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 4.4.2 May 2016 AUDACIOUS(1)