Hi, On 09/23/2010 03:29 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:42:01PM +0530, Rony wrote: >> I downloaded 'mpg123' from apt and created an executable script to run >> 'mpg123 song.mp3' and the script worked fine. Then I added it to the >> user cron job but it did not play without login. However the same script >> plays the song with the root's cron job without login. So if you don't >> have any allergy :-) towards running the script as root, the system works. > > MPG123!!! > That solved my issue. The problem was that I was using wrong program > (cvlc, ffplay, etc) for the task at hand. > > AND with mpg123, I don't need to run it with sudo or in root's cron. > Simply adding 'mpg123<song.mp3>' to my user's cron works even when I am > not logged in. > > The only drawback that I see with this is that mpg123 does not play my > .ogg files.
How about ogg123 ? You might then want to script using the right player for depending on the file type. > > Thanks all of you! Congrats :). Maybe you'd want to blog about your experiment. cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
