thanks for the help guys. The xargs worked perfectly.
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:18 am, David Geoffrion wrote:
> The best I can come up with is to throw them all on the command line with a
> program like xargs, but it's a bit tricky because mp3's often have spaces
> in the names which makes madplay treat each part of the name as a separate
> file which will obviously not make it make pretty sounds.
>
> I whipped this line up using [g]awk to put quotation marks around each
> filename, though, before passing them into xargs, and it seems to work
> pretty well with my tests:
>
> find /home/msteeds/Music/ -name \*[mM][Pp]3 | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}' |
> xargs madplay
>
> of course if you have like a text file listing of songs you want in your
> "playlist" (like an .m3u, say) you should be able to just replace that find
> with a cat as in:
>
> cat myPlaylist.m3u | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}' | xargs madplay
>
> but I didn't actually try that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Seeds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:48 PM
> Subject: [Siglinux] madplay playlists
>
>
> I've recently been playing around with some command line mp3 players. I
> cannot figure out how to do a playlist for madplay. I know it can accept
> multiple files, but beyond listing them all on the command line I can't get
> it to work. I know that the following will work for mpg123:
>
> mpg123 --list <(find /home/mtseeds/Music/ -name '*.mp3')
>
> However this doesn't work for madplay (mainly because madplay does not have
> the --list option). I know that there are playlist managers that work with
> madplay, but those all require X Windows. I'm trying to keep this strictly
> command line. I'm trying to use madplay because I've discovered a couple
> of mp3's I have that mpg123 can't play, but madplay can. Any help would be
> appreciated.
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