Listening to music via terminal

We can listen to music in Terminal using Mplayer. For whom don't know what Mplayer is, it is an open source software for multimedia which can play a wide variety of media formats, it is multi-platform which means, this application works in Linux, and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X...

To listen to music in Terminal, you must have Mplayer installed on your machine. or install it by the following command.

For Ubuntu / Mint users :

sudo apt-get install mplayer

For Arch Linux users :

sudo pacman -S mplayer

Go to directory, you want to play music from, for me, it is "Music" :

cd Music

Then play, music you want :

mplayer loveme.mp3

If you to play all mp3 files on that directory :

mplayer *.mp3

If you want to play them all :

mplayer *

You can also play two pieces of music or more, depending on you :

mplayer loveme.mp3 && mplayer hateme.mp3

     

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How To ScreenCast your Desktop on Linux

After installing your Screencasting software such as Kazam, Vokoscreen, and  SimpleScreenRecorder (I recommend the last one), install Cheese or guvcview to show the webcam window.

I recommend to install Mplayer instead of the two because you can hide borders and chose the width and the height of your taste. With the following commands you can enable a Webcam Windows on your desktop for your screencast.

mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:width=322:height=242:device=­/dev/video1 -vo xv tv:// -geometry "99%:90%" -noborder -ontop

mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:width=322:height=242: -vo xv tv:// -geometry "99%:90%" -noborder -ontop

     

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ExMplayer Media player

ExMplayer is a media player that has been extended from Mplayer, It has many features including this final graphical interface, and contains 203 encoding audio and 421 scrambling for Video and this means there is no need to install Turn BBCode additional occupies most of the formulas , made ​​It useful and ideal for desktop , it also supports the stream network and other formats such as dvd (. vob), vcd (. mpg,. dat) and there is also support for subtitles and decoding libraries translations .

It also offers a 3D feature which makes this program unique ; The 3D menu full characteristics that meet all your needs in three-dimensional . If you do not have 3D glasses , the program can convert from 2D to 3D with a single click .

Another great feature of this program where you can increase the volume up to 5000 % , which means that if you have a low sound of the video , the origin of this program can enhance the amount of your sound .

Also : the program offers another advantage to a conversion (10 different types of audio formats ) , and extract audio from video and extract high quality audio , trimming media .

General Features :

Video playback support three-dimensional 3D
Enhanced volume to 5000% Volume booster
Extract and extract audio
Adapter votes
Boycotted the media
Additions dsp support for the program Winamp
8 filters for voice
17 a filter for video
Shortcuts mouse and keyboard to adjust the midwives and configuration
199 encoding for audio and video encoding 416
Boycotted the mixer media
View thumbnails of the video footage while passing the mouse on the video progress bar
In version 3.0.0 has been improved public interface and add more advanced information and support H265/HEVC and improve 3D.


- To install the program ExMplayer on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 and 13.04 and 13.10 and 14.04 and all between them , open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following three commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: exmplayer-dev/exmplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exmplayer

     

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CMPlayer : powerful media player

CMPlayer a media player that is strong and light, It is easy to use, It provides multiple features, attributes, and many of the powerful features.

CMPlayer have many advantages,  that can be explored on your own.

To install it in Ubuntu or Linux Mint, type the following commands :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-beta-proper

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:darklin20/cmplayer-ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cmplayer

Enjoy !

     

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To repeat or loop an Audio or video in Mplayer

In MPlayer GUI, the way we can do it will be the same as in any other application such as vlc, just going to the settings ... But we're talking here only about Mplayer (no Gui).

 So

 how can we loop a media after opening It ?

edit your ~/.mplayer/config file to include the following command :

loop=0

now, whenever you open a media file, It will automatically loop.

     

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