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silverjuke - Play and organize your music

silverjuke [options] [FILES]

This manual page documents briefly the silverjuke command. It can be used to play and organize your music collection.

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('-'). silverjuke supports the following options:

set the configuration file to use to FILE
set the jukebox file to use to FILE
set the temporary directory to use to DIRECTORY
start playing the current file
pause the playback
toggle play/pause
play previous file in list
play next file in list
start Silverjuke in kiosk mode
start Silverjuke minimized
open the given FILES, --open may be omitted
enqueue the given FILES
Show all available commands
Adds the number of credits (tracks that may be enqueued) to the credit system. This option only works if the option "Credits may be added by external programs" is enabled in the kiosk mode settings.
Sets the number of credits. This option only works if the option "Credits may be added by external programs" is enabled in the kiosk mode settings.
With this option you can avoid showing errors about an erroneous termination on the last Silverjuke run. This is especially useful when turning off Silverjuke using the "Power off" button, as in this case the operating system may not give us the time we need to unload all modules completely.
If you give a different INI-file to each instance, you can use multiple instances of Silverjuke with this option. All settings for each instance are stored in the INI-file, so the instances are completely independent; however, make sure, there are no conflicts regarding the used hardware. You can give the INI-files as complete paths; if the files do not exist, they are created as needed.

If you want to use different music libraries for each instance, you have to use the --jukebox=FILE option as described above.

This will automatically update the index as if you hit F5 just after starting Silverjuke. If you use this option in combination with --kiosk and the kiosk mode is running with limited functionality, the update process cannot be aborted.

With this option you can force the Silverjuke window to the given rectangle when using the kiosk mode. This is useful if you want to show sth. beside the Silverjuke window (by default, the whole screen is used).

Moreover, if you add the "clipmouse" modifier, the mouse cannot be moved outside the given rectangle. Instead of X,Y,W,H you can also give a simple DISPLAY number, the first display has the number 1.

Assign a static portion of the screen to the visualization. Instead of X,Y,W,H you can also give a simple DISPLAY number, the first display has the number 1.
Areas to cover by black rectangles. Instead of X,Y,W,H you can also give a simple DISPLAY number, the first display has the number 1.

increase the main volume
decrease the main volume
toggle the selected visualizations on and off
Execute the given script snippet or file. With this command line option you are able to execute any little script by the command line. For scripting details, please refer to the Silverjuke SDK. Instead of using the command line for this purpose, you can also use DDE, which, however, is a little bit more tricky.

Although there is always only one instance of Silverjuke running, you may call Silverjuke with these commands which will then be forwarded to the running instance if possible.

You can set the "db", "temp", "kiosk" and "minimize" options also manually to the current configuration file (ini file) in the section "main".

Most commands are also available through TCP/IP communication.

Björn Petersen <r10s@b44t.com>

2016-02-09 16.2