Tim, I thankyou for all of your input; you have provided a lot of helpful
information.
I was also thinking of using the concatenation feature of Sox: I
believe the syntax is something like file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.mp3
bigfile.mp3. However, I am unaware of any punctuation and/or
switches that might be needed in this sort of file management. The
Sox manual is a bit terse and a bit short on syntax examples.
I just wish I knew what aspect of sox interfiered with gnome on my
system.
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Tim Chase wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:16:48 -0600
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Tim Chase <blinux.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: File Mannagement and Selective Playing with mpg123
On 12/29/2010 09:40 AM, RiverWind wrote:
File management is becoming a bit of an interesting issue for me.
I am looking for a utility that will allow me to go into a
directory, cursor through files and make random and/or other types
of selections by marking the chosen files prior to copying,
deleting or moving them.
The first thing that comes to mind is using Lynx (the cat) in DIRED mode.
Just point it at a directory such as:
bash$ lynx /home/riverwind
You can use "t" to tag/untag various files and then use "r"emove or "m"ove
(or rename if only one is tagged) them to another location/path.
Additionally, "mc" (Midnight Commander) is a super-powered console-based
file-manager.
As a 3rd option, I occasionally use the "find" command to do things like
this:
find ~/mp3 \( -iname '*satriani*.mp3' -o -iname "*morse*.mp3" \) -exec mv
{} /media/usb0/MUSIC \;
There's a LOT of power in the "find" command.
Yet one more option I sometimes use, I'll edit a file-list on the fly via
pipes and then pipe that to a file or a shell:
find ~/mp3 -iname '*.mp3' | grep -i "satriani" | sed "s@.*@cp '&'
/media/usb0/MUSIC@' | sh
A variant of this last method can take your file list, let you open it in
your editor of choice (vim for me) and then post-process it:
# create the file with all your music
find ~/mp3 -iname '*.mp3' > mp3.txt
# edit, deleting the ones you don't want to play
vi mp3.txt
# create the copy commands you need to copy them
# and then pipe the resulting commands through a shell
sed "s@.*@cp '&' /media/usb0/MUSIC@" | sh
When it comes to playing files using mpg123, I have learned to
create and have the utility play it beautifully. However, is it
possible to create a play list and then make individual selections
from that list and have mpg123 play specifically selected files
from a long list?
My first thought is just copy your file to a 2nd file, use your favorite
text-editor to edit that new file (removing what you don't want), and then
point mpg123 at that new file instead of the humongous original.
Hope this helps,
-tim
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