A simple command-line media player

Problem

You have a folder on your hard drive where you store your MP3s. You would like to play these songs in a random order from the command-line with a simple command.

Solution

I have an alarm script with the exact same function; available here. Just modify the configuration part in the header to point to your MP3 folder; then launch it like this:

./alarm.py -p

Where -p stands for “play”. The script requires mplayer.

mp3 tag editor

“EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.” (source)

Installation:

sudo apt-get install easytag

With EasyTAG you can process your mp3 files in batch mode. For instance, you can set the album name for several files with just one click.

Tip: if you want to edit the MP3s in the current directory, launch the application with “easytag .“.

Extract mp3 from avi

ffmpeg -i input.avi -f mp3 output.mp3

Update (20120908)
This thing stopped working for me under Ubuntu 12.04. However, I had luck with “soundconverter” to extract mp3 from flv files.

Update (20130408)
If you have problems with ffmpeg, try to compile it yourself.