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    In case you thought I was joking...

    mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully. This is playing anything by STP in any subfolder of my main "Music" directory. I use wildcards between words because it's lazier than escaping the spaces.

    Raktajino@laptop:~$ ssh rak@media-pc
    
    rak@media-pc:~$ mplayer -shuffle /media/Music/*/Stone*Temple*Pilots*
    MPlayer 1.5+svn38446-1build5 (Debian)
    Playing Acoustics/Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic).mp3.
    Clip info:
     Title: Plush
     Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
     Album: Simply Acoustic
     Track: 10
    ==========================================================================
    Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
    AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
    Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
    ==========================================================================
    AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
    Starting playback...
    A: 233.8 (03:53.7) of 234.0 (03:54.0)  4.5% 
    
    Playing Rock/Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated.mp3.
    Clip info:
     Title: Dead & Bloated
     Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
     Album: The Best Of Stone Temple Pilot
     Track: 7
     Genre: Grunge
    ==========================================================================
    Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
    AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
    Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
    ==========================================================================
    AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
    Starting playback...
    A:   9.1 (09.1) of 310.0 (05:10.0)  4.5% 
    
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    [–] trigg@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I actually use MPD unlike op, but whole-collection shuffle is correct.

    Nothing beats skipping from Bach to TMNT theme tune

    [–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Nothing beats skipping from Bach to TMNT theme tune

    I agree with that sentiment, but that's not what happens at all. It's especially funny since you excplicitly mention Bach. My damn "Bach, Johann Sebastian" artist folder contains 226 different albums. Albums, not songs. And boy, that guy wrote some stinkers, too.

    I mean, I guess I could roughly see the system working if you have the same amount of songs for every artist, that would somewhat balance it. Otherwise your playlist will always be dominated by the prolific writers and you'll get a few dozen HΓ€ndel concertos and a handful of random Zelda dungeon sounds before the next TMNT theme tune plays.

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

    This guy statisticss

    The sad thing is I have a fully functional MPD + Snapcast setup I could use (including a TUI MPD client), but this is just what I've always done. Old habits and such lol.

    [–] FishFace@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago