[MPlayer-users] Playlist problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:03:57PM -0000, johan at appli.se wrote:
> I have a lot of songs at home, stored in .wma format. I want to play those
> songs  on a linux computer at school. This is the command I ran, and it works
> just fine:
> 
> (mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm -aofile /dev/fd/9 song.wma > /dev/null
> 2>&1) 9>&1 | (gogo /dev/stdin /dev/fd/9 -silent > /dev/null 2>&1) 9>&1 | ssh
> username at computer.se 'mpg123 -'
> 
> But that way I have to execute that command for every song I want to play, so
> I wanted to use a playlist instead. So I ran this command:
> 
> (mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm -aofile /dev/fd/9 -playlist songs.txt
> -shuffle > /dev/null 2>&1) 9>&1 | (gogo /dev/stdin /dev/fd/9 -silent >
> /dev/null 2>&1) 9>&1 | ssh username at computer.se 'mpg123 -'
> 
> This works fine for the first song that is played, but in the following songs
> mplayer start to skip large parts of the songs. Does anyone have an idea how
> to solve this problem?

you want to learn to use your shell and make a for loop. even if your
method worked (and it should..) you'd get all the files stuck together
as one huge mp3 rather than individual.

btw gogo is pretty low quality i think, you might try lame instead, or
even bladeenc or something..

rich