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).

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

User's Audacious configuration.

~/.config/audacious/playlists

Folder in which playlists are stored.

~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/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¶

http://audacious-media-player.org