Shirley Marquez

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If you need to play obscure music formats, you can pull out the jack of all trades of media players, vlc. It has a huge number of command line options. There is also the command line-oriented variation, cvlc, which plays media without bringing up the GUI.

The simplest case:

cvlc

will play a file, just as mpg123 does... except that it will play just about any imaginable audio format.

Oops -- the media file name should also be on that command line! I tried to put the meta-thing in of the name in angle brackets but the forum software ate it!