Re: [LAU] use your pc as an music player (and safe energy)

david wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>> david wrote:
>>
>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> david wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there a command line multimedia music player?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If by multimedia you mean audio + video I am not sure, there is
>>>>>>>> mplayer but it does not do playlists as far as I know,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mplayer -playlist NameOfPlaylistHere
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It supports a simple one-file-per-line playlist. An article on
>>>>>>> Linux Journal says it also supports ASX, M3U and other popular
>>>>>>> playlist formats.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> And is it possible to switch to, for example number 12 of the list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I have no idea!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Then this is a disadvantage compared to using a gui. But isn't it
>>>> possible to solve this?
>>>>
>>> I have no idea unless there's some kind of programming interface to
>>> mplayer that could be used?
>>>
>> alsaplayer used to have this functionality.
>>
>
> Hmmm, it started up a GUI when I tried installing it here. I think the
> original poster was looking for a CLI player.
>
>

 alsaplayer -i text

IIRC it also has support for scripting with python. Several people have
written fairly advanced g/uis for use in car audio systems and other
places where a button controlled interface is useful.

Cheers.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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