Handling wildcards...
 

Okay, I hope this is an at least halfway appropriate forum for my question:

I have my music in a folder home/gekko/tunes, most of them are spread across subfolders like /tunes/albumname but some are directly in the /tunes folder.
Now when I play music from the commandline using

I was hoping that the first of the two wildcards also included all the single mp3s directly in the tunes folder to my "playlist" - but for some reason it ignores them and only plays all the songs in all the subfolders back.

Is there any way I can change the path-expression to have all the files play back?

Two options come to mind (assuming all of your music files are named <something>.mp3):

That should be equivalent to:
Another option would be with the find command:
One thing to note: if your mp3's have spaces in their filenames, it might cause problems.

The second version you posted there (with both paths) works, but the first one somehow won't. Gave me a bash syntax-error first, I tinkered around a bit until replacing the () with [] got rid of the syntax error, but still it won't do.

comes up with "No such file or directory.

Is there perhaps still something wrong with the syntax? :confused:

For the first command... they're not parentheses: ()
they're curly braces: { }

:)

Give it a try with the braces.

Also, the third one should be this:

Awesome! That solves all my problems... ah well at least one of them... ;)

Now I'll go and read into that $ find -name whatever thing... looks useful :)

The find command is extremely useful. I would highly recommend taking the time to learn what it is capable of. The "-exec" option is extremely nice.

Also, as a quick FYI, the "$( )" sequence I used is a special syntax for the shell. It effectively means, intepret the text between "$(" and ")" as a command, then replace everything with the output of that command... another very handy thing to know.