On Friday 18 February 2005 10:25, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Mike Hoy wrote:
> > assuming i want to use mplayer in command line only how can i make a
> > shell script that plays all of my music files in my music/ directory
> > w/out having to specify each sub directory?
> >
> > So far I got this working:
> >
> > a file called playlist.sh:
> > mplayer -shuffle band1/*.mp3 band2/*mp3 band3/*.mp3
> >
> > this playlist would be fine, but often i add or remove sub dirs from
> > w/in my music/ directory
> >
> > and I specify *.mp3 so mplayer doesn't try to play anything buy mp3's
> >
> > thx
> >
> > mike hoy
>
> find music/ -name '*.mp3' -exec mplayer -shuffle {} \;
>
> Note, you probably want to add the full path to your music/ directory.

This would tell mplayer to shuffle the 1 song it sent, right?
This would pull each file, in alphabetical order, then tell mplayer to play 
it. It wouldn't shuffle. If find creates a list, then mplayer gets the list, 
it will shuffle through the whole list...





>
> find is very powerful. There is a whole slew of qualifiers you can
> specify to tailor the files you want to find. Of course, see man find.
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