Description

muff-play is a program written in bash and running in daemon mode that can be used to open files from a playlist file with external programs that are specified in a configuration file. It is intended to be used in combination with muff (obviously) but that's not necessary.

Features

This is an incomplete list of muff-play's features. See the help file for more details.

• Play back playlist continuously or in random order
• Open all file types that you have a player (or more generally program capable of opening those files from the command line) for.
• Pause, resume or stop playback
• Skip to next or previous track
• continue playback at last position after restart
• Status window
• Delete track being played at the moment from playlist (and skip to next track).
• re-read configuration file without restarting muff-play

Usage

Typically you will use muff-play via muff. For this you only have to make sure that the muffplayer entry in muff's configuration file is set to muff-play.

You can also call muff-play from external programs (most basic example would be communicating with it from the shell). This is described in Section D.4 and D.5 in the muff help file (at the moment only the text version covers all features of muff-play, the postscript or html versions only describe older versions).

Even though muff-play was intended to be a frontend for playing music files, it can actually be used to open any kind of file that you have a suitable program for. In muff's default setup, it calls ogg123 for .ogg-files, mpg321 for .mp3-files and mplayer for .avi- and .ogm-files, but can easily extended.

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The muff project is being maintained by
Richard Brauer

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