Playing MP3s with out a desktop environment

Smith oo4 · 2008-01-04 19:55:08

Can anyone recommend a good command line program for playing MP3s? I am looking for a simple program that will run in the background, in which I tell it the directory where my music is saved, and it then randomly plays the music. It would also be nice to be able to query the song information every once in a while.
Thank you

somairotevoli · 2008-01-04 19:57:57

mpd
http://musicpd.org/

darkarchon · 2008-01-04 20:45:39

also try moc

peets · 2008-01-04 23:06:21

Lately I've heard people talking about cmus and am tempted to give it a try. Usually I use mpd, but its downside is that you have to import the files into its database to be able to play them. For quick-and-dirty command-line play I've been using mplayer. Because I can.

SiD · 2008-01-04 23:34:41

mpd + ncmpc

avoulk · 2008-01-04 23:41:00

mpd +1

JoeBob · 2008-01-04 23:49:15

cmus all the way. I even use it in X because it's the best music player I've ever tried.

Dheart · 2008-01-05 07:55:30

moc... BTW the executable is mocp.

smoon · 2008-01-05 11:07:44

I wonder why nobody ever mentions XMMS2 in this kind of threads. Personally, I think it is superior to mpd, so I suggest you give it a try: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Main_Page.

[vEX] · 2008-01-05 12:28:30

I also vote for MPD + mpc and/or ncmpc, it's pretty slick.

Agent69 · 2008-01-05 15:28:35

I use MPD myself. I like it because it is faceless and because I can use Conky as a status monitor. I really like ncmpc as a client, but I have started to use mpc more and more.

ido · 2008-01-05 16:37:34

Another vote for mpd+ncmpc.

Smith oo4 · 2008-01-05 18:00:01

Thank you for your advice, I will give them a try today.
Morgan Smith

barry · 2008-01-05 18:07:40

mpd+ncmpc here too.

peets · 2008-01-05 19:33:06

smoon wrote:

I wonder why nobody ever mentions XMMS2 in this kind of threads. Personally, I think it is superior to mpd, so I suggest you give it a try: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Main_Page.

Hey, you're right, it does look really interesting. I will definitely give it a try. I just installed cmus, but it's quite buggy (some garbage gets printed, and sometimes it just stops playing and responding altogether). Plus, it has to sit in a console, it doesn't "go headless".

lucke · 2008-01-05 19:36:32

moc can be detached.

Ramses de Norre · 2008-01-05 20:36:57

peets wrote:

Usually I use mpd, but its downside is that you have to import the files into its database to be able to play them.

Support for playing files outside the db is in the roadmap, they don't say anything about a completion date or version though.

stonecrest · 2008-01-05 21:22:36

Ramses de Norre wrote:

peets wrote:
Usually I use mpd, but its downside is that you have to import the files into its database to be able to play them.
Support for playing files outside the db is in the roadmap, they don't say anything about a completion date or version though.

Better yet, there is a mpd-updater daemon that uses inotify to automatically update your database on file changes. It still needs a little finessing (for example, I believe it updates your entire db on a file change when all it needs to do is update the single file), but it works fine. I hope it will eventually make it into mpd, but I've bugged mpd devs about it a few times and haven't made much progress.

https://svn.musicpd.org/mpd-updater/

bionnaki · 2008-01-07 07:41:13

why mpd over moc? moc is great.

dir · 2008-01-07 09:36:32

moc.

bionnaki · 2008-01-07 10:32:52

http://polishlinux.org/apps/cli/moc-aud … ed-tricks/

eyolf · 2008-01-07 11:02:26

+1 for moc. I have nothing against mpc, though

WiLLiE · 2008-01-07 16:45:59

mpd/ncmpc.

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