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DATE: 2018-08-06
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
I download podcasts using pypodd[1], then I want to play the files, but I don't want to leave the terminal. I found out that VLC[2] has a some command line options, including ad really nice ncurses interface. I made an alias in my .bash_profile which starts VLC in the right way and plays a nominated file:
1: https://github.com/johngodlee/pypodd
2: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
alias vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I ncurses"
Then in bash I can type:
vlc file.mp3
to open VLC and play the file.
There are lots of other arguments to use VLC in the command line, most of which are documented here[3].
3: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Advanced_Use_of_VLC/