a. Open VLC by going to Finder and locate the first sub folder and pressing command A and command down arrow to create the temporary playlist as normal. b. Press space in VLC to pause the playing. c. command tab back to Finder and then open and then add the next sub folder to your temporary playlist,. Repeat the process. Now continue to press space to pause VLC playing as each folder is added then command tab back to Finder to add each sub folder and sub folder to the growing temporary playlist you have created. d. Eventually you will have a giant temporary playlist which will include all your sub folders. Finally add all the individual tracks you want to the mega temporary playlist. Again just opening them from Finder whilst VLC is open will add them to the temporary playlist VLC is creating. E. The final step of course is to save this playlist as a real Playlist with Command S,. Give it a name , ;and location and opening this single playlist file in future should allow you randomised access to all the music you require. David Griffith folder y On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:33, Lorie McCloud wrote: some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in the time I have to listen. On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for the files you want to play. Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press return and this will do the same thing. David Griffith On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directo
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well, I checked that so it wouldn’t keep p[laying the same songs over and over again. I’ll experiment some more. > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:27 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Hmmm, there just has to be a reason why it is stopping instead of continuing > to play; you shouldn't have to be manually moving it on to the nextsong. > Maybe get rid of the stop when done - probably not exact wording but i'm not > looking at it at the moment. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did > the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in > its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle > a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context > menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. > your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in > it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a > lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random > checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically > that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in > the time I have to listen. >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >> for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press >> return and this will do the same thing. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >>> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >>> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as >>> I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a >>> lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to >>> get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >>> >>> TThanks. On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what you are doing. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the sy
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yeah. that’s exactly what I did. I need to experiment with how to play them once they’re saved now. > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:24 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You want to save it as an extended m3u fall; it should end in .m3u. At least > that's how I always save them. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > ok. sorry. I just saw this. I did have it set on random. I’ll try opening it > from the already created playlist and see if that helps any. there were > several different ways to save it. I hope I picked the right one. lol. >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> Hey, that's great! congrats on getting the commands in and working! >> >> Hmmm, I have a lot of large folders within other folders and it doesn't stop >> between songs for me so I'm not sure what the problem might be. It also >> shouldn't get stuck in one album though it will play things in order so >> everything in one album will be played before it moves on to another album. >> I don't know if it might quit pausing between songs if you go ahead with >> making it an actual playlist and then open from the playlist file instead of >> running directly from terminal but you might try that. If what you are >> wanting is shuffling, I haven't done that but somebody else on the list may >> be able to tell you whether or not this is possible. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I >> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can >>> tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably >>> tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and >>> no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same >>> with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >>> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >>> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >>> you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >>> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >>> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >>> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >>> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Lorie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>
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if I open VLC first, how do I get to my folders? while I was looking for the one I wanted, VLC crashed. how do I highlight a folder once VLC is open? > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will > play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play the > folder. > > David Griffith >> On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need >> to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that >> matter when it’s a folder I’m after? >>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: >>> >>> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >>> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >>> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >>> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >>> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >>> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >>> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >>> for the files you want to play. >>> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and >>> press return and this will do the same thing. >>> >>> David Griffith On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you > open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an > exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you > can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can > probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after > that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. > The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should > compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can > start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to > know what you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions > about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not > exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax > incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before > that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I > missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this gr
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can you tell me where those energy saver settings are? are they in VLC or somewhere else? > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:37 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > I think there may be solutions for you’re problems. > > 1. VLC stopping. I think this may be because you have a screensaver/energy > settings set up which will interfere with the playing of VLC. In my case I > addressed this by putting all these settings onto an hour rather than the > default and VLC works fine for that time at least. There may be another work > around and I wish VLC ignores the energy/screensaver settings but that seems > not to be the case. > 2. I think you can do what you want to do with VLC in terms of playing > multiple sub ,foldersbut it would take a little setting up. A one off > investment of effort would be necessary. To deal with the issue with your > sub folders you could do the following. Just how feasible this is depends > on the number of sub folders I guess. > a. Open VLC by going to Finder and locate the first sub folder and > pressing command A and command down arrow to create the temporary playlist > as normal. > b. Press space in VLC to pause the playing. > c. command tab back to Finder and then open and then add the next sub folder > to your temporary playlist,. > Repeat the process. Now continue to press space to pause VLC playing as > each folder is added then command tab back to Finder to add each sub > folder and sub folder to the growing temporary playlist you have created. > d. Eventually you will have a giant temporary playlist which will include > all your sub folders. Finally add all the individual tracks you want to the > mega temporary playlist. Again just opening them from Finder whilst VLC is > open will add them to the temporary playlist VLC is creating. > E. The final step of course is to save this playlist as a real Playlist with > Command S,. Give it a name , ;and location and opening this single playlist > file in future should allow you randomised access to all the music you > require. > > David Griffith > folder y >> On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:33, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did >> the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in >> its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle >> a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the >> context menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play >> in”. your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual >> songs in it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it >> stops a lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have >> random checked and also stop when everything has been played although >> technically that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to >> be played in the time I have to listen. >>> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: >>> >>> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >>> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >>> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >>> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >>> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >>> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >>> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >>> for the files you want to play. >>> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and >>> press return and this will do the same thing. >>> >>> David Griffith On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you > open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an > exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you > can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you ca
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I think there may be solutions for you’re problems. 1. VLC stopping. I think this may be because you have a screensaver/energy settings set up which will interfere with the playing of VLC. In my case I addressed this by putting all these settings onto an hour rather than the default and VLC works fine for that time at least. There may be another work around and I wish VLC ignores the energy/screensaver settings but that seems not to be the case. 2. I think you can do what you want to do with VLC in terms of playing multiple sub ,foldersbut it would take a little setting up. A one off investment of effort would be necessary. To deal with the issue with your sub folders you could do the following. Just how feasible this is depends on the number of sub folders I guess. a. Open VLC by going to Finder and locate the first sub folder and pressing command A and command down arrow to create the temporary playlist as normal. b. Press space in VLC to pause the playing. c. command tab back to Finder and then open and then add the next sub folder to your temporary playlist,. Repeat the process. Now continue to press space to pause VLC playing as each folder is added then command tab back to Finder to add each sub folder and sub folder to the growing temporary playlist you have created. d. Eventually you will have a giant temporary playlist which will include all your sub folders. Finally add all the individual tracks you want to the mega temporary playlist. Again just opening them from Finder whilst VLC is open will add them to the temporary playlist VLC is creating. E. The final step of course is to save this playlist as a real Playlist with Command S,. Give it a name , ;and location and opening this single playlist file in future should allow you randomised access to all the music you require. David Griffith folder y > On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:33, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did > the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in > its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle > a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context > menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. > your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in > it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a > lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random > checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically > that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in > the time I have to listen. >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >> for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press >> return and this will do the same thing. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >>> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >>> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as >>> I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a >>> lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to >>> get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >>> >>> TThanks. On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete /Applications wit
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Hmmm, there just has to be a reason why it is stopping instead of continuing to play; you shouldn't have to be manually moving it on to the nextsong. Maybe get rid of the stop when done - probably not exact wording but i'm not looking at it at the moment. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in the time I have to listen. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are > having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use > Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I > want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder > folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a > temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for > the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press > return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I >> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can >>> tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably >>> tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and >>> no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same >>> with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >>> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >>> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >>> you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >>> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >>> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >>> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >>> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Lorie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>
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You want to save it as an extended m3u fall; it should end in .m3u. At least that's how I always save them. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: ok. sorry. I just saw this. I did have it set on random. I’ll try opening it from the already created playlist and see if that helps any. there were several different ways to save it. I hope I picked the right one. lol. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Hey, that's great! congrats on getting the commands in and working! > > Hmmm, I have a lot of large folders within other folders and it doesn't stop > between songs for me so I'm not sure what the problem might be. It also > shouldn't get stuck in one album though it will play things in order so > everything in one album will be played before it moves on to another album. I > don't know if it might quit pausing between songs if you go ahead with making > it an actual playlist and then open from the playlist file instead of running > directly from terminal but you might try that. If what you are wanting is > shuffling, I haven't done that but somebody else on the list may be able to > tell you whether or not this is possible. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing > right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next > track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I > wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot > of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it > to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? > > TThanks. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more opt
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No it does not matter. If you highlight the file and press return it will play that file. If you highlight the folder and press return it will play the folder. David Griffith > On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:39, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need > to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that > matter when it’s a folder I’m after? >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >> for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press >> return and this will do the same thing. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >>> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >>> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as >>> I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a >>> lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to >>> get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >>> >>> TThanks. On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what you are doing. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? Thanks. Lorie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> ema
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am I correct in assuming that if I open vlc and press command-o that I need to browse for the folder I want to playy? it says: “open file” does that matter when it’s a folder I’m after? > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are > having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use > Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I > want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder > folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a > temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for > the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press > return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I >> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can >>> tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably >>> tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and >>> no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same >>> with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >>> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >>> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >>> you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >>> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >>> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >>> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >>> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Lorie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
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some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in the time I have to listen. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are > having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use > Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I > want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder > folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a > temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for > the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press > return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I >> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can >>> tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably >>> tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and >>> no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same >>> with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >>> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >>> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >>> you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >>> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >>> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >>> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >>> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Lorie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvision
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ok. sorry. I just saw this. I did have it set on random. I’ll try opening it from the already created playlist and see if that helps any. there were several different ways to save it. I hope I picked the right one. lol. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Hey, that's great! congrats on getting the commands in and working! > > Hmmm, I have a lot of large folders within other folders and it doesn't stop > between songs for me so I'm not sure what the problem might be. It also > shouldn't get stuck in one album though it will play things in order so > everything in one album will be played before it moves on to another album. I > don't know if it might quit pausing between songs if you go ahead with making > it an actual playlist and then open from the playlist file instead of running > directly from terminal but you might try that. If what you are wanting is > shuffling, I haven't done that but somebody else on the list may be able to > tell you whether or not this is possible. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing > right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next > track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I > wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot > of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it > to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? > > TThanks. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group
Re: coaching in terminal
I did save the playlist right after I created it. I was asking about what might be causing the player to stop often and to not really random very well. Thanks. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > The cmd-o may work. The cmd-down-arrow does not appear to work if the folder > has subfolders and I believe this is why the Terminal is being used. It has > also already been discussed that once the folder is loaded a permanent > playlist can be created and then there would be no further need for Terminal > for that folder. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are > having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the > Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use > Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I > want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder > folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a > temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for > the files you want to play. > Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press > return and this will do the same thing. > > David Griffith >> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I >> wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot >> of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it >> to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >> >> TThanks. >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>> >>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>> >>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>> >>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>> >>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can >>> tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably >>> tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and >>> no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same >>> with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >>> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >>> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >>> you are doing. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >>> >>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >>> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >>> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >>> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >>> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Lorie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em
Re: coaching in terminal
The cmd-o may work. The cmd-down-arrow does not appear to work if the folder has subfolders and I believe this is why the Terminal is being used. It has also already been discussed that once the folder is loaded a permanent playlist can be created and then there would be no further need for Terminal for that folder. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith wrote: I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for the files you want to play. Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press return and this will do the same thing. David Griffith > On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing > right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next > track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I > wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot > of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it > to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? > > TThanks. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >
Re: coaching in terminal
Hey, that's great! congrats on getting the commands in and working! Hmmm, I have a lot of large folders within other folders and it doesn't stop between songs for me so I'm not sure what the problem might be. It also shouldn't get stuck in one album though it will play things in order so everything in one album will be played before it moves on to another album. I don't know if it might quit pausing between songs if you go ahead with making it an actual playlist and then open from the playlist file instead of running directly from terminal but you might try that. If what you are wanting is shuffling, I haven't done that but somebody else on the list may be able to tell you whether or not this is possible. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 9, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV
Re: coaching in terminal
I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player for the files you want to play. Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press return and this will do the same thing. David Griffith > On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing > right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next > track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I > wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot > of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it > to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? > > TThanks. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? TThanks. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
It doesn't matter what folder it is in as long as yu type the path correctly. Yes, the names are case sensitive; you have to type them as they are. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: do the capital letters make any difference? I’ve got a music folder that’s in another folder because it was transferred into this computer from another one. I could probably pick up the contents and move it into the music folder that’s on this computer but it’s pretty large. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
Oh, Commands are also case sensitive in Terminal. Gary On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > do the capital letters make any difference? I’ve got a music folder that’s in > another folder because it was transferred into this computer from another > one. I could probably pick up the contents and move it into the music folder > that’s on this computer but it’s pretty large. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
Yes, Terminal files and folders are case sensitive. Gary On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > do the capital letters make any difference? I’ve got a music folder that’s in > another folder because it was transferred into this computer from another > one. I could probably pick up the contents and move it into the music folder > that’s on this computer but it’s pretty large. >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >> directory. For instance from my home directory: >> >> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >> >> I made this up but this should give you an example. >> >> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact >> example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to >> have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it >> will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so >> you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with >> /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete >> /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start >> VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what >> you are doing. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: >> >> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about >> how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. >> it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as >> far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the >> name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
do the capital letters make any difference? I’ve got a music folder that’s in another folder because it was transferred into this computer from another one. I could probably pick up the contents and move it into the music folder that’s on this computer but it’s pretty large. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: coaching in terminal
You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the directory. For instance from my home directory: open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical I made this up but this should give you an example. If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what you are doing. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? Thanks. Lorie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
coaching in terminal
I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? Thanks. Lorie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
