sayonara(1)

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version 1.12.0 · 11 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 sayonara(1) — the Sayonara Player page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about sayonara, section 1 of the manual. it's an audio player, it's advanced, it's lightweight, and it's lowkey about to become your whole personality. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

sayonara — advanced but lightweight audio player and library manager

like. it plays your music AND it keeps your library cute and organized. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sayonara [filelist] [--multi-instances]

yeah that's it. hand it some files, or don't, it's flexible. 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea: Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux, written in C++ and supported by the Qt framework. it uses Gstreamer as its audio backend. 🎧✨

small. clear. fast. the way that it just works? obsessed. no cap.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one option. one. and honestly? it's iconic for it.

  • --multi-instances — allows starting more than one instance of sayonara. yes bestie, you can have several of them open at once. go feral. 🫶

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

these are your little environment variable levers. every single one, coming right up:

  • SAYONARA_LIB_DIR — specify a different directory where to search for library plugins. the default is INSTALL_PREFIX/lib(32|64)?/sayonara, e.g. /usr/lib/sayonara or /usr/local/lib64/sayonara. 💅
  • SAYONARA_SHARE_DIR — specify a different directory where to search for the translations directory. the default is INSTALL_PREFIX/share/sayonara, e.g. /usr/share/sayonara. 🌸
  • SAYONARA_ENGINE_BROADCAST — by specifying OFF as value, the pipeline will be created without the broadcasting part. 🎙️
  • SAYONARA_ENGINE_PITCH — by specifying OFF as value, the pipeline will be created without speed/pitch functionality. 🐢➡️🐇
  • SAYONARA_ENGINE_STREAM_RECORDER — by specifying OFF as value, the pipeline will be created without stream recording functionality. 🔴
  • SAYONARA_ENGINE_VISUALIZER — by specifying OFF as value, the pipeline will be created without level/spectrum functionality. 📊
not me reminding you that the magic value here is literally OFF for all four of the engine ones. lowercase off? don't be messy, bestie, use OFF. 😭

🐛 BUGS 🐛

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, please file in new bug reports at:

https://gitlab.com/luciocarreras/sayonara-player

they want to hear from you, i promise. reporting bugs is self care. 🫶

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Michael Lugmair (sayonara-player@posteo.org)

thank you for your service, king. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie. version 1.12.0-stable1, dated 07 August 2026, from the Sayonara Player manual. now go play some music. 🎶✨💅

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