gmusicbrowser (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

gmusicbrowser – Jukebox for large collections of audio files

SYNOPSIS

gmusicbrowser [-c] [-s] [-demo] [-ro] [-rotags] [-play] [-nodbus] [-gst|-nogst] [-server] [-port N] [-C FILE] [-F FIFO|-nofifo] [-debug] [-layout NAME] [-load FILE] [-use-gnome-session] [-cmd|-launch_or_cmd CMD…]

gmusicbrowser -listcmd

gmusicbrowser -remotecmdCMD…

gmusicbrowser -tageditFOLDER_OR_FILE…

DESCRIPTION

This manual page explains the gmusicbrowser program.

gmusicbrowser can play and manage your songs, currently supports mp3, ogg, flac, mpc file formats. see http://gmusicbrowser.sourceforge.net/ for more informations.

OPTIONS

-c

don’t check for updated/deleted songs on startup

-s

don’t scan folders for songs on startup

-demo

don’t check if current song has been updated/deleted

-ro

prevent modifying/renaming/deleting song files

-rotags

prevent modifying tags of music files

-play

start playing on startup

-gst

use gstreamer

-nogst

do not use gstreamer

-nodbus

do not use DBus

-server

send playing song to connected icecast client

-port N

listen for connection on port N in icecast server mode

-C FILE

use FILE as configuration file (instead of ~/.gmusicbroser/tags)

-F FIFO

use FIFO as named pipe to receive commans (instead of ~/.gmusicbroser/gmusicbrowser.fifo)

-nofifo

do not use/create named pipe $FIFOFile

-debug

print lots of useless informations

-layout NAME

use layout NAME for player window

-load FILE

Load FILE as a plugin

-use-gnome-session

Use gnome libraries to save tags/settings on session logout (needs the Gnome2 perl module).

-cmd CMD…

launch gmusicbrowser if not already running, and execute command CMD.

-remotecmd CMD…

execute command CMD in a running gmusicbrowser

-launch_or_cmd CMD…

launch gmusicbrowser if not already running OR execute command CMD in a running gmusicbrowser

-listcmd

list the available fifo commands and exit

-tagedit FOLDER_OR_FILE …

Load songs in FOLDER_OR_FILE and display a dialog to edit their tags.

FILES

~/.gmusicbrowser/tags

contains songs tags and program options

/usr/share/gmusicbrowser/plugins/, ~/.gmusicbrowser/plugins/

files with extention .pm in these folders are loaded as plugins on startup

/usr/share/gmusicbrowser/layouts, ~/.gmusicbrowser/layouts

contains layouts definitions

~/.gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.fifo

can be used to send commands to a running gmusicbrowser, eg : echo CMD >~/.gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.fifo where CMD is (run "gmusicbrowser -listcmd" for an up-to-date list of commands) :

NextSong

Skip current song

PrevSong

choose previously played song

PlayPause

toggle Play/Pause mode

Stop

stop playing

Rewind SEC

rewind SEC seconds

Forward SEC

forward SEC seconds

Browser

open browser window

ShowHide

hide/show gmusicbrowser windows

Quit

quit gmusicbrowser

Save

immediately save settings/song tags in ~/.gmusicbrowser/tags

ChangeDisplay DISPLAY

migrate the program to display DISPLAY (example : ":1")

SEE ALSO

http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html,

BUGS

If you wish to report a bug please use the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Quentin Sculo <squentin [at] free.fr>

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