audtty(1) Control Audacious from the command line with a friendly ncurses

SYNOPSIS

audtty [<-|+>ahlntV] [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

audtty is a simple application for controlling Audacious from the command line. It is designed to make common, simple tasks fast and easy to do. It is operated using arrow keys and standard Audacious keys, to make it easy and intuitive to learn.

OPTIONS

To negate a short option, use '+' instead of '-' (e.g. +a).
Long-options are negated with no-, (e.g. --no-read-all).
The keys for basic control are as follows:
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       z  x  c  v  b
-a, --read-all
Read all titles and lengths on startup (EXTREMELY SLOW) (default off).
-h, --help
Print help message.
-l, --length
Show length of track in playlist (SLOW) (default on).
-n, --numbers
Show numbers in playlist (default on).
-t, --title
Read the title from ID3/ogg-tags (SLOW) (default on).
-V, --version
Display version information.

Tip: Things going slow? Try audtty -ntl

KEYS

Arrow right/left
Skip forward/backward 5 seconds.
Arrow up/down
Move up/down in the playlist or search results.
Page up/down
Scroll up/down one page in the playlist or search results.
Enter
Select and play file.
Esc
Exit from application, or, if in other dialog, go to main view.
0 or +
Increase volume.
9 or -
Decrease volume.
a
Open a file browser window.
b
Jump to next song.
c
Pause.
d
Remove currently selected item from playlist.
j
Search for file to jump to.
L
Add URI to playlist.
q
Exit from application.
R
Reload playlist.
u
Save playlist.
v
Stop
x
Play
z
Jump to previuos song

FILE BROWSER

Enter
Will either add the current selection if it is a file, or change directories if it is a directory.
a or A
Will add selected file or directory to the playlist.
q or Esc
Exit back to the main playlist window.

CONFIGURATION FILES

/etc/audtty.conf
Global configuration file.
$HOME/.audtty.conf
Local configuration file, specific for each user. Can be used to override the global options.

The syntax of the configuration files are long options without the '--', one on each line.

Example:
numbers
title
length no-read-all

BUGS

The xmms remote controlling library provides no good way of detecting changes in the playlist, and therefore audtty might need to be told to reload the playlist if songs are moved. Do so by pressing L. If the length of the playlist changes, audtty will assume the playlist has changed and reload the entire playlist to make sure it is correct.

Probably lots more.

AUTHORS

See /usr/share/doc/audtty/copyright for the list of authors.

RESOURCES

The audtty website can be found at <http://audacious-media-player.org/Audtty>

This man page was originally written by Knut Auvor Grythe <[email protected]>. Updated by Chris Taylor <[email protected]>.