Console based sound player?

kleptophobiac · 11-09-2003, 11:45 AM

I need a console based media player. Here's what I need:

wav support
mp3 support
CLI only
able to loop forever

Any suggestions?

trickykid · 11-09-2003, 11:51 AM

I do believe mpg123 supports all of this and from the CLI as well....

Pougan · 11-09-2003, 01:03 PM

Yea, mpg123 definitely roxorz. I'd look for more to suggest, but there isn't a need based on its awsomeness.

kleptophobiac · 11-09-2003, 01:19 PM

mpg123 doesn't do loop playback

slakmagik · 11-09-2003, 01:36 PM

Slack comes with alsautils, oggutils, flac, sox, amp, madplay, workbone, rexima, aumix, and cdparanoia and, I'm sure, other players, mixers, rippers, encoders, etc. It takes good care of the CLI audio junkie. Just poke about on your box. If you want to loop everything on your box for eternity, you might want to look into adding 'moosic' which is a CLI playlist/queue app - not a player, but plays players.

trickykid · 11-09-2003, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kleptophobiac
mpg123 doesn't do loop playback

You can always just do a random play which will pick songs randomly and never stop playing til manually stopped..

kleptophobiac · 11-09-2003, 07:31 PM

...and if I have exactly one file that I want it to play continously until the file is changed?

trickykid · 11-09-2003, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kleptophobiac
...and if I have exactly one file that I want it to play continously until the file is changed?

That would work as well using random since it only has one file to choose from, it will keep playing that same file.

kleptophobiac · 02-02-2004, 01:54 PM

I need something that can run as a daemon, so I can run it from through ssh, and then ssh will die.

Both nohup and & don't cut it. mpg123 dies as soon as ssh terminates.

kyelewis · 03-22-2004, 04:29 AM

Quote:

Both nohup and & don't cut it. mpg123 dies as soon as ssh terminates.

That's what screen is for

snacky · 03-22-2004, 04:43 AM

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but try

Code:

ssh machinename "mpg123 -Z /path/to/filename >& /dev/null &"&

Still don't understand exactly what you're trying to do though.

frieza · 03-22-2004, 09:56 AM

mp3blaster and ksmp3play... they're ncurses based and run verry well on the linux console

kleptophobiac · 04-02-2004, 07:52 AM

Do they have a daemon mode? I'd like it if there were no output whatsoever, and it could be detached from the console.

Kahless · 10-04-2004, 02:27 AM

sounds like he is trying to use this for a music on hold for a phone system?

screen mpg321

start your music

ctrl+x, ctrl+c

logout.

Speek · 10-04-2004, 01:01 PM

Check out music player daemon (mpd): www.musicpd.org