Playing MP3 through the command line

[spyderco]

I need a solution to play an MP3 file through the command line on Windows XP. It cannot launch an external player like WMP.

There is an MPEG::MP3 mod that says it will do it but it requires Xaudio libraries which are no longer downloadable so I can't get ahold of it.

Or maybe there is a MP3 to X conversion which won't kill the quality so much but will play through the system?

I really can't seem to get this to work.

 

[fishiface]

Try

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...yers_and_Editors/Command_Line_WAV_Player.html

Google "windows MP3 command line" for more.

The xaudio stuff is still vailable at

http://www.xaudio.com.

Is it the licensing that troubles you?

fish

["]As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.["]
--Maur

 

[icrf]

You could try Audio::MPEG, but it looks like it might be a *nix-only library. Easiest bet would probably be something third party, maybe something you could control via pipes/IPC::Open2 from Perl.

- Andrew
Text::Highlight - A language-neutral syntax highlighting module in Perl
also on SourceForge including demo

 

[spyderco]

Hi.

Because there's no other way, I converted the MP3 to WAV. And right,the licensing was the problem.

"At this time, the evaluation license is not available". I couldn't downloaded it if I wanted to.

 

[fishiface]

Magic - our software IPR is sooo valuable, you can't even use it.

f

["]As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.["]
--Maur