node.js command line MP3 player in 9 lines of code!

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));
  });

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...

Thanks I use yarn and don't need to install any other packages other than lame and speaker. Very neat code by the way.

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

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