Comments on: A substitute audio player

By: A Debian server at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Debian server at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:01:16 +0000

[...] one, it too suffers from stuttering music playback with both mocp and other console-based media players, let alone the graphical ones. I have seen this on three different machines now and a half-dozen [...]

By: Sound’s ironic « Motho ke motho ka botho

Sound’s ironic « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:04:34 +0000

[...] and pauses, much as it did in Debian with the same setup, or in Crux with mocp, or even with Orpheus — although to be honest, that last one was probably the best. mpd is particularly [...]

By: Jose Catre-Vandis

Jose Catre-Vandis — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:43:51 +0000

Damn, sorry. You need to add this as the first line to the script:

####################
touch ${PWD##*/}.m3u
####################

By: Jose Catre-Vandis

Jose Catre-Vandis — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:41:23 +0000

Making playlists a “simple” script
(went away and figured it out myself with help from code snippets scattered around the interweb)

##################
#!/bin/bash
export IFS=$’\n’
for i in $(find $1 -name “*.mp3″ -type f)
do
echo “$i” |sed ‘s/..$.*$/\1/’ >> ${PWD##*/}.m3u
done

shuf ${PWD##*/}.m3u > ${PWD##*/}2.m3u
shuf ${PWD##*/}2.m3u > ${PWD##*/}.m3u
rm ${PWD##*/}2.m3u
###################

You can leave out the last three lines if you don’t want to shuffle the list.

This can also be turned into a thunar custom action if you like that sort of thing

By: Jose Catre-Vandis

Jose Catre-Vandis — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:12:21 +0000

Really liking orpheus, not having all the bells and whistles that moc has but does the job nevertheless. I like the remote function too. Not sure how you would start it up in the background yet, but will figure that out.

Any easy way to make playlists from a folder/directory (without using a player to load and create? Thinking of a simple command line solution? (also to bear in mind that all my music is accessed remotely via nfs shares.