AUDACIOUS

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, ${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

https://audacious-media-player.org