shuffled play startup from command line

Submitted by marius on Sun, 2005-10-09 17:05

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Hey, I really like the idea of music daemon in the background and not requiring any user interface, because this is exactly how I listen to music most of the time.
So I have Repeat=yes, Shuffle=yes in ~/.moc/config.
The playlist is ~/.moc/playlist.m3u and it contains all music accessible to me.
With such setup, how do I start playing with minimal interaction?
e.g. the following just don't do their job properly:
mocp --play
mocp --play ~/.moc/playlist.m3u

For now the only solution I know is to go and select the first song with:
mocp ~/.moc/playlist.m3u

I really don't care which song is going to be first, I prefer random choice when Shuffle=yes and probably the first one in playlist when Shuffle=no.

I use moc-2.3.2 from Debian. I could not locate your previous forum, so this post is probably a duplicate..
anyway, please post a command line solution if there is one, or otherwise I will file a bugreport :)

thanks!

daper

Sun, 2005-10-09 17:40

I don't think there is a way to do this in 2.3, but with 2.4 (2.4.0-alpha1) you can just use mocp -p.

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Damian Pietras - MOC developer

marius

Sun, 2005-10-09 18:09

I downloaded http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv/binary-i386/moc/moc_2.3.2+2.4.0-alpha1-1_i386.deb
but it did not work on my up-to-date Debian SID:

# dpkg -i moc_2.3.2+2.4.0-alpha1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 225657 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace moc 2.3.2+2.4.0-alpha1-1 (using moc_2.3.2+2.4.0-alpha1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement moc ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of moc:
moc depends on libasound2 (>> 1.0.9+1.0.10rc1); however:
Version of libasound2 on system is 1.0.9-3.
moc depends on libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.14.1-1); however:
Package libcurl3-gnutls is not installed.
dpkg: error processing moc (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
moc

I also looked for newer libasound2 and libcurl3-gnutils but I could not find. Are they somewhere in experimental?

Then I went for tar.bz2 snapshot, it's a pitty there is no debian dir.
"./configure" looked around and said:
MOC will be compiled with:
Decoder plugins:
OSS: yes
ALSA: yes
JACK: no
DEBUG: yes
ICONV: yes
Network streams: no
Resampling: no

With "make" I got mocp, but it complains:
FATAL_ERROR: No decoder plugins have been loaded!

I couldn't find anything on that in README nor INSTALL.
I see there is decoder_plugin dir with mp3, ogg etc, I went to mp3, Makefile is already there, so typed "make" and got bunch of problems...
How can this be fixed?

daper

Sun, 2005-10-09 18:23

AFAIK for current MOC packages you need Debian unstable.

When compiling from sources you need -dev packages of libraries, for example libmad0-dev in addition to libmad0.
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Damian Pietras - MOC developer

marius

Sun, 2005-10-09 19:31

Debian SID is a synonym for Debian unstable, at least it used to be.
Anyway "unstable" is my sources.list with only exception to Marillat's repositories who prefer explicit name sid.
I am still puzzled with libasound2.

riesebie

Mon, 2005-10-10 14:51

Hi,

the debs at lxtec are built against libcurl3-gnutls and alsa 1.0.10rc1. Both are available in experimental.
Anyway libcurl3-gnutls has found its way to sid today, so I'll prepare new packages depending only on sid-stuff both 2.3.2 and 2.4.0-alpha1.

Elimar

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The path to source is always uphill ;-)

riesebie

Thu, 2005-10-13 21:49

New debs build again libcurl3-gnutls out of sid can be found at http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv now. Plese notice that 2.3.2 _and_ 2.3.2+2.4.0-alpha1 is available.

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The path to source is always uphill ;-)

riesebie

Mon, 2005-10-10 14:56

can be found at http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv/sources/moc/

Elimar

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The path to source is always uphill ;-)