Straight audio player, without playlists

[Freddie]

Hi, i'm looking for a very simple audio player for Linux Mint Cinnamon. One that allows me to go to a subdirectory with music files, click on one of them and start listening. At the end of the music file it must go automatically to the next one and play that. I've searched, downloaded en tried lots of players but not one does what I want. For Windows there is a player that I would like to have in Linux: 1by1.
Freddie

[Da Londo]

If you dont't mind using Terminal you could try cmus, https://cmus.github.io/#home
To be found in Software Manager

[Hoser Rob]

Don't know of any linux equivalent, but in KDE you can right click a a folder and open it with Audacious or other music program. Does Cinnamon do this? It's been a while since I had it installed.

[iliketrains]

Don't know of any linux equivalent, but in KDE you can right click a a folder and open it with Audacious or other music program. Does Cinnamon do this? It's been a while since I had it installed.

That's what I do with vlc in Xfce DE.
vlc does some fancy things but it does simple things as well in a simple manner. I know it from Windows days and happy it's cross-platform.

[ajgreeny]

Audacious would also be my suggestion.
I'm not on a Linux box at at the moment but I think I audacious you can go to File -Open Folder or something very similar to that.
I think it's also possible to do that in vlc, though I don't like the gui of vlc for audio very much and tend to use adacious which is nice and small and simple.

[RollyShed]

Audacious would also be my suggestion.
I'm not on a Linux box at at the moment but I think I Audacious you can go to File - Open Folder or something very similar to that.

Open folder, click on the first tune which Audacious starts playing then with Shift held down, mark and drag the rest of the music files from that folder on to Audacious. It then plays them sequentially.

[iliketrains]

Sorry I misread the question.
To play a directory in vlc starting at a specific file requires setting to loop. Without loop it won't play the complete directory, or at least I didn't find an easy solution. The easy solution is letting vlc start with the file it wants, but that wasn't the question.
Another fanboy shot down in flames.

[Freddie]

Thank you for your info. I will try your solutions. The best shot (without having tried it yet) to me seems to be CMUS.
I will report my findings. However that may take a while, I'm not that fast.
Freddie

[legacypowers]

mpv, simple, lightweight, work as a video player too, and with some scripts it can be used as an youtube video player too .

[Flemur]

Thank you for your info. I will try your solutions.

After you find out that none of them will do what you want, you might try writing a script to do it.

[SimonPeter]

Hi, i'm looking for a very simple audio player for Linux Mint Cinnamon. One that allows me to go to a subdirectory with music files, click on one of them and start listening.

I use VLC for that. It is simple, lightweight, cross-platform, Free and Open Source etc.,

At the end of the music file it must go automatically to the next one and play that. I've searched, downloaded en tried lots of players but not one does what I want. For Windows there is a player that I would like to have in Linux: 1by1.

I don't know if VLC can do that (you may need to click just 1 more time).

[LPH_[retired]]

I had the same kind of issue with locating a minimum music player. I don't create playlist other than temporary. I don't want an app that scans my machine and catalogs every flipping mp3/flac/ape/ogg file. I know where my music files are thank you very much. I don't need anything that has visualization or an equalizer. Just a simple music player.

What I ended up with is Audacious. I created a Nemo.Actions file that allows me to right click on a folder name and every music file in that folder and all subfolders to that selected folder are added as a temporary playlist. I can right click individual or multiple music files and play them.



My launch_Audacious.nemo_action file contains:

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Name=Play in _Audacious 
Comment=Enque Music files with audacious
Exec=/usr/bin/audacious -E %F
Icon-Name=audacious
Selection=a
Extensions=any;
EscapeSpaces=true

Passing the -E parm to Audacious creates a temp playlist which is discarded after closing Audacious.
In the nemo_action file Selection=a selects anything in the folder or the individual file. If the folder contain files types other music files they are ignored by Audacious. If the folder contains no music files you'd get an error msg about no files.

This process works well for me. HTH

[Flemur]

What I ended up with is Audacious. I created a Nemo.Actions file that allows me to right click on a folder name and every music file in that folder and all subfolders to that selected folder are added as a temporary playlist. I can right click individual or multiple music files and play them.

That works with directory."Open with" and audacious or foobar and no extra fiddling (except it keeps the list as a playlist if you open them later with no params, although this is changeable in foobar to act as you describe).

Does your method do what the OP wanted, namely open a single file and then it continues to play the other files in the first file's directory?

[Flemur]

Package mpg123

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cd /to/music/dir
mpg123-pulse *

While it's running:
h = help
f = next song
d = previous song

Edit: If you "open with" in a file-browser, it either plays one track or plays all the selected tracks at the same time, which kinda sucks