Ubuntu – Command line audio players

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What are popular audio players for the command line?

How to play a single sound file?
Are there command line players that also index the music library like Banshee, Exaile, etc.?

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I have compiled a complete list of commandline and other lightweight tools for linux: Best Lightweight Applications for Linux. It also has a list of other music players.

Here is my personal favorite: cmus.

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Ubuntu – use banshee from the command line

According to man banshee, it is possible to control playback. I'm not sure about searching though.

Here are a few of the controls that you mentioned. Check the man page for many more.

--next 
    Play the next track, optionally restarting if the 'restart' value is set

--previous 
    Play the previous track, optionally restarting if the 'restart value is set

--stop 
    Completely stop playback

--play 
    Start playback

Ubuntu – What’s a Good Rhythmbox Replacement

You can get around the one folder restriction by using symbolic links.
Say your music folder is ~/Music and you want to import ~/OtherMusic, you can put a symbolic link for ~/OtherMusic inside the ~/Music folder.

In a terminal: ln -s ~/OtherMusic ~/Music

You might need to restart your music player for it to notice the sym-link.

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