Free plays 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.

Audio::Play is an interface for Audio::Data to hardware.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Data;
use Audio::Play;

$audio = Audio::Data->new(...)

$svr = Audio::Play->new;

$svr->play($audio);

Audio::Play is an wrapper class which loads Audio::Play::$^O i.e. a per-platform driver.

Each class provides the following interface:

$svr = $class->new([$wait])

Create the server and return an object. $wait is supposed to determine whether to wait for device (and for how long) but is currently not really working for many devices.

$svr->rate($rate)

Set sample rate (if possible) to $rate.

$rate = $svr->rate;

Return sample rate.

$svr->play($audio[,$gain])

Play $audio via the hardware. Should take steps to match hardware and datas sampling rate.

$svr->gain($mult)

Set gain (if possible).

$svr->flush

Wait for playing to complete.

$svr->DESTROY

Destructor flushes and closes hardware.

ZoltanPlayer is a music playing daemon. It accepts remote commands via its own mini HTTP server and can use seamlessly Audio or Data CDs. Audio CDs are played internally (optionally querying CDDB info servers) and digital songs in audio CDs are played via external players. Its not limited to CDs, as a hard disk directory can also be used.
The optimal equipment for ZoltanPlayer is a CDROM-equipped computer directly connected to an amplifier or stereo. Its not a streaming server, nor a ripper, nor a simple HTTP+HTML interface jukebox (this could be done with a CGI). ZoltanPlayer integrates the controlling of CD insertion / eject with the capability of directly playing CD Audio and spawning external player for MP3 / Ogg Vorbis / whatever song files.
Current version is 1.0.0. This software only runs on Linux and its licensed under the GPL.
Here is a list of commands for ZoltanPlayer:
mount: Mounts the CD in the drive (closing it if necessary). If its a CD Audio, it will take info about it and search the local CDDB cache; if no info for this CD is found, it will query a remote CDDB server. If its a CD-ROM, it will traverse it recursively looking for playable files and the subdirectories containing songs will be treated as groups. Anyway, the list of songs will be stored in its internal database ready for playing.
umount: Unmounts the CD, and ejects it.
xmount: A combination of the previous two. If CD is mounted, umount it, and vice-versa.
hd: Reads a directory from the hard disk (this directory must be defined in the config file to be used). It will be treated the same as a CD-ROM. This command can also be used to re-read the hard disk directory contents if it has been updated since ZoltanPlayer read it.
play: Starts playing the first song.
stop: Stops playing.
pause: Pauses / unpauses the currently playing song.
next-song: Moves to the next song and plays it.
prev-song: Move to the previous song and plays it.
goto-N: Moves to song number N and plays it.
next-group: Moves to the first song of the next group and plays it If no group is defined (as in Audio CDs), it restarts playing from the first song.
prev-group: Moves to the first song of the previous group and plays it.If no group is defined (as in Audio CDs), it restarts playing from the first song.
song-info: Returns information about the song being played in one line. This command can be used from a shell script to display the info on an LCD, a ticker or something like that.
vol-up: Pumps up the volume by 5%. Only operative if the sound card mixer is being used (see sample config file).
vol-down: Lowers the volume by 5%. Only operative if the sound card mixer is being used.
cd-info: Shows the current list of songs, and information about the current group and song being played, if any.
skip-N: disable the song number N (do not play it).
rest-N: enable the previously disabled song number N.
toggle: toggle the skip selection.
toggle-playlist: toggle the skip selection for those songs inside playlists.
shuffle: shuffle the playing order of songs.
unshuffle: get back to original sorting of songs (CD order for Audio CDs, or alphabetical ordering if song files from CDROMs or hard di
Enhancements:
- Support for CD cover images.
- First stable release.

AmaroK now playing is a script that displays the song you are currently playing with amaroK.

Add it to, /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts

Then add it to command aliases

Konversation > settings > command aliases

For example: alias: np ;replacement: /exec np

RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time. RealPlayer plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, RealPix and Ogg Theora.
It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia 9200 Series, Nokia 7650, Palm OS 5-based handhelds, Linux, Solaris, and many Unix variants.
Main features:
Play popular datatypes
- RealPlayer@ 10 supports RealAudio, RealVideo 10, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Theora, H263, AAC and more. Get ready for accelerated video, full screen playback, and a lot more to play.
Mozilla-compatible plug-in
- You can now watch and listen to embedded video right in your Web browser without opening RealPlayer. Enjoy media from your favorite music and news sites with just one click.
New UI adopts your theme
- The elegant UI design is based on GTK technology. That means the player adopts the theme youve chosen, and blends itself accordingly into your desktop environment.
Enhancements:
- fixes

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).

Audio::Play::MPG321 is a frontend to MPG321.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Play::MPG321; my $player = new Audio::Play::MPG321;

$SIG{CHLD} = IGNORE; # May not work everywhere! $SIG{INT} = sub { $player->stop(); exit 0; };

$player->play("/home/dabreegster/foo.mp3"); do { $player->poll(); print $player->{sofar}, " ", $player->{remains}, " ", $player->state(), "n"; } until $player->state() == 0;

$player->play("/home/dabreegster/bar.mp3"); sleep until $player->state() == 0;

This is a frontend to the MPG321 MP3 player. It talks to it in remote mode and provides constant feedback about the time elapsed so far, the time remaining, and the state of the player.

If you use Audio::Play::MPG321 directly, then you will have to do some extra work outside of the module, as demonstrated in the synopsis. If you want to build a basic queue (Play one song, then play another), then you must keep calling poll() to make sure Audio::Play::MPG321 knows how MPG321 is doing and testing state() to be 0.