SYNOPSIS
audacious [option ...] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
Getting help:
- -h, --help
-
Show a brief list of options.
Opening files:
- -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.
Controlling 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.
Miscellaneous:
- -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).
KEYBINDINGS
Control + Return PlaySpace, 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
FILES
- ~/.config/audacious/config
- User's Audacious configuration.
- ~/.config/audacious/playlists
- Folder in which playlists are stored.
- ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
-
Default locations where Audacious should look for skin files.
ENVIRONMENT
- 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.