Creating XMMS Playlist in Terminal

General_Tso · 03-18-2003, 05:14 PM

Hey, Folks:

Is there any way to create a playlist in XMMS consisting of a whole directory via the terminal? I have a ton of mp3s, and it's a little unruly to do it through Nautilus...

Thanks,

--Erich

acid_kewpie · 03-18-2003, 05:24 PM

should be easy enough, just look at a playlist in a text browser and write a simople script to parse a "find" output into that format. can't remember the format offhand though so i can't give an example.

bulliver · 03-18-2003, 06:04 PM

.m3u works for me. I've always just ls'd the directory and cut and paste into vim or whatever though...

General_Tso · 03-18-2003, 11:26 PM

Thanks, guys. I didn't know you could do that. That's pretty handy. I have one question, though. The file begins with #EXTM3U. Could I create other file types by identifying the extension that way in VIM?

--Erich

Aussie · 03-19-2003, 02:22 AM

Have a look at xmms-shell.

Glock Shooter · 03-19-2003, 01:51 PM

mp3blaster is a console based mp3 player that you can create playlists with.

General_Tso · 03-29-2003, 02:15 PM

[Edit: Misposted. Sorry.]

bulliver · 04-07-2003, 06:00 PM

I wrote a script that will prompt you for songs and add them to an .m3u playlist.

You just need to keep in mind that filepaths to songs need to be reletive to where the playlist will be ie: if the playlist will be in /home/music and the song you want to add is /home/music/atol/ab/song.ogg then you need to add the song as ./atol/ab/song.ogg, or else just use full paths...

It will work for oggs or mp3s, and you can add more songs to the playlist at a later time (it just appends them to the end) by putting in the name of a previous playlist when prompted for the playlist name.

So anyway....here it is:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#

echo -n "Enter playlist name: "
read playlist
echo -n "Enter directory to place the playlist: "
read listdir
genericvariable=0
while [ $genericvariable = 0 ]
do
	echo -n "Enter song to add to playlist (type 'done' if finished): "
	read file
	if [ ${file} = "done" ]; then
		echo "Thanks for using playlist generator"
		exit 0
	fi
	echo "${file}" | cat >> ${listdir}/${playlist}.m3u
done

General_Tso · 04-08-2003, 02:32 AM

That's really cool, bro. I'm going to have to start playing with scripts. I love that stuff. If any one comes across this post looking to learn scripts, here you go.

Thanks for sharing that.

--Erich

bulliver · 04-08-2003, 03:40 PM

Heres another, adds an entire directory to the playlist:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#

if [ ! $1 ]; then
        echo "Please specify a directory"
        exit 0
fi
echo -n "Enter playlist name: "
read name
echo -n "Enter full path to playlist directory: "
read listdir
dir=$1
for file in `ls -1tX $dir/*`
do
        echo "${file}" | cat >> ${listdir}/${name}.m3u
done
exit 0