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Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
Asked: 2014-11-20 06:52:25 +0800 CST

Play all audio files in a directory from the command line ignoring non-audio files

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If I do:

vlc dir

it also plays files like images for 10 seconds. Is there a way to prevent that and play only the music?

I also have music files on arbitrary subfolders: dir/jazz, dir/classic, dir/jazz/miles-davies, etc.

I can do it with find and some bash-fu, but I'd prefer a simple vlc solution, or some other very simple solution that does not involve coding a complex script, in particular deciding what is a music file or not.

I have seen: How to play music files directly from folders? , but it is not VLC specific.

Also opened on the bug tracker: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/12819

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2 Answers

  1. You can use the following command to play only MP3s

    vlc folder/*.mp3 (GUI)

    cvlc folder/*.mp3 (CLI)

    You can specify additional formats using *.ogg etc.

    If there are subfolders -

    vlc folder/*/./*.mp3 (GUI)

    cvlc folder/*/./*.mp3 (CLI)

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  2. Bit of an old question, but if you're still wondering then I'd do:

    find . -name *.mp3 -exec cvlc '{}' +

    Which would find all mp3 files and then plays them in cvlc. The plus on the end, as apposed to semicolon means that you will use a single instance of vlc, rather than having it restart after every single song which might lead to longer breaks between songs.

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