Mplayer controls when using stdin playlists

Question

I ran across this post: How can I retain the console input in mplayer when reading from stdin?

But the answer there doesn't work for me. (and I can't comment due to not enough rep)

I'm running the following command:

ls -l | grep -e mp3 -e wav | awk '{i=index($0,$9); $0=substr($0,i); printf "./"$0"\n"}' | grep " " | mplayer -playlist -

and this works fine. (minus controls)

I try this: (as proposed in the above question)

ls -l | grep -e mp3 -e wav | awk '{i=index($0,$9); $0=substr($0,i); printf "./"$0"\n"}' | grep " " | mplayer -playlist /dev/fd/3 3<&0 </dev/tty

and it gives me this:

Playing /dev/fd/./Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall.mp3.
File not found: '/dev/fd/./Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall.mp3'
Failed to open /dev/fd/./Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall.mp3.

can someone explain what I am doing wrong (and how to fix it?)

Currently running ubuntu 12.10 using sh.

Answer 1

It's just that your file paths are relative, and mplayer seems to interpret that as relative to the playlist's location (and not your working directory or whatever). For a zeroth approximation, you can replace "./" with your current directory, but what I'd find easier is to use

find "$(pwd)"  -maxdepth 1 -name \*.mp3 -o -name \*.wav | mplayer -playlist /dev/fd/3 3<&0 0</dev/tty

(So your ls,grep,awk is replaced by this find. Admittedly, I've not double-checked completely if it is entirely equivalent. Removing the -maxdepth would make it recurse into subdirectories, which might be what you want anyway? man find is your friend here.)

Answer 2

mplayer thinks relative paths in the playlist are relative to the directory where the playlist is. Try using absolute paths; change your awk script to something like

awk -v dir="$(pwd)" '{ ... ; printf dir "/" $0 "\n" }'