.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Sven Arvidsson .\" .\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, .\" or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\"You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along .\"with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., .\"51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. .TH RHYTHMBOX-CLIENT 1 "June 28, 2007" "GNOME" .SH NAME rhythmbox-client \- controls a running instance of rhythmbox .SH SYNOPSIS .B rhythmbox-client .RI [ option... ] [ file... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B rhythmbox-client is a tool for controlling an already running instance of .B rhythmbox. It's useful for remote control scripting, adding specific files to the library from the shell, or printing details of what's playing. It also has an interactive mode, useful for controlling playback remotely via ssh. Any files specified after the option arguments will be added to the library. If the .B \-\-enqueue option is given, the files will also be added to the play queue. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-?,\-\-help Show help options .TP .B \-\-debug Enable debug output .TP .B \-\-no-start Do not start a new instance of rhythmbox .TP .B \-\-quit Quit rhythmbox .TP .B \-i,\-\-interactive Start interactive mode .B \-\-no-present Don't present an existing rhythmbox window .TP .B \-\-next Jump to next song .TP .B \-\-previous Jump to previous song .TP .B \-\-play Resume playback if currently paused .TP .B \-\-pause Pause playback if currently playing .TP .B \-\-play-pause Toggle play/pause mode .TP .B \-\-stop Stop playback if currently playing .TP .BI "\-\-play-uri="URI Play a specified URI, importing it if necessary .TP .BI \-\-enqueue Add specified tracks already in the library to the play queue .TP .B \-\-clear-queue Empty the play queue before adding new tracks .TP .B \-\-print-playing Print the title and artist of the playing song .TP .BI "\-\-print-playing-format="format Print formatted details of the song (see .SM .B FORMAT OPTIONS below). .TP .B \-\-set-volume Set the playback volume .TP .B \-\-volume-up Increase the playback volume .TP .B \-\-volume-down Decrease the playback volume .TP .B \-\-print-volume Print the current playback volume .TP .BI "\-\-select-source="URI Select the source corresponding to a URI (device or mount point) .TP .BI "\-\-activate-source="URI Select the source corresponding to a URI (device or mount point) and start playing from it if not already playing. .TP .BI "\-\-play-source="URI Select the source corresponding to a URI (device or mount point) and start playing from it. .SH FORMAT OPTIONS .TP %at album title .TP %aa album artist .TP %aA album artist (lowercase) .TP %as album artist sortname .TP %aS album artist sortname (lowercase) .TP %ay album year .TP %ag album genre .TP %aG album genre (lowercase) .TP %an album disc number .TP %aN album disc number, zero padded .TP %st stream title .TP %tn track number (i.e 8) .TP %tN track number, zero padded (i.e 08) .TP %tt track title .TP %ta track artist .TP %tA track artist (lowercase) .TP %ts track artist sortname .TP %tS track artist sortname (lowercase) .TP %td track duration .TP %te track elapsed time .TP Variables can be combined using quotes. For example "%tn %aa %tt", will print the track number followed by the artist and the title of the track. .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson , for the Debian system (but may be used by others). .SH SEE ALSO .BR "rhythmbox" (1).