Play mp3’s with the commandline
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
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.