Re: [RP] OT: Music player that doesn't suck?

[Justis Peters]

Hi Bjorn,

This may be way oversimplified, but since I listen only to MP3's, I use 
"mpg321" to play one song at a time.  The only catch with this is that if you 
run it twice, it plays both songs on top of each other.  Here is the BASH I 
wrote to take care of that:

#!/bin/bash

PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpg321"
PLAYER_OPTS="-o alsa09"

SONG=$1

PID=`/sbin/pidof -s $PLAYER`
if [ $PID ]
then
        echo "$PLAYER IS ALREADY RUNNING"
else
        $PLAYER $PLAYER_OPTS "$SONG"
fi


I name this script "playSong", and can do things like:
  for x in somePlaylistDirectory/*.mp3; do playSong "$x"; done


Enjoy!
Justis Peters

Bj?rn Lindstr?m address@hidden wrote:
> I'm looking for a good music player, and I thought this might be a good
> place to ask if you want something simplistic and keyboard-driven.
> 
> Currently I'm using (http://www.nanoo.org/~daniel/moosic/), which is a
> daemon/client solution. That's nice, since you can manage it from your
> shell of choice, and it doesn't stop playing just because X crashes.
> 
> It's kind of an ugly hack, though. It has a lot of limitations, and the
> code isn't really inviting.
> 
> So, does any of you people use something that might be a good
> alternative, or should I just go and write my own moosic clone?