EXAILE
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2019
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NAME
Exaile - music manager and player
SYNOPSIS
exaile
[
,OPTION/...] [
,LOCATION/...]
DESCRIPTION
Launch Exaile, optionally adding tracks specified by LOCATION to the active
playlist. If Exaile is already running, this attempts to use the existing
instance instead of creating a new one.
Playback Options:
- -n, --next
-
Play the next track
- -p, --prev
-
Play the previous track
- -s, --stop
-
Stop playback
- -a, --play
-
Play
- -u, --pause
-
Pause
- -t, --play-pause
-
Pause or resume playback
- --stop-after-current
-
Stop playback after current track
Collection Options:
- --add LOCATION
-
Add tracks from LOCATION to the collection
Playlist Options:
- --export-playlist LOCATION
-
Export the current playlist to LOCATION
Track Options:
- -q, --query
-
Query player
- --format-query FORMAT
-
Retrieve the current playback state and track
information as FORMAT
- --format-query-tags TAGS
-
Tags to retrieve from the current track; use with
--format-query
- --gui-query
-
Show a popup with data of the current track
- --get-title
-
Print the title of current track
- --get-album
-
Print the album of current track
- --get-artist
-
Print the artist of current track
- --get-length
-
Print the length of current track
- --set-rating N
-
Set rating for current track to N%
- --get-rating
-
Get rating for current track
- --current-position
-
Print the current playback position as time
- --current-progress
-
Print the current playback progress as percentage
Volume Options:
- -i N, --increase-vol N
-
Increase the volume by N%
- -l N, --decrease-vol N
-
Decrease the volume by N%
- -m, --toggle-mute
-
Mute or unmute the volume
- --get-volume
-
Print the current volume percentage
Other Options:
- --new
-
Start new instance
- -h, --help
-
Show this help message and exit
- --version
-
Show program's version number and exit.
- --start-minimized
-
Start minimized (to tray, if possible)
- --toggle-visible
-
Toggle visibility of the GUI (if possible)
- --safemode
-
Start in safe mode - sometimes useful when you're
running into problems
- --force-import
-
Force import of old data from version 0.2.x
(overwrites current data)
- --no-import
-
Do not import old data from version 0.2.x
- --start-anyway
-
Make control options like --play start Exaile if it is
not running
Development/Debug Options:
- --datadir DIRECTORY
-
Set data directory
- --all-data-dir DIRECTORY
-
Set data and config directory
- --modulefilter MODULE
-
Limit log output to MODULE
- --levelfilter LEVEL
-
Limit log output to LEVEL
- --debug
-
Show debugging output
- --eventdebug
-
Enable debugging of xl.event. Generates lots of output
- --eventdebug-full
-
Enable full debugging of xl.event. Generates LOTS of
output
- --threaddebug
-
Add thread name to logging messages.
- --eventfilter TYPE
-
Limit xl.event debug to output of TYPE
- --quiet
-
Reduce level of output
-
--startgui
- --no-dbus
-
- Disable D-Bus support
- --no-hal
-
Disable HAL support.