For the sake of learning (Terminal)

[psam3]

I have used the CD command to move to my music folder. Now the question is, how do I start an MP3 in this folder using only the terminal?

Thanks

[baddog144]

You could get mplayer with

sudo apt-get install mplayer

and then:

mplayer filename.mp3

[ankspo71]

Hi,
Are you wanting to play music without a GUI (inside the terminal)?

If so, try this
canberra-gtk-play -f <path-to-file>

I believe this is the command line audio player that plays the Ubuntu theme sounds.
hope this helps.

[John Bean]

I have used the CD command to move to my music folder

No you didn't. Commands are case-sensitive and I'll bet you actually used one called "cd".

Well, you did say "for the sake of learning"

[psam3]

You could get mplayer with

sudo apt-get install mplayer

and then:

mplayer filename.mp3

Thanks, I had to give my files simpler names but it worked after that.

No you didn't. Commands are case-sensitive and I'll bet you actually used one called "cd".

Well, you did say "for the sake of learning"

haha, yeah you are right, I did use the "cd" command

[psam3]

Hi,
Are you wanting to play music without a GUI (inside the terminal)?

If so, try this
canberra-gtk-play -f <path-to-file>

I believe this is the command line audio player that plays the Ubuntu theme sounds.
hope this helps.

I tried this too but it simply refuses to find my files

[baddog144]

ou can always type just part of the filename and then press TAB to complete the filename. E.g if you have reallylong_complexFIlename.mp3, you could type reallylo<tab> and it would complete it for you

[wmcbrine]

Thanks, I had to give my files simpler names but it worked after that.

Not necessary. If spaces are the issue:

mplayer "a filename with spaces.mp3"

If it's something else, there's another way around it. Any file can be specified on the command line.

[psam3]

ou can always type just part of the filename and then press TAB to complete the filename. E.g if you have reallylong_complexFIlename.mp3, you could type reallylo<tab> and it would complete it for you

Thanks that is helpful. If I could ask one more question, is their a way to simply tell it to play all files in a folder with a certain extension, like mp3?

[baddog144]

Sure, just do

mplayer *.mp3

the '*' means "anything", so *.mp3 is "any file that ends in .mp3"