[vorbis-dev] [fwd] CVS: ogg123 rocks! vcut no so much so...(from: wayfarer42@postmaster.co.uk)

[Segher Boessenkool]

> As Segher once pointed out, unix tools need no playlist support:
> ogg123 `cat playlist` does the job (unless you spaces in file names, I wonder
> why bash has no split-by-lines command substitution variant...).

Because we already have "xargs" to handle cases like that ;)

> should work (modulo spaces, again) and ogg123 -@ <(cat *.m3u) is good too
> (bash has this nifty temporal named pipe feature, don't know for other shells).

It's standard Bourne syntax.

<p>Cheers,

Segher

p.s.  Please remember that ogg123 is a program to _play ogg files_; it's
not a
"music manager" or whatever.  Heck, it can't rewind or fast-forward or
basic things like that ;)

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