Listening to music in the CLI

[linuxnewbie05]

I want to make my linux machine command line only for a while. I know how to do that buy now. The question is how can i listen to music in CLI. Or maybe should i be asking where can i get a music player that will do that. right now im using xmms in Xwindows. Thanks

[Modorf]

g4l

mpg123

[Hmse]

mplayer

[happybunny]

mp3blaster

[serz]

mpg123 or mp3blaster (very user-friendly, it has an interface).

[retsaw]

My prefered music player is mpd (music player daemon), it runs in the background and you then have a choice of frontends that you can use to control it...

mpc (cli)
ncmpc (curses based interface)
gmpc (gui interface)
foxytunes (firefox/thunderbird extension)

...and more aswell.

The downside is that you have to set it up before you can use it and need to add songs to your music database before you can listen to them, but unless you are constanly adding new songs it isn't a big deal. But the advantages of not needing to be logged in for your music to play, automatic resumption of the last playing tune after you reboot (optional) and being able to choose what frontend I use to control it outways it's disadvantages.

[janet loves bill]

I have a 10 gig partition filled with .ogg file and use mplayer via CLI to play them.......when I'm not sure what song I want to listen to, I activate this script I wrote to pick a song at random and poof......music
it can be run from CLI or GUI.....

#!/bin/bash
#random-ogg: play a random file from jukebox
mount /dev/hda8  #change this to your drive
cd /linux/  #change this to your mount point
filename=$(find -type f | 
     gawk 'BEGIN{ 
     srand() 
}
{     
     names[NR]=$0
}
      END{ i=1+int(rand()*NR)
      print names[i]
} 
')
echo "$filename"
mplayer "$filename"  #change this to use XMMS, kaboodle, etc

[psych-major]

I use mpg123 to play mp3's via a remote ssh session.

First, create a playlist:

find /mnt/Music -name '*.mp3' >/mnt/Music/playlist.m3u

Then play with shuffle from the newly created playlist:

mpg123 -vCzyb1024 -@playlist.m3u

mpg123 options:
v - verbose
C - enable control keys
z - shuffle (Alternatively, you can just cd to a music directory and run -Z)
y - try to resync on broken file or stream
b - buffer
1024 - buffer size
@ - specify playlist file (you can replace the * in the find command with a keyword or artist name to build specialized playlists)

If you can get the URL of a streaming mp3 feed from the internet, you can save it in a text file with a .m3u extension and play it the same way.

And don't forget alsamixer to control the volume...

[Floog]

Originally posted by linuxnewbie05
The question is how can i listen to music in CLI. Or maybe should i be asking where can i get a music player that will do that.

Ogg Whips The Llamas ***!!

Commandline Player: ogg123

Enjoy,

Mike

Man-page: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/ogg123.1.html

Examples:

The ogg123 command line is fairly flexible, perhaps confusingly so. Here are some sample command lines and an explanation of what they do.

Play on the default soundcard:

ogg123 test.ogg

Play all of the files in the directory ~/music and its subdirectories.

ogg123 ~/music

Play a file using the OSS driver:

ogg123 -d oss test.ogg

Pass the "dsp" option to the OSS driver:

ogg123 -d oss -o dsp:/dev/mydsp

Use the ESD driver

ogg123 -d esd test.ogg

Use the WAV driver with the output file, "test.wav":

ogg123 -d wav -f test.wav test.ogg

Listen to a file while you write it to a WAV file:

ogg123 -d oss -d wav -f test.wav test.ogg

Note that options apply to the device declared to the left:

ogg123 -d oss -o dsp:/dev/mydsp -d raw -f test2.raw -o byteorder:big test.ogg

Stress test your harddrive:

ogg123 -d oss -d wav -f 1.wav -d wav -f 2.wav -d wav -f 3.wav -d wav -f 4.wav -d wav -f 5.wav test.ogg

Create an echo effect with esd and a slow computer:

ogg123 -d esd -d esd test.ogg

[JThundley]

I use ogg123 and mpg123, and here's a script that I wrote to play all my music randomly, I just hit ctrl-C to go to the next song, hit it twice to quit. I also use this script to wake me up in the morning. And to everyone that knows bash: is this the ugliest hack or what?

I forget which one I currently use, so I'll post both, justlinux isn't letting me upload them
randommusic.sh:

#!/bin/bash
#plays random music

while : ; do
        if test -z "$file"; then
                #file=$(locate /home/share/Music | sed -n "$RANDOM"p | grep .)
                file=$(find /home/share/Music | sed -n "$RANDOM"p | grep .)
                echo -n '.'
        else
                if file "$file" | grep Ogg &> /dev/null && ogg123 "$file" && file= && echo -n "Searching "; then
                 :
                else
                        mpg123 "$file" && file= && echo -n "Searching "
                fi
        fi
done

randommusic2.sh:

#!/bin/bash
# plays random music

# Set this to the dir where your music is, with or without a leading slash.
MUSICDIR=/home/jt/Music/

# Get the total number of songs (including dirs, which will be ignored)
TOTALFILES=`find $MUSICDIR | wc -l`

# This is the loop that will keep the music playing forever
while : ; do
        # get out of this loop with a file from $MUSICDIR
        while test -z "$file"; do
                # keep generating a random number until we get one that is less than the number of TOTALFILES
                until [ "$goodrandom" -lt "$TOTALFILES" ] &>/dev/null; do
                        goodrandom=$RANDOM
                        # echo this dot for a crude spinner
                        echo -n .
                done
                # Extract the file from line $goodrandom
                file=$(find "$MUSICDIR" | sed -n "$goodrandom"p)
        done

        if file "$file" | grep Ogg &> /dev/null; then
                ogg123 "$file"
        elif file "$file" | grep MP3 &>/dev/null; then
                mpg123 "$file"
        fi
        unset file
        echo -n "Searching "
done

[Licaon]

use:
madplay --tty-control -r -z -v <path>

--tty-control - control with the keyboard
-r - repeat
-z - shuffle
-v - verbose

<path> eg.: /storage/mymusic/*mp3
this way u get all the files, in all subdirectories

[jacobb]

I recommend alsaplayer