SONATA(1)

📦 version 1.7.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ SONATA ✨

okay bestie, welcome to sonata — she lives in the General Commands Manual section and she is, and I cannot stress this enough, a whole vibe. 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

sonata — a GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon 🎧✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sonata [OPTION]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like. Sonata is an elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). That's it, that's the pitch, and honestly? she ate. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — shows you this help and then dips. bye! 👋
  • -p, --popup — pops up a song notification (this one needs D-Bus, no cap)
  • -t, --toggle — toggles whether the app is minimized to tray or visible (also needs D-Bus, iykyk)
  • -v, --version — shows version info and exits, periodt
  • --hidden — starts the app hidden (requires systray)
  • --visible — starts the app visible (requires systray)
  • --profile=[NUM] — starts with profile [NUM] 🫶

and then we have the actual commands, the main character moments:

  • play — plays the song in the playlist 🎵
  • pause — pauses the currently playing song ⏸️
  • stop — stops the currently playing song ⏹️
  • next — plays the next song in the playlist ⏭️
  • prev — plays the previous song in the playlist ⏮️
  • pp — toggles play/pause; and if it's stopped, it plays 💫
  • repeat — toggles repeat mode 🔁
  • random — toggles random mode 🔀
  • info — displays the current song info, so you always know what's playing 🎤
  • status — displays the MPD status 📊
ngl bestie, the -p and -t ones are literally nothing without D-Bus, and --hidden / --visible are nothing without systray. don't come for me, that's just what the page says. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sonata was written by Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com>. 🫶

This manual page is currently maintained by Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com>. It was originally written by Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this version dropped on October 20, 2006, and it belongs to the SONATA(1) manual — so like, og icon behavior fr fr. go stream something. 💜🦋✨

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