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6 audacious - an advanced audio player.
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10 audacious [option ...] [file ...]
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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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21 Getting help:
22 -h, --help
23 Show a brief list of options.
24 Opening files:
27 -e, --enqueue
28 Add the files on the command line to the current playlist but do
29 not start playback.
30 -E, --enqueue-to-temp
32 Add the files on the command line to the ``Now Playing''
33 playlist and start playback.
34 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
40 the beginning of the song.
41 -u, --pause
43 Pause playback, or resume if already paused.
44 -t, --play-pause
46 Equivalent to --pause if playback is active, otherwise --play.
47 -s, --stop
49 Stop playback.
50 -r, --rew
52 Skip to the previous song in the playlist.
53 -f, --fwd
55 Skip to the next song in the playlist.
56 Miscellaneous:
59 -m, --show-main-window
60 Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring it to the
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62 -j, --show-jump-box
64 Show the Jump to Song window.
65 -H, --headless
67 Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user in‐
68 terface.
69 -q, --quit-after-play
71 Exit as soon as playback stops, or immediately if there is noth‐
72 ing to play.
73 -v, --version
75 Print version information and exit.
76 -V, --verbose
78 Print debugging output while running (may be used twice for even
79 more output).
80 -N, --new-instance
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
84 9 instances).
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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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118 ~/.config/audacious/config, ~/.config/audacious-2/config, etc.
119 Configuration file for each Audacious instance.
120 ~/.config/audacious/playlists, ~/.config/audacious-2/playlists, etc.
122 Folders in which playlists are stored.
123 ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
125 Default locations where Audacious should look for skin files.
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129 SKINSDIR Colon separated list of paths where Audacious should look
130 for skin files.
131 TARCMD Tar command supporting GNU tar style decompression. Used
133 for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is
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135 UNZIPCMD Command for decompressing zip files (skins). Default is
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141 audtool(1)
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145 https://audacious-media-player.org
146Version 4.2 May 2016 AUDACIOUS(1)