PlayShell

PlayShell is a simple console-based application for playing media files in Linux using known media players like SoX, VLC, MPlayer and FFplay as backend.

Features

Basic playback features like playing, pausing, stopping, fast-forwarding, and rewinding
Basic playlist sequencing features like repeating, shuffling, looping (single-track repeat), and manual mode
Queuing
Enabling and disabling of playlist entries
Video disabling
History-based traversal
Random or constant intervals between plays
Stop, quit, or halt after play

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Public Domain

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Simply, one of the best..... Thanks for that!

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Console/Terminal

Programming Language

AWK, Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Terminal Emulators, Unix Shell Music Players, Unix Shell Video Software, AWK Terminal Emulators, AWK Music Players, AWK Video Software

Registered

2006-07-31

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