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somethis
Asked: 2013-01-11 07:15:55 +0800 CST

Piping multiple audio files to totem media player

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My gf likes the Beatles so I placed a couple of tracks on my harddisk ...

Beatles - Here Comes The Sun.mp3
Beatles - If I Fell.mp3
Beatles - Tell me why.mp3
Beatles - Things we said today.mp3

... now from terminal - I can easily enqueue a track to my media player totem

totem --enqueue "Beatles - Here Comes The Sun.mp3"

But sometimes my gf likes to give me smoochies, thus, keeping me busy from spending all day enqueueing tracks one by one.

Is there a way to enque multiple tracks with a single command?

... it doesn't have to be simple ... but she thinks single command lines are so hot, resulting in more smoochies :) Also, please presume that the files could be scattered in subdirectories.

I've tried the following but it didn't work ...

totem --enqueue "$(find -iname "*beatles*")"
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's because of the spacing in the filenames that it doesn't work...

    Try 

    find -iname '*beatles*' -exec totem --enqueue {} +

    this executes totem --enqueue with all files found, but escapes the spaces properly.

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