Here’s a really quick way to add all the mp3’s in your home directory into a playlist that mplayer likes.
find /home/<your-username-here> -name "*.mp3" -print > playlist.txt
And then it’s a simple matter of…
mplayer -playlist playlist.txt
Simple, huh?
If you want to get a little fancier you can add -quiet, or -really-quiet to suppress player messages. Really handy if you’re using mplayer in a cron script.
If you, further, want to randomize your playlist, just add -shuffle to the commanline and you’ll randomly play back every mp3 file in your home directory.
Maybe I should start a mplayer tips list.
Posted by Philip McClure in Linux on December 07, 2003