Software required for playing sound files

[andycoleman]

Hi,

I have a little project in mind and I am not realy sure yet where this is going so my requirements are not fully thought out. I am looking for a music player which I can give a music file (mp3 or some other more open format) and it will play the music fle. I do not need the GUI part of the music player as that is what I am intending to build myself. Ultimately I am looking to build my own GUI which will allow me to select music files to play but the first step would be to just pass it a file to play from a script and build up from there.

I am looking to use this as a way to get up to speed with either Python or Ruby so I would need something which is easy to control from these languages.

Initially I will be happy with feeding the sound out via the headphone socket but should I be looking at getting a USB external DAC and send the sound through to my amp?

Thanks in advance
Andy

[DaveDriesen]

You can use mpeg123 or mpeg321 for this but if you're building your own app then I would recommend leveraging libmad (through pymad if you go for python).

For Raspbian, respectively:

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# use elevated privileges for these commands, or sudo them
# To install mpg123
apt-get install mpg123

# To install mpg321:
apt-get install mpg123

# To install python libmad bindings:
apt-get install python-pymad

Links:
mpg123 - Fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library
mpg321, a simple and lightweight command line MP3 player
pymad -- Python bindings to libmad
MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder)

Dave Driesen
Linux dev and oldskool elite

[andycoleman]

Dave,

Thanks very much.

Andy