Low tech Mac music player

play.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

def play songs
  song = songs[rand songs.length].strip
  puts song
  song.gsub!('`','\\\\`')
  $pid = Process.spawn "afplay -v .2 \"#{song}\""
  Process.wait $pid
  sleep 1
end

Kernel.trap('INT')  { Process.kill "INT", $pid }
Kernel.trap('TSTP') { puts "Exiting...";  exit }

file =  File.expand_path( ARGV[0] || "~/music.list")
songs = File.readlines(file)

play songs while true