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Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer

Terminal - Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer
rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing
2010-03-23 21:33:44
User: hhanff
Functions: find grep rm
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Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer

The command first deletes any old playlist calles playlist.tmp under /tmp. After that it recursively searches all direcotries under ~/mp3 and stores the result in /tmp/playlist.tmp. After havin created the playlist, the command will execute mplayer which will shuffle through the playlist.

This command is aliased to

m is aliased to `rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing'

in my ~/.bashrc.

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Terminal - Alternatives
$ 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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By the way: Can anybody figure out how to do the same thing without creating a temporary playlist? I tried to pass the results of find to mplayer via xargs, but then the keyboard controls of mplayer won't function any more....

Comment by hhanff 165 weeks and 1 day ago

What about 'find ~/mp3 -iname *.mp3 -exec mplayer -shuffle -loop {} \;' ? I am not at a *nix machine right now, so I can't test it, but something like this would not require a playlist.

Comment by philthomson 165 weeks and 1 day ago

The '-iname' option on find will help if you have mp3's where the extension is .MP3 as opposed to .mp3

Comment by philthomson 165 weeks and 1 day ago

My suggestion doesn't work, but I did google the problem with mplayer and found this: 'http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/xargs-mplayer-loses-key-controls-635170/' The suggested workaround only works for files with no spaces in them, but I'm sure there is some way to do it for all kinds of file names.

Comment by philthomson 165 weeks and 1 day ago

"find blablabla | mplayer -playlist -" will build a playlist from stdin. Also, you should write "\*.mp3" instead of simply "*.mp3", otherwise your shell will expand * before it gets to find, and find will get a list of *-mp3's in cwd

Comment by benjamin 165 weeks ago

@philtomson: I found the same page yesterday but had not idea how to make it work...

@ benjamin:

find ~/mp3 -name "*.mp3" | mplayer -playlist - -shuffle -loop 0

does not allow to control mplayer with keyboard any more.... e.g. "next song" by hitting return... :/

Here's a better version which filters out all "audio books":

rm -rf /tmp/playlist.tmp && find ~/mp3 -name *.mp3 -not -name 'H?rb?cher' > /tmp/playlist.tmp && mplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.tmp -shuffle -loop 0 | grep Playing
Comment by hhanff 165 weeks ago

Okay, this works:

for i in "$(find . -type d)";do d=( $i/*.mp3 ); files=( "${files[@]}" "${d[@]}" );done; mplayer -shuffle -loop 0 "${files[@]}"

ugly as hell though :D

Comment by benjamin 165 weeks ago

Sin!!! That's a big one...

Comment by hhanff 164 weeks and 6 days ago

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