[Tfug] music/mp3 player daemon

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Yeah, that's is a pretty good idea ^_^
Screen is my friend.

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Sam Hart wrote:

>* On 03-12-22, Claude Rubinson wrote:
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>>I'm wondering if anybody is aware of an audio player app that runs as
>>a daemon?  Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree.  I'll provide a bit
>>of background and how I'm thinking about resolving the problem.
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>>I typically use command-line instruments for playing music (generally
>>mp3s but, if possible, I'm looking for a solution that supports
>>multiple formats).  In an xterm, I'll execute splay or the play
>>frontend to SoX against a list of audio files and throw it into the
>>background.  No muss, no fuss. 
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>>Well, at least most of the type.  Every so often, I won't be thinking
>>about it, and I'll close the xterm that's running the playing job.
>>Whoops!  There goes the music.  Or, I'll want to kill the job but I've
>>forgotten which xterm it's running in.  Yeah, I can always kill the
>>process but I shouldn't have to.
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>Well, one quick and simple way to solve this is to run whatever sound 
>playing thingy you're using in 'screen' (see the man page for it).
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>That way you can detach it from the xterm and keep it running.
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>(Screen is actually one of my favorite apps, and probably least 
>appreciated killer app I know of ;-)
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