Play Music from iTunes in Terminal

Question

Is there a way to play music from iTunes with a Terminal command? I've tried to do this with the afplay command, but the music won't play because of a locked mp4 music file.

Answer 1

You can use AppleScript to play Music via iTunes.

osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to play playlist "My Favorites"'

Answer 2

Well, in the NeXTSTEP spirit-

open /path/to/file.m4p

which will open file.m4p in iTunes.