mplayer lacks an option for selecting files in a reverse order. So here is a quick way to playback all mp3 files in reverse order:
$ ls -1 -r *.mp3 > mp3.rev
$ mplayer -playlist mp3.rev
Where,
- -r reverse order while sorting
- -1 list one file per line
- -playlist file : Play files according to a playlist file
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LoL…
mplayer not only on Linux, how abt ‘dir’ command can do this for windows?
You could squeeze that into one line with:
$ mplayer `ls -r *.mp3`
Neil,
I’ve over 3000+ mp’3 in dir. it won’t work as shell will end up with argument limit error. If you got 10-30 files; your command should work.
This will work as well.
ls -1 -r *.mp3 | mplayer -playlist -