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| #!/usr/bin/env perl | |
| use strict; | |
| use warnings; | |
| use utf8; | |
| use File::Find; | |
| use List::Util 'shuffle'; | |
| # config | |
| my $music_dir = "$ENV{HOME}/Music/mp3s"; | |
| my $num_albums = 1; | |
| my $vlc = "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC"; | |
| if ($#ARGV >= 0) { | |
| $num_albums = $ARGV[0]; | |
| } | |
| # music | |
| opendir(my $dh, $music_dir) or die "Can't open $music_dir: $!"; | |
| my @albums = grep { | |
| -d "$music_dir/$_" && !/^\./ | |
| } readdir($dh); | |
| closedir $dh; | |
| @albums = shuffle(@albums); | |
| @albums = @albums[0 .. $num_albums - 1] if @albums > $num_albums; | |
| my @paths = map { "$music_dir/$_" } @albums; | |
| my $args = join ' ', map { quotemeta($_) } @paths; | |
| print "Playing album(s):\n"; | |
| foreach (@paths) { | |
| print " $_\n"; | |
| } | |
| exec "$vlc $args"; |
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