Not long ago, Kimball Larsen proclaimed... > Ok, so everyone will probably get sick of all my questions this week, > but I've been tossed into a bit of unfamiliar territory (I'm a > programmer, not a sysadmin) this week with setting up a new server > here at work. One of the functions they need this server to do is to > play our hold music for the phone system. The old server that this > is replacing simply played music out of itunes (yes, the old server > is a mac mini) and an audio cable connects the mac to the phone system. > > So, the new server is headless, and I don't have X installed at all. > What sort of solutions are there out there that I can use to just > start music playing out of a pre-defined playlist when the system > boots and just have it play continuously forever?
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
mplayer *.mp3
done
A more elegant solution would be to use mpd <http://www.musicpd.org/>.
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