audacious - an advanced audio player.
audacious [option ...] [file ...]
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.
- -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.
- -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.
- -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).
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
- ~/.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.
- 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.
https://audacious-media-player.org