.\" Man page generated from reStructuredText. . .TH QUODLIBET 1 "" "" "" .SH NAME quodlibet \- audio library manager and player . .nr rst2man-indent-level 0 . .de1 rstReportMargin \\$1 \\n[an-margin] level \\n[rst2man-indent-level] level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] - \\n[rst2man-indent0] \\n[rst2man-indent1] \\n[rst2man-indent2] .. .de1 INDENT .\" .rstReportMargin pre: . RS \\$1 . nr rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level] \\n[an-margin] . nr rst2man-indent-level +1 .\" .rstReportMargin post: .. .de UNINDENT . RE .\" indent \\n[an-margin] .\" old: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .nr rst2man-indent-level -1 .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. .SH SYNOPSIS .nf \fBquodlibet\fP [ \fB\-\-print\-playing\fP | \fIcontrol\fP ] \fBexfalso\fP [ \fIdirectory\fP ] .fi .sp .SH DESCRIPTION .sp Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities. .sp This manual page is only a short reference for Quod Libet. Complete documentation is available at \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/index.html\fP\&. .SH OPTIONS .INDENT 0.0 .TP .BI \-\-add\-location\fB= Add a file or directory to the library .TP .B \-\-debug Print debugging information .TP .BI \-\-enqueue\fB= Enqueue a filename or query results .TP .BI \-\-enqueue\-files\fB= Enqueue comma\-separated files .TP .BI \-\-filter \ Filter on a tag value .TP .B \-\-focus Focus the running player .TP .B \-\-force\-previous Jump to previous song .TP .B \-\-help Display brief usage information .TP .B \-\-hide\-window Hide main window .TP .B \-\-list\-browsers List available browsers .TP .B \-\-next Jump to next song .TP .B \-\-no\-plugins Start without plugins .TP .BI \-\-open\-browser\fB= BrowserName Open a new browser .TP .B \-\-pause Pause playback .TP .B \-\-play Start playback .TP .BI \-\-play\-file\fB= filename Play a file .TP .B \-\-play\-pause Toggle play/pause mode .TP .B \-\-previous Jump to previous song if near the beginning, otherwise restart .TP .B \-\-print\-playing Print out information about the currently playing song. You may provide in a string like the kind described in the RENAMING FILES section below. .TP .B \-\-print\-playlist Print the current playlist .TP .BI \-\-print\-query\fB= Print filenames of results of query .TP .B \-\-print\-query\-text Print the active text query .TP .B \-\-print\-queue Print the contents of the queue .TP .BI \-\-query\fB= search\-string Search your audio library .TP .BI \-\-queue\fB= Show or hide the queue .TP .B \-\-quit Exit Quod Libet .TP .BI \-\-random\fB= tag Filter on a random value .TP .BI \-\-rating\fB= <[+|\-]0.0..1.0> Set rating of playing song .TP .B \-\-rating\-down Decrease rating of playing song by one star .TP .B \-\-rating\-up Increase rating of playing song by one star .TP .B \-\-refresh Refresh and rescan library .TP .BI \-\-repeat\fB= Turn repeat off, on, or toggle .TP .BI \-\-repeat\-type\fB= Repeat the currently playing song, the current list, stop after one song, or turn repeat off .TP .B \-\-run Start Quod Libet if it isn\(aqt running .TP .BI \-\-seek\fB= <[+|\-][HH:]MM:SS> Seek within the playing song .TP .BI \-\-set\-browser\fB= BrowserName Set the current browser .TP .B \-\-show\-window Show main window .TP .BI \-\-shuffle\fB= Turn shuffle off, on, or toggle .TP .BI \-\-shuffle\-type\fB= Set the shuffle type to be random, to prefer higher rated songs, or turn shuffle off .TP .B \-\-start\-hidden Don\(aqt show any windows on start .TP .B \-\-start\-playing Begin playing immediately .TP .B \-\-status Print playing status .TP .B \-\-stop Stop playback .TP .BI \-\-stop\-after\fB= <0|1|t> Stop after the playing song .TP .B \-\-toggle\-window Toggle main window visibility .TP .B \-\-unfilter Remove active browser filters .TP .BI \-\-unqueue\fB= Unqueue a file or query .TP .B \-\-version Display version and copyright .TP .BI \-\-volume\fB= <[+|\-]0..100> Set the volume .TP .B \-\-volume\-down Turn down the volume .TP .B \-\-volume\-up Turn up the volume .UNINDENT .SH ALBUM COVERS .sp Album covers should be put in the same directory as the songs they apply to, and have "folder", "front", or "cover" in their filenames. If you want to store multiple albums in the same directory but keep distinct cover images, the name of the appropriate image file must contain the labelid tag value, e.g. COCX\-32760 cover.jpg. .SH TIED TAGS .sp Many places in Quod Libet allow you to use "tied tags". Tied tags are two tag names joined together with a "~" like "title~version" or "album~part". Tied tags result in "nice" displays even when one of the tags is missing; for example, "title~version" will result in Title \- Version when a version tag is present, but only Title when one isn\(aqt. You can tie any number of tags together. .SH SEARCH SYNTAX .sp All of Quod Libet\(aqs search boxes support advanced searches of the following forms: .sp .nf tag = value tag = !value tag = "value" tag = /value/ tag = &(value1, value2) tag = |(value1, value2) !tag = value |(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2) &(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2) #(numerictag < value) #(numerictag = value) #(numerictag > value) .fi .sp .sp .sp The \(aqc\(aq postfix on strings or regular expressions makes the search case\-sensitive. Numeric values may be given as integers, floating\-point numbers, MM:SS format, or simple English, e.g. "3 days", "2 hours". .sp See \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/searching.html\fP\&. .sp All internal tags begin with a ~ character. Non\-numeric internal tags are ~base‐ name, ~dirname, ~filename, ~format, ~length, ~people, and ~rating. Numeric internal tags are ~#added, ~#bitrate, ~#disc, ~#lastplayed, ~#laststarted, ~#length, ~#mtime, ~#playcount, ~#skipcount, and ~#track. .sp See \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/tags/internal_tags.html\fP\&. .SH RENAMING FILES .sp Quod Libet allows you to rename files based on their tags. In some cases you may wish to alter the filename depending on whether some tags are present or missing, in addition to their values. A common pattern might be .sp \fB. \fP .sp You can use a \(aq|\(aq to only text when a tag is present: .sp \fB. >\fP .sp You can also specify literal text to use if the tag is missing by adding another \(aq|\(aq: .sp \fB|No Album> \- \fP .sp See \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/renaming_files.html\fP\&. .SH AUDIO BACKENDS .sp Quod Libet uses GStreamer for audio playback. It tries to read your GConf GStreamer configuration, but if that fails it falls back to osssink. You can change the pipeline option in ~/.quodlibet/config to use a different sink, or pass options to the sink. For example, you might use esdsink or alsasink device=hw:1. .sp See \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/playback/backends.html\fP\&. .SH FILES .INDENT 0.0 .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/songs A pickled Python dict of cached metadata. Deleting this file will remove all songs from your library. .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/config Quod Libet\(aqs configuration file. This file is overwritten when Quod Libet exits. .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/current A "key=value" file containing information about the currently playing song. .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/control A FIFO connected to the most\-recently\-started instance of the program. \-\-next, \-\-previous, etc., use this to control the player. .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/plugins/ Put plugins here. .TP .B ~/.quodlibet/browsers/ Put custom library browsers here. .UNINDENT .sp See \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/interacting.html\fP\&. .SH BUGS .sp See \fI\%https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues\fP for a list of all currently open bugs and feature requests. .SH AUTHORS .sp Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Quod Libet. .SH SEE ALSO .nf \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/\fP, \fI\%https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/faq.html\fP, \fBregex\fP(7), \fBgst\-launch\fP(1) .fi .sp .\" Generated by docutils manpage writer. .