Free played software for linux

last played is a small script that shows the last 5 files a mounted iPod shuffle played in shuffle mode.
Since you look at this page, you probably own an iPod shuffle. If you are like me, you like to upload new music on it, set it to shuffle mode and enjoy. Yeah!
Until there comes a song you really love or hate, but your trusty shuffle lacks a display, so there is no way to know (other than to memorize some lyrics and google for them) which song it was.
Luckily, there is an easier way: last played is a small python script that will put the last 5 (or whatever you tell it on command line) files you listened to on screen. Now you can simply delete songs you hate and give 5 stars to songs you love.
I recommend putting the last.py on the root directory of your shuffle. You can then start it from there using
python last.py
on the command line.
last played is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Version restrictions:
- Since the iPod shuffle recreates its shuffle sequence whenever the end of the current shuffle sequence is reached, the script might return wrong results now and then. I have not yet tested it thoroughly enough to confirm it, sorry. However, this should not happen too often.
Enhancements:
- This version now (probably) finds a shuffle under MS Windows, and detects if the sequential mode was set, showing the right files in this case.

Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played.
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure

Simple_XOSD is an amaroK script that displays a small OSD on your screen that shows you information about the song that is played currently.

By default, it is located in the upper right corner of the screen (leaving enough room for title bar buttons, of course). It shows the artist, the name and the remaining time of the current song.

Customization:

Simple_XOSD is easy to customize. You can set the location, the text (size, color, the font itself) and the update interval (One second by default).

But you dont have to - Simple_XOSD *should* work out of the "box".

PyTone project is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, turning PyTone into an ideal jukebox system for use at parties.
Main features:
concise curses based GUI
simple song selection
- using an arbitrary number of music databases with hierarchical (artist/album/songs, genre/artist/album/songs, decades/artist/albums/songs, or rating/artist/albums/songs) navigation,
- from list of top and last played songs,
- from list of most recently added songs,
- random song list,
- stored playlists, or
- alternatively from file system
editable playlist:
- deletion
- move song up/down
- delete played songs
- shuffle
- repetition
- automatic addition of random songs, when the playlist is empty
- save to and load from .m3u file
pluggable players, currently
- internal mp3/Ogg Vorbis player with crossfading and gap killing and/or
- xmms based external player and/or
- mpg321 or (the non-free) mpg123 based external player
display of information for currently selected song:
- ID3 tag
- length
- times played
- last played
- song rating (1 to 5 stars)
plays currently selected song on second player (if your computer has a second sound card or one card with more than one line out)
search functionality:
- quick search by first letter
- incremental search by regular expression
random song selection taking into account song rating and time at which song was last played
description of important key bindings in status bar and context sensitive help
logging of played songs
execution of arbitrary command when playback of new song starts
basic mixer functionality
customizable key bindings
customizable look
English, French, German, Italian and Polish user interface
external control, e.g. from the shell
plugin system; currently plugins for the AudioScrobbler service and for displaying the title in the terminal window and using xosd are included

amarokNowPlaying is an amaroK script. It can generate two types of files: a text file (nowplaying.txt) with loads of information about the currently played track and the playlists settings and images with the album cover, artist and track name plus an image which you can use in your signature or similiar.

Please send me any comments, critique and/or suggestions.

Many users prefer Gnome Window Manager but cant go without Amarok. Gnome Play Video in Totem allows Gnome Users to view video or audio externally in Totem.

This is very useful for Video Podcasts.

Audio::Play::MPG123 is a frontend to mpg123 version 0.59r and beyond.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Play::MPG123;

$player = new Audio::Play::MPG123;
$player->load("kult.mp3");
print $player->artist,"n";
$player->poll(1) until $player->state == 0;

$player->load("http://x.y.z/kult.mp3");

# see also mpg123sh from the tarball

This is a frontend to the mpg123 player. It works by starting an external mpg123 process with the -R option and feeding commands to it.

While the standard mpg123 player can be used to play back mp3s using this module you will encounter random deadlocks, due to bugs in its communication code. Also, many features (like statfreq) only work with the included copy of mpg123, so better use that one before deciding that this module is broken.

(In case you wonder, the mpg123 author is not interested in including these fixes and enhancements into mpg123).