Is there anyway to shuffle songs using play on a folder using SoX?
play ~/Music/*/**
Best Answer
You can use sort -R to reorder the file list into "random" order. The command could be the following:
find ~/Music -type f | sort -R | xargs -I + play +
Here find ~/Music -type f results in a list of of all files in the Music subtree, recursively. The resulting pathname list is then "sorted" into a random order by sort -R, and passed as arguments to successive play invocations with some few/many pathnames at a time. Note the use of + as "replace string", to invoke individual play for each music file.
(Edit: as per Warren's comment below, I've now removed the useless but harmless single quotes for the second +.)
Best Answer
You can use
sort -Rto reorder the file list into "random" order. The command could be the following:Here
find ~/Music -type fresults in a list of of all files in theMusicsubtree, recursively. The resulting pathname list is then "sorted" into a random order bysort -R, and passed as arguments to successiveplayinvocations with some few/many pathnames at a time. Note the use of+as "replace string", to invoke individualplayfor each music file.(Edit: as per Warren's comment below, I've now removed the useless but harmless single quotes for the second
+.)