In case you thought I was joking…
mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully. This is playing anything by STP in any subfolder of my main “Music” directory. I use wildcards between words because it’s lazier than escaping the spaces.
Raktajino@laptop:~$ ssh rak@media-pc
rak@media-pc:~$ mplayer -shuffle /media/Music/*/Stone*Temple*Pilots*
MPlayer 1.5+svn38446-1build5 (Debian)
Playing Acoustics/Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic).mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Plush
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: Simply Acoustic
Track: 10
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Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
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AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 233.8 (03:53.7) of 234.0 (03:54.0) 4.5%
Playing Rock/Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated.mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Dead & Bloated
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: The Best Of Stone Temple Pilot
Track: 7
Genre: Grunge
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Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 9.1 (09.1) of 310.0 (05:10.0) 4.5%
I’ve been too lazy to find/get onto a music private tracker, so my collection isn’t much… but I did setup pipewire devices over the network, so my shop sound system is now an audio device on my desktop. (Pipewire is awesome).
I spend more time building the systems than actually using them. ncmcmcnpp + mpd is the TUI of the distinguished gentlemen and ladies.