mpg321

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Mpg321 was written (sometime in 1999) to be a drop-in replacement for the (previously) non-free mpg123 player. More information: <http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/mpg321.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install mpg321
Ubuntu
apt-get install mpg321
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install mpg321
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mpg321
OS X
brew install mpg321
Raspbian
apt-get install mpg321
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/mpg321

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Mpg321 was written (sometime in 1999) to be a drop-in replacement for the (previously) non-free mpg123 player. More information: <http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/>.

  • Play an audio source exactly N times (N=0 means forever):
    mpg321 -l N path/to/file_a|URL path/to/file_b|URL ...
  • Play a directory recursively:
    mpg321 -B path/to/directory
  • Enable Basic Keys ( `*` or `/` - Increase or decrease volume, `n` - Skip song, `m` - Mute/unmute.) while playing:
    mpg321 -K path/to/file_a|URL path/to/file_b|URL ...
  • Play files randomly until interrupted:
    mpg321 -Z path/to/file_a|URL path/to/file_b|URL ...
  • Shuffle the files before playing them once:
    mpg321 -z path/to/file_a|URL path/to/file_b|URL ...
  • Play all files in the current directory and subdirectories, randomly (until interrupted), with Basic Keys enabled:
    mpg321 -B -Z -K .

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