On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:48:50PM -0600, Matthew Seeds wrote:
> mpg123 --list <(find /home/mtseeds/Music/ -name '*.mp3')
somehow i doubt this scales. how large is your playlist? i've got ~5k songs
in mine and i've yet to find a shell/OS that would allow me to pass them all
in argv[] without getting the error "argument list too long".
you are aware of the "-@" feature to mpg123 that uses an actual playlist
(.m3u, which is just a list of filenames, which could easily be the output
of a find command)? this scales indefinitely, at least past 5k songs =)
> command line. I'm trying to use madplay because I've discovered a couple of
> mp3's I have that mpg123 can't play, but madplay can. Any help would be
> appreciated.
i suspect that mpg123 has since fixed that bug (every once in awhile, i come
across some files that mpg123 doesn't like too and then i upgrade to whatever
the latest mpg123 is and all is well), so you might try downloading and
building the latest before giving up on it. mpg123 is all i've ever needed
for command-line mp3 playing on a huge variety of unix systems and it's rarely
let me down (never, in a way that wasn't fixed in short order).
also, i just discovered some hideous thing called 'mpg321' is masquerading
as mpg123 on my redhat-7.2 system. apparently mpg123 is "non-free" but it
is more featureful, and still free-like-beer, so you might want to make sure
you have the real mccoy. mpg123 is a fairly mature piece of software--i've
been using it for 4-5 years now at least.
finally, allow me to recommend the software 'irmp3' in addition to an irman
(http://www.evation.com/irman/index.html)
for remote control of a large playlist that has its own shuffle/back/fwd/etc
support, and requires 0 gui. hell, it doesn't even require a text console,
since it's daemonized. it allows with minor hackery playlist switches (i
had it setup to take a kill -USR1 and reload 'current.m3u' which i regenerated
with find periodically)
happy listening.
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