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What is mplayer?

Basically, mplayer is a command-line music player packaged into most slackware installations. Because mplayer doesn't strictly require a desktop environment to be running, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks.

"How to use MPlayer on the command-line"

As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic.

 howtos:software:mplayer ()