AUDACIOUS(1)

🎧 AUDACIOUS(1) — the manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the audacious manual page. It’s giving advanced audio player energy, and I’m here to walk you through every single detail without making it boring. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

audacious — an advanced audio player.

🌸 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. The lore is that 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. slay.
• -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. no GUI, just vibes.
• -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 👑

Here’s the keybinding cheat sheet, exactly as written — memorise it or keep it open, iykyk: 💫

• 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.

🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.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, 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.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Go off and read audtool(1) too, bestie. 🫶

🌐 WEBSITE 🌐

https://audacious-media-player.org

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Bye bestie — this was AUDACIOUS(1), Version 4.6.2, May 2016. 💖✨