NAME

audacious - an advanced audio player.
 

SYNOPSIS

audacious [ 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:

-h, --help
Show a brief list of 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 the ``Now Playing'' playlist and start playback.

Controlling playback:

-p, --play
Start playback. If paused, playback will resume from the same point. If already active and not paused, it will restart from the beginning of the song.
-u, --pause
Pause playback, or resume if already paused.
-t, --play-pause
Equivalent to --pause if playback is active, otherwise --play.
-s, --stop
Stop playback.
-r, --rew
Skip to the previous song in the playlist.
-f, --fwd
Skip to the next song in the playlist.

Miscellaneous:

-m, --show-main-window
Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring it to the top.
-j, --show-jump-box
Show the Jump to Song window.
-H, --headless
Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user interface.
-q, --quit-after-play
Exit as soon as playback stops, or immediately if there is nothing to play.
-v, --version
Print version information and exit.
-V, --verbose
Print debugging output while running (may be used twice for even more output).
-N, --new-instance
Starts a new instance. The second instance started may be controlled with audtool -2, the third with audtool -3, etc. (up to 9 instances).
-G, --gtk
Start Audacious using the GTK+ interface.
-Q, --qt
Start Audacious using the Qt interface.

KEYBINDINGS

Control + Return Play
 
Space, Control + , Pause
 
Control + . Stop
 
Alt + Up Previous song
 
Alt + Down Next song
 
Right arrow Seek forward (by default 5 seconds)
 
Left arrow Seek backward (by default 5 seconds)
 
Escape Scroll to current song
 
Control + a Select all songs in playlist
 
Shift + Control + a Cancel selection
 
Control + + (plus) Increase volume 5 percent
 
Control + - (minus) Decrease volume 5 percent
 
Control + s Toggle shuffle
 
Control + r Toggle repeat
 
Control + n Toggle advancing in playlist
 
Control + m Toggle stopping after current song
 
Control + e Display Equalizer
 
Control + y Display Search Tool
 
Control + i Display Song Information dialog
 
Control + k Display Jump to Time dialog
 
Control + j Display Jump to Song dialog
 
Control + p Display Playlist Manager dialog
 
Control + u Display Queue Manager dialog
 
Control + o Display Open Files dialog
 
Shift + Control + o Display Add Files dialog
 
Control + l Display Open URL dialog
 
Shift + Control + l Display Add URL dialog
 

FILES

~/.config/audacious/config, ~/.config/audacious-2/config, etc.
Configuration file for each Audacious instance.
~/.config/audacious/playlists, ~/.config/audacious-2/playlists, etc.
Folders in which playlists are stored.
~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
Default locations where Audacious should look for skin files.

ENVIRONMENT

SKINSDIR
Colon separated list of paths where Audacious should look for skin files.
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.

SEE ALSO

audtool(1)
 

WEBSITE

https://audacious-media-player.org

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