xmms (1) Linux Manual Page

XMMS – an audio player for X.

Synopsis

xmms [-h] [–help] [-n <session>] [–session=<session>] [-r] [–rew] [-p] [–play] [-u] [–pause] [-s] [–stop] [-t] [–play-pause] [-f] [–fwd] [-e] [–enqueue] [-S] [–toggle-shuffle] [-R] [–toggle-repeat] [-A] [–toggle-advance] [-m] [–show-main-window] [-q] [–quit] [-i <session id>] [–sm-client-id=<session id>] [-v] [–version] [filename]…

Description

XMMS is the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kinds of media files. By default XMMS can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, RIFF wav, most module formats and a few other formats. XMMS can be extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video formats.

Options

XMMS accepts the following options:

-h, –help

Show summary of options.

-n, –session

Select XMMS session (Default: 0).

-r, –rew

Skip backwards in playlist.

-p, –play

Start playing current playlist.

-u, –pause

Pause current song.

-s, –stop

Stop current song.

-t, –play-pause

Pause if playing, play otherwise.

-f, –fwd

Skip forward in playlist.

-e, –enqueue

Don’t clear the playlist.

-Q, –queue

Add file(s) to playlist and queue

-S, –toggle-shuffle[=SWITCH]

Toggle the ‘shuffle’ flag.

Optional argument SWITCH may be either ‘on’ or ‘off’

-R, –toggle-repeat[=SWITCH]

Toggle the ‘repeat’ flag.

Optional argument SWITCH may be either ‘on’ or ‘off’

-A, –toggle-advance[=SWITCH]

Toggle the ‘no playlist advance’ flag.

Optional argument SWITCH may be either ‘on’ or ‘off’

-m, –show-main-window

Show the main window.

-i, –sm-client-id

Set session manager identification.

-v, –version

Print version number and exit.

-q, –quit

Close remote session.

Skins

XMMS supports WinAmp style skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format. XMMS looks for skinfiles in /usr/share/xmms/Skins, ~/.xmms/Skins, and locations specified by the SKINSDIR variable.

Keybindings

Global keybindings for XMMS:

z                   Previous song

x                  Play

c                  Pause

v                  Stop

b                  Next song

l                  Play file

j                  Jump to file

r                  Toggle Repeat

s                  Toggle Shuffle

Shift + l          Play directory

Control + l        Play location

Control + p        Preferences dialog

Control + v        Visualization plugin dialog

Control + r        Time remaining

Control + a        Always on top

Control + w        Winshade mode

Control + d        Doublesize mode

Control + e        Easy move

Control + j        Jump to time

Control + z        Start of list

Control + n        No Playlist Advance

Control + 3        File info dialog

Control + Alt + w  Toggle Equalizer winshade mode

Shift + Control + wPlaylist winshade mode

Alt + w            Hide/show mainwindow

Alt + e            Hide/show playlistwindow

Alt + g            Hide/show Equalizer

Alt + s            Skin selecting window

Main window specific:

Arrow key up       Volume up 2%

Arrow key down     Volume down 2%

Arrow key right    Skip 5 seconds forward in song

Arrow key left     Skip 5 seconds back in song

Playlist window specific:

Arrow key up       Up one step in playlist

Arrow key down     Down one step in playlist

Delete             Remove selected songs from playlist

Control + Delete   Keeps the selected tracks and removes the rest

Q                  Queue/Dequeue the tracks selected

Shift + Q          Clear the queue list

Alt + Q            Queue manager

Page Up            Move one page up

Page Down          Move one page down

Home               First page in playlist

End                Last page in playlist

Enter              Play selected song

Insert             Add file dialog

Shift + Insert     Add directory dialog

Alt + Insert       Add url dialog

Equalizer shade mode specific:

Arrow key up       Volume up 2%

Arrow key down     Volume down 2%

Arrow key right    Balance 4% to right

Arrow key left     Balance 4% to left

Files

~/.xmms/config

Users xmms configuration.

~/.xmms/xmms.m3u

Default playlist usually loaded on startup.

~/.xmms/gtkrc

Users set of xmms-specific GTK config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.

~/.xmms/menurc

Users set of keybindings.

~/.xmms/Skins, /usr/share/xmms/Skins

Default locations where XMMS should look for skinfiles.

~/.xmms/Plugins

Location of user installed plugins.

Environment

SKINSDIR

Colon separated list of paths where XMMS 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.

Other Info

The webpage for XMMS is at http://www.xmms.org. Here you can find info about XMMS, download the latest version, plugins, and skins.

See Also

wmxmms(1)