Audacious2 (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

audacious2 – an advanced audio player.

SYNOPSIS

audacious2 [OPTION] … [FILE] …

DESCRIPTION

Audacious is a free advanced audio player for Linux and many other UNIX-compatible systems. It focuses on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It was originally based on Beep Media Player, which was in turn based on XMMS.

OPTIONS

Getting help:

-?, –help: Show a brief list of options.
–help-all: Show a complete list of options.
–help-gtk: Show a list of GTK+-related options.
–help-sm-client: Show a list of session management options.

Opening files:

-e, –enqueue: Add the files on the command line to the current playlist but do not start playback.
-E, –enqueue-to-temp: Add the files on the command line to a temporary playlist and start playback.

Controlling playback:

-p, –play: If currently playing, go to the beginning of the song; otherwise, begin playing.
-u, –pause: Stop playing.
-t, –play-pause: If currently playing, stop playing; otherwise, begin playing.
-s, –stop: Stop playing and go to the beginning of the song.
-r, –rew: Go to the previous song in the playlist.
-f, –fwd: Go to the next song in the playlist.

Miscellaneous:

-v, –version: Show the installed version of Audacious.
-i, –interface newui | skinned | headless: Start Audacious with the given interface. "newui" is the native GTK+ interface. "skinned" is an interface which uses Winamp Classic skins. (Skins can be placed in ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins, ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, and the folder specified by the environment variable SKINSDIR. They can be unarchived or in the following archive formats: .zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2.) In "headless" mode, Audacious starts without a user interface. In this mode, it can only be controlled from the command line or by a compatible client program.
-m, –show-main-window: Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring it to the top.

GTK+-related:

–display DISPLAY: Start Audacious on the given X display.
–screen SCREEN: Start Audacious on the given X screen.
–sync: Use synchronous X calls.
–name NAME: Set Audacious’s program name (for use by the window manager).
–class CLASS: Set Audacious’s program class (for use by the window manager).
–gtk-module MODULE: Load a GTK+ module manually.
–g-fatal-warnings: Treat all warnings as fatal errors.

Session management:

–sm-client-disable: Do not connect to the session manager.
–sm-client-id ID: Set session management ID.
–sm-client-state-file FILE: Load saved configuration from FILE.

KEYBINDINGS

z Previous song

x Play

c, Space Pause

v Stop

b Next song

Right arrow Seek forward 5 seconds

Left arrow Seek backward 5 seconds

Control + z Go to beginning of playlist

Escape Scroll to current song

Control + a Select all songs in playlist

Shift + Control + a Cancel selection

s Toggle shuffle

r Toggle repeat

Control + n Toggle advancing in playlist

Control + m Toggle stopping after current song

Control + e Show elapsed time

Control + r Show time remaining

Alt + e Show/hide playlist

Alt + g Show/hide equalizer

Control + o Toggle windows always on top

Control + s Toggle windows on all workspaces

Control + w Toggle rolling up main window

Control + Alt + w Toggle rolling up equalizer

Shift + Control + w Toggle rolling up playlist

Control + d Toggle double size

i Display Song Information dialog

Control + j Display Jump to Time dialog

j Display Jump to Song dialog

Control + f Display Search dialog

l Display Open dialog

f Display Add dialog

Control + l Display Open Internet Address dialog

Control + h Display Add Internet Address dialog

Control + p Display Preferences dialog

FILES

~/.config/audacious/config: User’s Audacious configuration.
~/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf: Default playlist usually loaded on startup.
~/.config/audacious/gtkrc: User’s set of Audacious-specific GTK+ config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.
~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins: Default location(s) where Audacious should look for skinfiles.
~/.local/share/audacious/Plugins: Location of user-installed plugins.

ENVIRONMENT

SKINSDIR: Colon separated list of paths where Audacious should look for skinfiles.
TARCMD: Tar command supporting GNU tar style decompression. Used for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is tar.
UNZIPCMD: Command for decompressing zip files (skins). Default is unzip.

WEBSITE

http://audacious-media-player.org

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