music123 (1)

music123 [ -hqrvz ] file ...

music123 is a shell around various command line programs to play music files. It will descend directories trees with -r, and randomize file lists with -z. The programs used and the options given them are listed in /etc/music123rc or ~/.music123rc.

-h

Show command help and exit;

-q

Quiet mode. No messages are displayed.

-r

Recurse into directories, instead of ignoring them.

-v

Display version information and exit.

-z

Play files in random order.

-Z

Play the files randomly and endlessly.

-l

Loop. -z -l differs from -Z in that -z -l will randomize, play through the song list (without repetition) in random order once, and repeat the songs in that order over and over; -Z will randomly play the songs, without any order, and will possibly play a song right after itself.

-i

Ignore extension case.

-L

List files and exit.

-T

Start a task that handle commands, only one command supported : quit, using q or Q will quit the application at the end of the current song.

-D

Set music123 not to delay between songs. (May make music123 harder to kill).

-d

Customize the time music123 delays between songs. -d takes one argument, expressed in seconds, which may have a fractional part.

-@

Play the files listed in the mandatory argument of -@. Other files can be added on the command line, and this option can be given several times. Note that music123 doesn't yet play URLs.

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End option list.

Play three songs:

music123 test1.ogg test2.mp3 test3.wav

Play a couple of directories and other songs at random:

music123 -z -r Rock/ test1.ogg Pop/ test4.wav

/etc/music123rc

Describes which programs music123 uses, which files types it supports, and which options it passes those programs.

~/.music123rc

Per-user config file to override the system wide settings.

Authors:

David Starner <[email protected]>