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What's a good low-demand, command-line MP3 player?

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csa3d:
I'm searching for something similar.  I'd like a way to play MP3's behind a game, and have control over the volume of the Mame game playing and the MP3 player, essentially allowing Mame volume to slide down while MP3 volume slides up.  That way I can still hear the game softly for audio clues while jaming out to the the current track.  Idealy, this software could be tied to command or hotkeys.

Please post any additional findings.

-csa

Silver:
Its been a while since I've used it (it may have been updated) but foobar2000 is a great VERY low resource mp3 (and other) player.

It also has command line support:

foobar2000 /?     - for a list of available commands

Or run foobar2000 and go to Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts for a list of command line commands.

Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/


eg:

foobar2000.exe /play "Tuuuune!.mp3"

and

foobar2000.exe /stop

elvis:
mpg123 is a command-line audio player and mp3 player/decoder for POSIX systems.  I do recall someone making a Win32 port for it at some stage.  There are links to win32 patches from their main site, but no precompiled binaries.

http://www.mpg123.de/

If you know how to use MinGW, GNU Make and GCC it would be fairly trivial to knock up a binary.


screaming:
Winamp with the Reproduction Control should be able to do what you need on Windows.

Keep in mind though that MP3 decoding is not a cheap process and could very easily interfere with MAME and your game play.  If you definitely want the background music I'd recommend converting it to a WAV file first (which Winamp can do). 

Disk is cheaper than CPU...

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