mplayer does a good job of playing from command line. there are times when i'm using my laptop and running on battery power only, and, to save on battery life, i use command line only.
(that does make sense right? command line only will extend the life of my battery?)
so in a terminal one can type mplayer * in a directory and it'll play all the files and if you add -shuffle it'll randomize it.
i have xmms and others, so i'm all set in GUI.
besides I like being at a coffee shop or airport and working in command line and people coming up to me and saying "What's wrong with your computer? With mine, at home, I don't even have to type anything!"
My friends come over and see yum update running or whatever and say "jeez your computer breaks down a lot" I love stuff like that.
one other thing, when running Gnome on my laptop I've had people say "mac user huh?"
guess it's the layout of the toolbars.. i'm rambling now...
mike h
>----
>how much mplayer did you get installed?
>
># rpm -qa|grep mplayer
>mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at
>mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at
>mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at
>mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at
>mplayerplug-in-2.75-18.rhfc3.at
>
>If you have the 'skins' installed, then it is a fully 'faced' media
>player with which you can create playlists in a full gui.
>
>if you want to drive it from command line...
>
>mplayer --help will show you -playlist option to play a list from a file
>
>but I suspect that you might be able to just 'pipe' a list from standard
>in (see, those who taught me last week will realize that I wasn't
>sleeping through the lesson)...
>
>echo "band1/file.mp3 band2/file.mp3" | mplayer -shuffle (but I don't see
>shuffle as an option)
>
>Note that my packages have 'at' which tells me they came from Axel
>Thimms repository.
>
>Good time to make a pitch for smartpm.org ;-)
>
>Lastly, Movie Player (mplayer) is probably a little overweight for
>playing list of mp3's
>
>if you have xmms-mp3 installed (yum install xmms-mp3 if not installed),
>then you might find more versatility for playing mp3's
>
>Craig
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