Answer by andrew.46 for Replacement for mplayer?
The lirc message can be avoided completely by adding the following to $HOME/.mplayer/config:lirc=noUnless of course you actually use a remote control...
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You can use cvlc, the commandline version of vlc. cvlc ~/Music/pathToSomeAlbum/someSong.mp3 &If you want to hide all of the output as well as run it in the background use this neat trick: cvlc...
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From the manual:Q: How can I run MPlayer in the background?A: Use: mplayer options filename < /dev/null &The redirect (note it's an input from /dev/null) is critical. mplayer is expecting...
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If you're just dealing with wavs, you can use paplay.For mpeg playback you'll need something else. You could mess around manually decoding it and piping that back around into paplay but one alternative...
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I'm looking for a replacement for mplayer. mplayer is a audio player for the console. It works just fine when I use it like so: mplayer /path/to/audio.mp3But when I start it in the background I get...
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