AUDACIOUS(1) Audacious AUDACIOUS(1)NAMEaudacious - an advanced audio player.
SYNOPSISaudacious [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 origi‐
nally 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 noth‐
ing 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 ALSOaudtool(1)WEBSITE
http://audacious-media-player.org
Version 3.7.1 July 2015 AUDACIOUS(1)
