Re: [mpg123-users] How to use a play list in remote mode?

[Thomas O. <tho...@or...>]

Am Thu, 3 Apr 2025 01:19:09 -0500
schrieb Seamus de Mora <sea...@gm...>: 
> 
> So - is there no possibility to use the 'PAUSE/P: pause playback' command
> from the remote?

What is missing is the playlist handling in remote mode. Or the remote
mode in the normal operation. But then … as you are not interested in
responses, you can simply automate the normal terminal control using
socat with pty.

For example this command line

	(sleep 3; echo ' '; sleep 3; echo ' '; sleep 3) \
	| socat - "EXEC:mpg123 -q --random -@ test.m3u",pty,ctty,stderr

(without the leading tabs, of course) will open the playlist test.m3u
and then play for 3 seconds, then pause for 3 seconds, then play for 3
seconds and quit because the input stream to socat ended.

Your task would be to write the script before the | socat, reacting to
your button event (however it arrives in your system) and printing out
<space><endofline> each time, instead of printing to the fifo before.

This is one option. Another option is a little wrapper over --continue
mode that just kills mpg123 and remembers the position, then starts it
again. This needs some shell/perl/python programming as glue, but is
perfectly doable.

> I don't know Thomas... after reading this "terminal mode work-around", I am
> feeling a bit confused. If there's no way to simply add an option to the
> 'remote-mode' that will play a designated playlist, 

There is a way, and I might be prompted to program it. But not today. I
need to fight for my programming time with real life, like so many
others …

At least I fixed --random together with --continue in the development
trunk now. The socat hack above doesn't need that, though. Some playing
around with the Unix toolset should get you there!


Alrighty then,

Thomas