5.4 Playing MP3s

You can use the five small buttons at the bottom right of the GUI to control your MP3 player. The play, pause and stop buttons will only work with XMMS, if you are using a command-line player they don't do anything.

Press the first button on the left to start playing an MP3 (not the play button). Doodah selects which MP3 to play next by moving through each playlist in turn looking for an MP3 which hasn't already been played. This allows you to use doodah as a jukebox where if it can't find any requests in the `Requests' playlist it will resort to playing random choices from the `Random' playlist. Then once you've added an MP3 to the requests playlist it will continue to play the requests after the last MP3 if finished.

If you're using XMMS the next mp3 button will start a new XMMS session if it can't find one already on the XMMS session number you set. Otherwise it will just pass the filename of the new MP3 and tell XMMS to begin playing.

The play, pause and stop buttons only work with XMMS and work exactly as if you pressed them directly from XMMS.

The auto play button at the end (looks like a tick) is a toggle button. If set it will cause doodah to check every second whether your player is playing anything. If it isn't it will tell it to play the next song in the playlists, just as if you pressed the next button. This is the only way to get doodah to play the next song after the last song has finished. You'll usually want to tick it as soon as you've set up your playlists.