Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:04:48 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomising tracks: scripting question Message-ID: <AANLkTikBHbJorvRpcMb7ZG3KzAMsTVAfqCQe0RS1N=_Y@mail.gmail.com>
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Frank Shute wrote: >I generally play my tracks of an album like so: > >for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do >mplayer $track >done > >They then play in the correct order. > >How would I go about randomising the order of play using >sh (preferably) or perl? cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u | xargs mplayer ... -shuffle or mplayer ... -playlist trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u -shuffle if they are in a uncommented, one-absolute-path-per-line format without extended directives? b.
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