MPlayer play music recursively in a directory.

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It’s quite often I have directories full of media files (specifically music) and subdirectories within them also with music files, and though the manual for MPlayer is thicker than the Chinese phonebook I have not been able to find any option for it.

I did however find a method which isn’t exactly the guru one-liner, but here it is anyway. It’s broken into two steps, the first to create a playlist:

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name \*.\* > playlist

Then finally play the playlist:

mplayer -playlist playlist

Just add a -loop 0 suffix if you want to loop

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