1AUDACIOUS(1)                       Audacious                      AUDACIOUS(1)
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NAME

6       audacious - an advanced audio player.
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SYNOPSIS

10       audacious [option ...] [file ...]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Audacious  is  a  free  advanced  audio player for Linux and many other
15       UNIX-compatible systems.  It focuses on low resource usage, high  audio
16       quality,  and support for a wide range of audio formats.  It was origi‐
17       nally based on Beep Media Player, which was in turn based on XMMS.
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OPTIONS

21   Getting help:
22       -h, --help
23              Show a brief list of options.
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26   Opening files:
27       -e, --enqueue
28              Add the files on the command line to the current playlist but do
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31       -E, --enqueue-to-temp
32              Add  the  files  on  the  command  line  to  the ``Now Playing''
33              playlist and start playback.
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36   Controlling playback:
37       -p, --play
38              Start playback.  If paused, playback will resume from  the  same
39              point.   If  already active and not paused, it will restart from
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42       -u, --pause
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46              Equivalent to --pause if playback is active, otherwise --play.
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58   Miscellaneous:
59       -m, --show-main-window
60              Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring  it  to  the
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67              Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user in‐
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71              Exit as soon as playback stops, or immediately if there is noth‐
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78              Print debugging output while running (may be used twice for even
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82              Starts a new instance.  The second instance started may be  con‐
83              trolled  with audtool -2, the third with audtool -3, etc. (up to
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KEYBINDINGS

88       Control + Return        Play
89       Space, Control + ,      Pause
90       Control + .             Stop
91       Alt + Up                Previous song
92       Alt + Down              Next song
93       Right arrow             Seek forward (by default 5 seconds)
94       Left arrow              Seek backward (by default 5 seconds)
95       Escape                  Scroll to current song
96       Control + a             Select all songs in playlist
97       Shift + Control + a     Cancel selection
98       Control + + (plus)      Increase volume 5 percent
99       Control + - (minus)     Decrease volume 5 percent
100       Control + s             Toggle shuffle
101       Control + r             Toggle repeat
102       Control + n             Toggle advancing in playlist
103       Control + m             Toggle stopping after current song
104       Control + e             Display Equalizer
105       Control + y             Display Search Tool
106       Control + i             Display Song Information dialog
107       Control + k             Display Jump to Time dialog
108       Control + j             Display Jump to Song dialog
109       Control + p             Display Playlist Manager dialog
110       Control + u             Display Queue Manager dialog
111       Control + o             Display Open Files dialog
112       Shift + Control + o     Display Add Files dialog
113       Control + l             Display Open URL dialog
114       Shift + Control + l     Display Add URL dialog
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FILES

118       ~/.config/audacious/config, ~/.config/audacious-2/config, etc.
119              Configuration file for each Audacious instance.
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121       ~/.config/audacious/playlists, ~/.config/audacious-2/playlists, etc.
122              Folders in which playlists are stored.
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124       ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
125              Default locations where Audacious should look for skin files.
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ENVIRONMENT

129       SKINSDIR    Colon separated list of paths where Audacious  should  look
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132       TARCMD      Tar  command  supporting GNU tar style decompression.  Used
133                   for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins.  Default  is
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136       UNZIPCMD    Command  for  decompressing  zip files (skins).  Default is
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SEE ALSO

141       audtool(1)
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WEBSITE

145       https://audacious-media-player.org
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