Shuffle

Lars Noschinski lars-2006-1 at usenet.noschinski.de
Fri Jan 25 09:38:46 PST 2008


* John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com> [08-01-25 06:03]:
>Walter Bright wrote:
>>For fun, I ordered a new car stereo that would play music from an SD card or 
>>USB stick(rather than from CD), and installed it over the weekend. The problem 
>>is loading songs onto the SD card from my home music server, which I like to 
>>hear played at random.
>>The solution is a simple D program, shuffle, which will randomly copy music 
>>files to an SD card until it fills up. Have some fun with it!
[..]
>And what would be the Tango equivalent, I wonder?  ;)

I don't know about Tango, but this is the solution with GNU coreutils -
lame, I know ;)

  find -type f -a \( -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.wma' \)  -print0 | \
  shuf -z | \
  xargs -0 -i cp {} SDCARD_PATH


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