NAME

       quodlibet - audio library manager and player

SYNOPSIS

       quodlibet [ --print-playing | control ]
       exfalso [ directory ]

DESCRIPTION

       Quod  Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your
       audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio  feeds.  It  has  extremely
       flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities.

       This  manual  page  is  only  a  short reference for Quod Libet. Complete documentation is
       available at https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/index.html.

OPTIONS

       --add-location=<location>
              Add a file or directory to the library

       --debug
              Print debugging information

       --enqueue=<filename|query>
              Enqueue a filename or query results

       --enqueue-files=<filename[,filename..]>
              Enqueue comma-separated files

       --filter <tag=value>
              Filter on a tag value

       --focus
              Focus the running player

       --force-previous
              Jump to previous song

       --help Display brief usage information

       --hide-window
              Hide main window

       --list-browsers
              List available browsers

       --next Jump to next song

       --no-plugins
              Start without plugins

       --open-browser=BrowserName
              Open a new browser

       --pause
              Pause playback

       --play Start playback

       --play-file=filename
              Play a file

       --play-pause
              Toggle play/pause mode

       --previous
              Jump to previous song if near the beginning, otherwise restart

       --print-playing
              Print out information about the currently playing song. You may provide in a string
              like the kind described in the RENAMING FILES section below.

       --print-playlist
              Print the current playlist

       --print-query=<query>
              Print filenames of results of query

       --print-query-text
              Print the active text query

       --print-queue
              Print the contents of the queue

       --query=search-string
              Search your audio library

       --queue=<on|off|t>
              Show or hide the queue

       --quit Exit Quod Libet

       --random=tag
              Filter on a random value

       --rating=<[+|-]0.0..1.0>
              Set rating of playing song

       --rating-down
              Decrease rating of playing song by one star

       --rating-up
              Increase rating of playing song by one star

       --refresh
              Refresh and rescan library

       --repeat=<off|on|t>
              Turn repeat off, on, or toggle

       --repeat-type=<current|all|one|off>
              Repeat  the  currently playing song, the current list, stop after one song, or turn
              repeat off

       --run  Start Quod Libet if it isn't running

       --seek=<[+|-][HH:]MM:SS>
              Seek within the playing song

       --set-browser=BrowserName
              Set the current browser

       --show-window
              Show main window

       --shuffle=<off|on|t>
              Turn shuffle off, on, or toggle

       --shuffle-type=<random|weighted|off>
              Set the shuffle type to be random, to prefer higher rated songs,  or  turn  shuffle
              off

       --start-hidden
              Don't show any windows on start

       --start-playing
              Begin playing immediately

       --status
              Print playing status

       --stop Stop playback

       --stop-after=<0|1|t>
              Stop after the playing song

       --toggle-window
              Toggle main window visibility

       --unfilter
              Remove active browser filters

       --unqueue=<filename|query>
              Unqueue a file or query

       --version
              Display version and copyright

       --volume=<[+|-]0..100>
              Set the volume

       --volume-down
              Turn down the volume

       --volume-up
              Turn up the volume

ALBUM COVERS

       Album  covers  should  be  put  in the same directory as the songs they apply to, and have
       "folder", "front", or "cover" in their filenames. If you want to store multiple albums  in
       the  same directory but keep distinct cover images, the name of the appropriate image file
       must contain the labelid tag value, e.g. COCX-32760 cover.jpg.

TIED TAGS

       Many places in Quod Libet allow you to use "tied tags". Tied tags are two tag names joined
       together  with  a  "~"  like  "title~version" or "album~part".  Tied tags result in "nice"
       displays even when one of the tags is missing; for example, "title~version" will result in
       Title  - Version when a version tag is present, but only Title when one isn't. You can tie
       any number of tags together.

SEARCH SYNTAX

       All of Quod  Libet's search boxes support advanced searches of the following forms:

       tag = value
       tag = !value
       tag = "value"
       tag = /value/
       tag = &(value1, value2)
       tag = |(value1, value2)
       !tag = value
       |(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2)
       &(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2)
       #(numerictag < value)
       #(numerictag = value)
       #(numerictag > value)

       The 'c' postfix on strings  or  regular  expressions  makes  the   search  case-sensitive.
       Numeric  values  may be given as integers, floating-point numbers, MM:SS format, or simple
       English, e.g. "3 days", "2 hours".

       See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/searching.html.

       All internal tags begin with a ~ character. Non-numeric internal  tags  are  ~base‐  name,
       ~dirname,  ~filename,  ~format,  ~length, ~people, and ~rating.  Numeric internal tags are
       ~#added, ~#bitrate, ~#disc, ~#lastplayed, ~#laststarted, ~#length,  ~#mtime,  ~#playcount,
       ~#skipcount, and ~#track.

       See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/tags/internal_tags.html.

RENAMING FILES

       Quod  Libet  allows you to rename files based on their tags. In some cases you may wish to
       alter the filename depending on whether some tags are present or missing, in  addition  to
       their values. A common pattern might be

       <tracknumber>. <title~version>

       You can use a '|' to only text when a tag is present:

       <tracknumber|<tracknumber>. ><title~version>

       You can also specify literal text to use if the tag is missing by adding another '|':

       <album|<album>|No Album> - <title>

       See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/renaming_files.html.

AUDIO BACKENDS

       Quod  Libet  uses  GStreamer  for  audio  playback.  It tries to read your GConf GStreamer
       configuration, but if that fails it falls back to osssink. You  can  change  the  pipeline
       option  in  ~/.quodlibet/config  to use a different sink, or pass options to the sink. For
       example, you might use esdsink or alsasink device=hw:1.

       See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/playback/backends.html.

FILES

       ~/.quodlibet/songs
              A pickled Python dict of cached metadata. Deleting this file will remove all  songs
              from your library.

       ~/.quodlibet/config
              Quod Libet's configuration file. This file is overwritten when Quod Libet exits.

       ~/.quodlibet/current
              A "key=value" file containing information about the currently playing song.

       ~/.quodlibet/control
              A  FIFO  connected  to  the most-recently-started instance of the program.  --next,
              --previous, etc., use this to control the player.

       ~/.quodlibet/plugins/
              Put plugins here.

       ~/.quodlibet/browsers/
              Put custom library browsers here.

       See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/interacting.html.

BUGS

       See https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues for a list of all  currently  open  bugs
       and feature requests.

AUTHORS

       Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Quod Libet.

SEE ALSO

       https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/,
       https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/faq.html,
       regex(7), gst-launch(1)

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