Play 100 random songs on Linux from the selected folders with VLC media player

play_random_music.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Directories containing your music files
MUSIC_DIRS=(
  "/home/YOUR/MUSIC/FOLDER/"
  "/home/YOUR/MUSIC/FOLDER/2/"
)

# Number of random songs to play
NUM_SONGS=100

# Check if VLC is installed
if ! command -v vlc &> /dev/null
then
    echo "VLC is not installed. Please install VLC to use this script."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if the directories exist
for MUSIC_DIR in "${MUSIC_DIRS[@]}"; do
  if [ ! -d "$MUSIC_DIR" ]; then
    echo "Directory $MUSIC_DIR does not exist."
    exit 1
  fi
done

# Find all music files in all directories (excluding subdirectories) and select random ones
FIND_COMMANDS=()
for MUSIC_DIR in "${MUSIC_DIRS[@]}"; do
  FIND_COMMANDS+=("$MUSIC_DIR")
done

mapfile -t MUSIC_FILES < <(find "${FIND_COMMANDS[@]}" -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -iname "*.mp3" -o -iname "*.wav" -o -iname "*.flac" -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.opus" -o -iname "*.m4a" \) | shuf -n $NUM_SONGS)

echo $MUSIC_FILES

# Check if enough files were found
if [ ${#MUSIC_FILES[@]} -lt $NUM_SONGS ]; then
  echo "Not enough music files found in the directory."
  exit 1
fi

# Play the random songs with VLC
vlc "${MUSIC_FILES[@]}" --play-and-exit