Command line mp3 player in Linux

This post is after about a month long hibernation from my blog.

I made my mind up to listen songs as i usually do (it contributes to my hobby). In fact, i was suffering with a headburst headache, so i thought songs might be the stress buster and good entertainer too. What striked my mind was why couldn’t i play the tracks on command line rather playing’em in traditional RhythmBox or Amarok etc. The way i thought, the way i found…some googling let me find such a tool named mpg123, which is nothing but a command line player cum MPEG streamer.

Installation on Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install mpg123

Installation on RedHat/Fedora/Cent OS: For this, we have to first enable the rpmforge repo and try

yum install mpg123

and you are done.

Code

class Array
  def shuffle()
    sort_by { rand }
  end

  def shuffle!()
    replace(shuffle)
  end

  def random_element()
    shuffle[0]
  end

end 


class ShufflePlayer

  def initialize(files)
    puts files
    @files = files
  end

  def play()
    puts "play()"
    @files.shuffle.each do |file|
      puts file
      play_file(file)
    end
  end

  private

  def play_file(file)
    puts "play_file(file)"
    system("mpg123 #{file}")
  end

end

    songs = []
    Dir.foreach(".") do |entry|
      if(entry[-4..-1].eql?(".mp3") )
        puts entry
        songs << Dir.pwd + "/" +entry
      end
    end


sp = ShufflePlayer.new(ARGV[0] || songs)
sp.play()