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?

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.