1XMMS2-ET(1) General Commands Manual XMMS2-ET(1)
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6 xmms2-et - transmits an anonymous informative packet to the XMMS2 team
7 on each song change
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10 xmms2-et
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13 XMMS2 is a redesign of the XMMS (http://xmms2.org) music player. It
14 features a client-server model, allowing multiple (even simultaneous!)
15 user interfaces, both textual and graphical. All common audio formats
16 are supported using plugins. On top of this, there is a flexible media
17 library to organize your music.
18 xmms2-et is the ET Phone Home Client for XMMS2. xmms2-et is designed
20 to transmit a packet of information to the XMMS2 team whenever a new
21 song is played. The packet is anonymous and does not contain metadata
22 about the song being played. The specifics of what data is transmitted
23 to the XMMS2 team can be found in the ET PACKET section of this manual
24 page.
25 xmms2-et is used for release engineering by the XMMS2 team. During a
27 release cycle, the usage of various plugins, operating systems, and
28 XMMS2 components is collected from data transmitted by the xmms2-et
29 client. A release is made when sufficient testing has occured as deter‐
30 mined by the number of related xmms2-et packets that the XMMS2 team has
31 received.
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34 The following data is transmitted with every packet transmitted by
35 xmms2-et:
36 XMMS2-ET status
38 Begins XMMS2-ET packets; status gives a descriptive message
39 denoting what this packet is about. (e.g. Clean shutdown,
40 Unclean shutdown, New media)
41 version=version
43 contains the version of the XMMS2 daemon
44 system=os
46 contains the name and release of the operating system on which
47 xmms2d is running
48 output=output_plugin
50 contains the output plugin being used to playback audio by
51 xmms2d
52 starttime=start_time
54 contains the time at which the xmms2-et client was started
55 uptime=xmms2d_uptime
57 contains the uptime of the xmms2-et client
58 playlistloads=times
60 contains the number of times a playlist has been loaded from the
61 Media Library
62 mlibresolves=times
64 contains the number of times that metadata has been resolved for
65 media in the Media Library
66 The following data is different for each song being played:
68 decoder=plugin
70 contains the decoder plugin used to playback the last played
71 song
72 transport=plugin
74 contains the transport plugin used to read the last played song
75 samplefmt:in=in_fmt
77 contains the sample format of the original audio file of the
78 last played song
79 samplefmt:out=out_fmt
81 contains the sample format that was sent to the output plugin
82 for the last played song
83 samplerate:in=in_rate
85 contains the sample rate of the original audio file of the last
86 played song
87 samplerate:out=out_rate
89 contains the sample rate that was sent to the output plugin for
90 the last played song
91 channels:in=number_in
93 contains the number of channels of the original audio file of
94 the last played song
95 channels:out=number_out
97 contains the number of channels that were sent to the output
98 plugin for the last played song
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101 XMMS_PATH
102 The URL path to xmms2d. See IPC SOCKET in xmms2d(8) for details
103 of possible values for this variable
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107 xmms2(1), xmms2d(8), http://xmms2.org
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110 The XMMS2 Project was started by Tobias Rundström and Anders Gustafs‐
111 son. It is developed with their lead by a small group of contributers
112 from all over the world.
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115 This manual page was written by Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex@foxy‐
116 banana.com>
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