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Commands using mpg123

Terminal - Commands using mpg123 - 18 results

ssh user@remote "cat /remote/music/dir/*.mp3" | mpg123 -

2013-02-15 20:03:21

User: erix

Functions: mpg123 ssh

Tags: ssh Linux mpg123

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Quick way to play remote audio files locally ( Linux )

This is just a quick and dirty way to play remote audio files *locally* in your PC.

The best way is to mount the remote Music directory into the local FS, say by using sshfs:

sshfs user@remote:/remote/music/dir/ /mnt/other_pc/

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while [[ 1 ]]; do n=( */* ); s=${n[$(($RANDOM%${#n[@]}))]}; echo -e " - $s"; mpg123 -q "$s"; done

2013-01-18 09:20:58

User: XayOn

Functions: echo mpg123

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Play all the music in a folder, on shuffle

Play files in shuffle mode with bash and mpg123.

Why bother using big-as-hell stuff like mplayer? This will play all your music files contained in */* (in my case author/song.format) with bash and mplayer showing a nice output.

check(){ power=$(acpi -a) ; if [[ $power == *on-line* ]] ; then echo "supply is on"; else echo "somebody is steeling your laptop"; amixer -c0 set Master 100+ unmute ; mpg123 nuclear-alarm.mp3 ; fi } ;while true; do check ; sleep 2 ; done

2011-12-10 13:42:52

User: hoodie

Functions: acpi amixer echo mpg123 set sleep

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Power Supply Triggered Alert

Checks whether your power supply is still plugged in.

If not it will trigger an alarm at maximum volume.

say() { curl -sA Mozilla -d q=`python3 -c 'from urllib.parse import quote_plus; from sys import stdin; print(quote_plus(stdin.read()[:100]))' <<<"$@"` 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts' | mpg123 -q -; }

2011-11-26 09:18:16

User: kev

Functions: mpg123

Tags: curl google mpg321 python3

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google tts

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p=$(echo "hello world, how r u?"|sed 's/ /+/g');wget -U Mozilla -q -O - "$@" translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en\&q=$p|mpg123 -

2011-09-19 23:06:15

User: jhansen

Functions: echo mpg123 sed wget

Tags: google google api speech text-to-speech text to speech

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Google text-to-speech in mp3 format

same but redirecting to player and putting whaever text line.. works on my ubuntu machine ...

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$ find . -iname *.mp3 | while read line ; do ln -s "$line" $(echo -e "$line" | openssl md5).mp3 ; done ; mpg123 *.mp3

2011-01-02 20:54:37

User: yababay

Functions: echo find ln mpg123 read

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Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer

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radio() { if [ "$(pidof mpg123)" ] ; then killall mpg123; else mpg123 -q -@ http://173.236.29.51:8200 & fi }

2010-11-14 16:27:04

User: houghi

Functions: killall mpg123

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Turning on and off Internet radio

Place it in your bashrc and running the command radio it will turn on or off each time it runs. Only one command needed. Obviously you can set it to any station you like.

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pronounce(){ wget -qO- $(wget -qO- "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/$@" | grep 'soundUrl' | head -n 1 | sed 's|.*soundUrl=$[^&]*$&.*|\1|' | sed 's/%3A/:/g;s/%2F/\//g') | mpg123 -; }

2010-03-13 04:23:56

User: matthewbauer

Functions: grep head mpg123 sed wget

Tags: audio sed wget eval pronounce aplay English dictionary dictionary.com

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Pronounce an English word using Dictionary.com

This one uses dictionary.com

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espeak "$USER" --stdout | sox - -t mp3 - reverse | mpg123 -

2010-03-08 02:53:24

User: matthewbauer

Functions: mpg123

Tags: backwards name

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Your name backwards

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mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -P -X -w -o output.m4b -

2010-03-06 11:28:19

User: schmiddim

Functions: mpg123

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conver mp3 to m4b

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#Client# cat "The Meters - People Say.mp3" | nc -vv 192.168.1.100 8080; #Server# nc -vv -l -s 192.168.1.100 -p 8080 | mpg123 -v -

2010-01-30 08:50:17

User: Abiden

Functions: cat mpg123

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Pipe music over netcat with mpg123

I think I picked this one up from Hak5 (yeah I know.. kinda lame)

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while [ "$(ls $filePart)" != "" ]; do sleep 5; done; mpg123 /home/.../warning.mp3

2009-12-06 10:55:09

User: mrttlemonde

Functions: mpg123 sleep

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Audible warning when a downloading is finished

This command can be set as an alias in ~/.bashrc

For example (in my case) I have :

alias watchDl='while [ "$(ls $filePart)" != "" ]; do sleep 5; done; mpg123 /home/.../warning.mp3" '

Then I just need to

- initialize filePart (e.g. filePart="*bigFile*rar.part")

- launch watchDl

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alias burnaudiocd='mkdir ./temp && for i in *.[Mm][Pp]3;do mpg123 -w "./temp/${i%%.*}.wav" "$i";done;cdrecord -pad ./temp/* && rm -r ./temp'

2009-11-21 19:57:18

User: eightmillion

Functions: alias mpg123 rm

Tags: alias cd mp3 record CDDA burn

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Burn a directory of mp3s to an audio cd.

This uses mpg123 to convert the files to wav before burning, but you can use mplayer or mencoder or ffmpeg or lame with the --decode option, or whatever you like.

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mpg123 `curl -s http://blip.fm/all | sed -e 's#"#\n#g' | grep mp3$ | xargs`

2009-11-07 14:48:01

User: torrid

Functions: grep mpg123 sed

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Play random music from blip.fm

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wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -b -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -| mpg123 -

2009-11-07 13:45:13

User: torrid

Functions: mpg123 wget

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Play music from youtube without download

mpg123 -s input.mp3 | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o output.m4b -

2009-08-30 13:15:37

User: linuxswords

Functions: mpg123

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convert mp3 into mb4 (audiobook format)

to convert a whole directory, put all mp3 files in a for loop

for i in $(ls *mp3); do mpg123 -s $i | faac -b 80 -P -X -w -o ${i%mp3}m4b -; done

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PLAYLIST=$(ls -1) ; mpg123 -C $PLAYLIST

2009-03-19 17:20:28

User: servermanaged

Functions: ls mpg123

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Store mp3 playlist on variable and play with mpg123

On my music directory, I create variable that contains all mp3s files, then I play them with mpg123. -C options enable terminal control key, s for stop, p for pause, f for forward to next song.

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mpg123 "`locate -r '\.mp3$'|awk '{a[NR]=$0}END{print a['"$RANDOM"' % NR]}'`"

2009-02-23 13:53:12

User: unixmonkey1730

Functions: mpg123

Tags: audio

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Random play a mp3 file

Pick a mp3 at random and play it.

Assumes the availability of locate with an updated db and mpg123

Not the most useful command I guess, but all of the really useful ones are taken...

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