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node.js command line MP3 player in 9 lines of code!
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mp3player.js
var fs = require('fs');
var lame = require('lame');
var Speaker = require('speaker');
fs.createReadStream(process.argv[2])
.pipe(new lame.Decoder())
.on('format', function (format) {
this.pipe(new Speaker(format));
});
@Ajedi32
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Ajedi32 commented May 18, 2016

To get this to work I needed to first run:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
npm install --save speaker lame

Just to make that explicit...

@crazyyi
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crazyyi commented Nov 7, 2016 •
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Thanks I use yarn and don't need to install any other packages other than lame and speaker. Very neat code by the way.

@immartian
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is there a way to accommodate an URL stream in this snippet?

@sincerefly
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@eslin You can use https://github.com/jimlawless/cmdmp3 and child_process play short mp3 voice

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