audacious(1) - Linux man page

Name

Audacious - an audio player for X.

Synopsis

audacious [-h] [--help] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v] [--version] [--headless] [filename]...

Description

Audacious is a media player, based on Beep Media Player, which is in turn based on the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kinds of media files. By default Audacious can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, RIFF wav, most module formats, and a few other formats. Audacious can be extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video formats.

Options

Audacious accepts the following options:

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-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.

-m, --show-main-window

Show the main window.

-v, --version

Print version number and exit.

-H, --headless

Starts Audacious in headless mode.

Skins

Audacious supports Winamp Classic style skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format. Audacious looks for skinfiles in ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins, ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, and locations specified by the SKINSDIR variable.

Keybindings

Global keybindings for Audacious:

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 + w

Playlist 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

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

Headless Operation

Audacious supports a headless operation mode, where Audacious does not use X11 and instead operates as a daemon. You should note that you cannot switch between daemonized mode and X11 mode, and that if you wish to switch back and forth, that you need to do so when starting the program.

When using Audacious in headless mode, you will need a client. Clients compatible with Audacious are listed on the Audacious website.

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.

Other Info

The webpage for Audacious is at http://www.audacious-media-player.org. Here you can find info about Audacious, download the latest version, plugins, and skins.