TITLE: VLC from the command line on macOS DATE: 2018-08-06 AUTHOR: John L. Godlee ==================================================================== I download podcasts using pypodd, then I want to play the files, but I don't want to leave the terminal. I found out that VLC has a some command line options, including ad really nice ncurses interface. I made an alias in my .bash_profile which starts VLC in the right way and plays a nominated file: [pypodd]: https://github.com/johngodlee/pypodd [VLC]: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ alias vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I ncurses" Then in bash I can type: vlc file.mp3 to open VLC and play the file. There are lots of other arguments to use VLC in the command line, most of which are documented here. [here]: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Advanced_Use_of_VLC/ ![VLC terminal screenshot](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/vlc/vlc.png)