simple player for mp3s

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Frank <beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 09:36:39 +0400
> Andrew Savchenko <bircoph at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, 12 May 2011 23:12:18 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote:
>> > I have been checking my collection of mp3s and
>> > find a need a simple player to check audio quality etc.
>> > Does anybody have any suggestions? I am running Debian
>>
>> mpg123, mpg321.
>>
>
>  These are the first ones I tried. However I'd like to be
> able to end the playing easily, preferably with the press of an
> escape key (much like feh, which I use to preview jpgs etc).
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong but it seems mpg123 only quits with a
> double press of control-c ?

Sounds like mplayer would fit your needs, you can end playing with a
single press of escape (or enter key to move to next track if you
played *.mp3).