AUDACIOUS

Section: Audacious (1)
Updated: May 2016
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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).

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.

WEBSITE

https://audacious-media-player.org