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mathfeel
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 Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: needed: player that play url directly |
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It's often boring where I work, but since I don't really want an ipod (not sure what's the support on that as far as linux is concern), I wanted to play audio files I have at home (mp3/ape mostly). I have try to use webdav to host the file, but there is some iconv issue with respect to filename. I have also tried to configure icecast, but that doesn't work for me either. I found that I can simply copy/paste the link to the file url (by hosting the files via apache with basic authentication) into mplayer and it will play it just fine. xmms freezes when I try to do that. The problem with mplayer is that I can't do this with a playlist manager, so I can only play one file at a time. Is there other player solution?
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| If you want streaming audio, I personally use VLC, which will also record, by the way. But if you want a playlist, I don't think that'll help you. I think that if you use EsounD then you can stream audio across a network, but I haven't tried it yet. |
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mathfeel
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| alienjon wrote: | | If you want streaming audio, I personally use VLC, which will also record, by the way. But if you want a playlist, I don't think that'll help you. I think that if you use EsounD then you can stream audio across a network, but I haven't tried it yet. |
As far as I know, the only player I have some success in doing this is the old winamp in Windows. That's long time ago though...
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BitJam
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| I think Xine will handle URL's in its playlist. They call them MRL's and are a generalization of URL's. Find a xine man page on the web for an overview. Details of the MRL format are described in "man 5 xine" on my system but I can't find that page on the web. |
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mplayer can do this too, I believe.
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mathfeel
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| codergeek42 wrote: | | mplayer can do this too, I believe. |
I am pretty happy with mplayer playing URL, but I don't know how to make it play url playlist. Do I just have to make like an m3u file with each entries being the url??
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| mathfeel wrote: | | I am pretty happy with mplayer playing URL, but I don't know how to make it play url playlist. Do I just have to make like an m3u file with each entries being the url?? |
Try it. I just tried with a 2 song list. Mplayer downloaded both songs but only played the 2nd one. Maybe it will work better for you, or maybe there are some extra command line options I need to give it.
I know amaroK handles this well. It is a great sound player, especially if you already have KDE installed. Xine handles it well too. They both stream the mp3's so there is no noticeable startup delay. When I tried with mplayer it downloaded then entire clip before starting to play it. |
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codergeek42
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| mathfeel wrote: | | codergeek42 wrote: | | mplayer can do this too, I believe. |
I am pretty happy with mplayer playing URL, but I don't know how to make it play url playlist. Do I just have to make like an m3u file with each entries being the url?? |
That's pretty much it, yes. Just add one URL per line to a file called "foo.pls" (or another name of your choice  ) and run: | Code: | | $ mplayer -playlist foo.pls |
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mathfeel
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| codergeek42 wrote: | | mathfeel wrote: | | codergeek42 wrote: | | mplayer can do this too, I believe. |
I am pretty happy with mplayer playing URL, but I don't know how to make it play url playlist. Do I just have to make like an m3u file with each entries being the url?? |
That's pretty much it, yes. Just add one URL per line to a file called "foo.pls" (or another name of your choice ) and run: | Code: | | $ mplayer -playlist foo.pls |
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Thanks, It does work except in mplayer there doesn't seem to be a way to just tell it to play certain track on the playlist, but only follow order with '>' and '<' on the keyboard.
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Try mpd
http://www.musicpd.org/
but i think with ssh is pretty easy to do what you want.
Just access your home and play your files tougth ssh. |
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