Fun stuff . . . MP3 playing

[Bradley Miller]

Wow -- that is pretty cool . . . and it works with mpg123 also.  What's the 
difference between mpg321 and 123 ?

-- Bradley Miller

At 12:00 AM 11/28/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>It gets better.  You can control this command line player remotely.  I'm
>not sure about mpg123, but its GNU replacement, mpg321 allows process
>signals for job control:
>
>killall -2 mpg321
>
>will give it the control-c (SIGINT) to skip to the next selection.
>
>killall -19 mpg321
>
>will "pause" it by suspending (SIGSTOP) the program in the background, and
>
>killall -18 mpg321
>
>to resume! (SIGCONT)
>
>I'm sure there are others, but you can always hack the source code to trap
>the other signals into doing a useful functions.  The kill or killall
>command with the -l option will show you possible signals to use.
>
>Have your window manager, cron job, or keyboard events control your
>playlist!  The e16keyedit utility for enlightnment lets you remap
>keys directly into command lines.
>
>Signals are one of the best kept secrets and a powerful tool.