Mplayer

I use mplayer to play music. It doesn't require a GUI and is quite configurable. To play music softly in the background without having to throttle the mixer so that other sound sources play at their normal volume, use the audio filter

	mplayer -af volume=-30 -loop 0 *mp3 -shuffle

	mplayer -af volume=-30 -loop 0 -playlist all.pl -shuffle

Where the format of the playlist is simply the path of each music file. If invoking mplayer from the music root, paths can be relative. To invoke mplayer from anywhere use absolute paths.

Here is a bash shell script that walks the music tree and builds a playlist.
Redirect it's output to a file: tree_walk > ~/favorites.pl

#!/bin/sh -
##########################################################
## This will create a list of the complete paths	##
## of all files in the current and sub-directories	##
##########################################################
# Version 1.0 7/19/2009
pp=$(pwd)
for thing in * .* ; do
  [ "$thing" = '.' -o "$thing" = '..' -o -L "$thing" ] && continue
  if [ -d "$thing" ]; then
    if [ ! -x "$thing" ]; then
      echo "directory $thing not executable" 1>&2
      exit
    fi
    cd "$thing"
    $0
    cd ..
  else
    echo "$pp/$thing"
  fi
done

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