AUDACIOUS(1)                       Audacious                      AUDACIOUS(1)



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, 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

Version 4.3.1                      May 2016                       AUDACIOUS(1)