Trying unsuccessfully to make launcher for mpg123

holadebeto · 08-09-2011, 06:41 PM

I want to make a launcher that will shuffle play my mp3?s in a folder called /home/music.

I've tried many combinations like
mpg123 /home/music/*.mp3 -Z
and have spent some time on google trying to figure out where I'm going wrong.

Everything works hunkey dorkey in the terminal, but I need to be in the directory before mpg123 will work.

Thank you.

knudfl · 08-10-2011, 02:42 AM

Welcome to LQ.

I guess, you will have to make a "play script" that can be executed by a launcher.

'play-mpg123' :

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cd /home/<name>/Music

mpg123 -Z *.mp3

Make the script executable, and copy it to /usr/local/bin/
And write play-mpg123 in the launcher.

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holadebeto · 08-10-2011, 06:51 AM

Thank you knudfl!

Now I'll go back to studying how to make a bash script executable. Learning Linux is cool. Will get back to you later.