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-== "How to use MPlayer on the command-line" ==+====== How to use MPlayer on the Command-line ======
 [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-documentation-project-4175422561/|As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic]]. [[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-documentation-project-4175422561/|As suggested by kikinovak as a slackdoc topic]].
  
-== What is mplayer? == +===== What is mplayer? ===== 
-Basically, mplayer is a command-line music player packaged into most slackware installations. +Basically, mplayer is a command-line movie player packaged into most slackware installations; It happens to work like a champ with music files in addition to watching movies. 
-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.+Because mplayer doesn't strictly require a desktop environment to be running while playing music, it is quite light and is ideal for wimpier machines such as netbooks.
  
-== How to invoke mplayer ==+===== How to invoke mplayer ===== 
 +Below are a couple of basic ways of calling mplayer.
  
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-== Useful shortcut keys == +==== Useful shortcut keys ==== 
-While running, mplayer can be controlled additional keyboard input.+While running, mplayer can be controlled by additional keyboard input.
  
 Some simple but memorable shortcuts: Some simple but memorable shortcuts:
-spacebar - Toggles pause/play. +  * spacebar - Toggles pause/play. 
-return - Next track.+  * return - Next track. 
 +  * ctrl+c - Escape/Quit.
  
-== Gotchas ==+=== Gotchas ===
 Don't accidentally hit the arrow keys while mplayer is running; It will alter the audio playback speed (quite annoying). Don't accidentally hit the arrow keys while mplayer is running; It will alter the audio playback speed (quite annoying).
 +
 +==== Playlists ====
 +You can also tell mplayer to play tracks from a playlist.
 +
 +First you need to create a playlist file.
 +<code>
 +$ find . -type f -iname *.mp3 > my_list.txt
 +</code>
 +
 +And then you can take the playlist and feed it into mplayer.
 +<code>
 +$ mplayer -playlist my_list.txt
 +</code>
 +
 +If you're feeling frisky, you can also tell mplayer to shuffle your playlist as well.
 +<code>
 +$ mplayer -shuffle -playlist my_list.txt
 +</code>
 +
 +=== Example Playlist Demonstration ===
 +
 +The below terminal output demonstrates mplayer playlists in action.
 +
 +<code>
 +[ roach@sepsis:msk ]$ find SchoolyardHeroes/Abominations/ -type f -iname *.mp3 > abominations.txt     
 +[ roach@sepsis:msk ]$ mplayer -playlist abominations.txt 
 +MPlayer 20101218-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
 +
 +Playing SchoolyardHeroes/Abominations/04 - Violence Is All The Rage.mp3.
 +Audio only file format detected.
 +Clip info:
 + Title: Violence Is All The Rage
 + Artist: Schoolyard Heroes
 + Album: Abominations
 + Year: 2007
 + Comment: Amazon.com Song ID: 20884756
 + Track: 4
 + Genre: Unknown
 +==========================================================================
 +Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
 +AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 32000->176400)
 +Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
 +==========================================================================
 +AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
 +Video: no video
 +Starting playback...
 +A:  20.8 (20.8) of 189.0 (03:09.0)  0.3% 
 +
 +</code>
 +
 +Note: The above example's find command creates an unsorted playlist (which might not be what you're after).
 +
 +[[http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/how-to-quickly-make-a-playlist-for-mplayer/|Here's a nifty article on creating sorted playlists and then some.]]
 +
 +====== Sources ======
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 +  * Written by [[wiki:user:aschyiel | aschyiel]]
 +
 +<!-- Please do not modify anything below, except tags.-->
 +{{tag>howtos software work_in_progress author_aschyiel}}

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