How to play first n seconds of a mp3 track with systemd?

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Here's my try:

[Unit]
Description=play the a team song

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpg123 /home/pi/Music/the_a_team.mp3
RuntimeMaxSec=10

The song plays 21 seconds and then stops. I don't get it. I also didn't find another solution like telling mpg123 to play just the first n seconds. Please help me. Any solution is fine.

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '17 at 17:16

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Try this:

[Unit]
Description=play the a team song

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ffplay /home/pi/Music/the_a_team.mp3 -t 10 -autoexit -nodisp

Note that ffplay is part of the ffmpeg package.

answered Oct 18 '17 at 17:16

oxagast

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awesome, on the raspberry it was hard to get ffmpeg somehow, but aplay (alsa) has the same feature :) – Lukas Kitsche Nov 22 '17 at 20:29

How to play first n seconds of a mp3 track with systemd?

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