TuxTraining

This installation will cover how to install the Gnump3d mp3/ogg server in both Ubuntu and Open Suse.

Sharing something with friends or anyone through network (LAN or WAN) is really a great thing. And one of the best thing to share is music. Yeah, if you have a great collection of digital music stored in your hard disk, it’s time to share it with another people. Never say that you don’t have any idea how to share your music no.. no.. no.., wake up! Remember that we live in the world of free and open source software, we have many choices and the most important it’s free. What? You’re still using that fool proprietary thing, oh.. come on.

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mpg123 is a command line mp3 player for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

• on Fedora: yum install mpg123
• on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mpg123
• on openSuse: zypper in mpg123
• run the application:

mpg123 /home/username/song.mp3

or

mpg123 -C /home/username/music_folder/

Ta da.

By using the -C switch, keyboard controls are enabled and by default you can use ’s’ to stop, ‘p’ to pause, ‘f’ to jump forward to the next song, ‘b’ to jump back to the beginning of the song, ‘,’ to rewind, ‘.’ to fast forward, and ‘q’ to quit. Type ‘h’ for a full list of available controls.