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Mplayer Shuffle Command: Play Files In Random Order

by on October 1, 2011 · 14 comments

How do I play files in random order using the mplayer command line player under Linux / Unix operating systems?

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Linux / UNIX: mplayer Play mp3s From a Playlist File

by on December 19, 2010 · 3 comments

I‘m an extreme newbie to the Linux world, but any time I try to get play files according to a playlist file using mplayer command line it turns up this error:

$ mplayer playlist.m3u
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing playlist.m3u.
Cache fill: 0.00% (44 bytes)

Exiting… (End of file)

How do I fix this and play music without using GUI tools?

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