.TH AUDACIOUS "1" "May 2016" "Version 4.4.2" "Audacious" .SH NAME audacious \- an advanced audio player. .SH SYNOPSIS .B audacious [\fIoption\fR ...] [\fIfile\fR ...] .SH 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. .SH OPTIONS .SS Getting help: .TP .B -h, --help Show a brief list of options. .SS Opening files: .TP .B -e, --enqueue Add the files on the command line to the current playlist but do not start playback. .TP .B -E, --enqueue-to-temp Add the files on the command line to the ``Now Playing'' playlist and start playback. .SS Controlling playback: .TP .B -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. .TP .B -u, --pause Pause playback, or resume if already paused. .TP .B -t, --play-pause Equivalent to \fB--pause\fR if playback is active, otherwise \fB--play\fR. .TP .B -s, --stop Stop playback. .TP .B -r, --rew Skip to the previous song in the playlist. .TP .B -f, --fwd Skip to the next song in the playlist. .SS Miscellaneous: .TP .B -m, --show-main-window Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring it to the top. .TP .B -j, --show-jump-box Show the Jump to Song window. .TP .B -H, --headless Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user interface. .TP .B -q, --quit-after-play Exit as soon as playback stops, or immediately if there is nothing to play. .TP .B -v, --version Print version information and exit. .TP .B -V, --verbose Print debugging output while running (may be used twice for even more output). .TP .B -N, --new-instance Starts a new instance. The second instance started may be controlled with \fBaudtool -2\fR, the third with \fBaudtool -3\fR, etc. (up to 9 instances). .SH KEYBINDINGS .ta 24 Control + Return Play .br Space, Control + , Pause .br Control + . Stop .br Alt + Up Previous song .br Alt + Down Next song .br Right arrow Seek forward (by default 5 seconds) .br Left arrow Seek backward (by default 5 seconds) .br Escape Scroll to current song .br Control + a Select all songs in playlist .br Shift + Control + a Cancel selection .br Control + + (plus) Increase volume 5 percent .br Control + - (minus) Decrease volume 5 percent .br Control + s Toggle shuffle .br Control + r Toggle repeat .br Control + n Toggle advancing in playlist .br Control + m Toggle stopping after current song .br Control + e Display Equalizer .br Control + y Display Search Tool .br Control + i Display Song Information dialog .br Control + k Display Jump to Time dialog .br Control + j Display Jump to Song dialog .br Control + p Display Playlist Manager dialog .br Control + u Display Queue Manager dialog .br Control + o Display Open Files dialog .br Shift + Control + o Display Add Files dialog .br Control + l Display Open URL dialog .br Shift + Control + l Display Add URL dialog .SH FILES .TP ~/.config/audacious/config, ~/.config/audacious-2/config, etc. Configuration file for each Audacious instance. .TP ~/.config/audacious/playlists, ~/.config/audacious-2/playlists, etc. Folders in which playlists are stored. .TP ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, share/audacious/Skins Default locations where Audacious should look for skin files. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP 12 .B SKINSDIR Colon separated list of paths where Audacious should look for skin files. .TP .B TARCMD Tar command supporting GNU tar style decompression. Used for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is \fItar\fP. .TP .B UNZIPCMD Command for decompressing zip files (skins). Default is \fIunzip\fP. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR audtool (1) .SH WEBSITE .I https://audacious-media-player.org