Ubuntu Manpage: minirok - a small music player written in Python

NAME

       minirok - a small music player written in Python

SYNOPSIS

       minirok [options] [file]...

DESCRIPTION

Minirok is a small music player written in Python for the K Desktop Environment. To start
it, select it from the applications menu, or type minirok in a terminal.

To reproduce music, first type in the combo box at the left the directory where music is
located, and press enter, or select "Open directory" from the File menu. Available audio
files will be shown in a tree structure. Locate the files you want to play, and use drag
and drop to append them to the playlist in the right. You can also press double click in a
file or a folder to append it to the existing playlist.

Both the tree view and the playlist have search line widgets above them. Typing text in
them will reduce the shown items to those matching the introduced words. If you press
enter after a search in the tree view completes, the visible items will be appended to the
playlist. If you press enter in the playlist search line, the first visible track will be
played.

You can modify the order in which the tracks are played by enqueueing them in a different
order. For this, press right button click on a track, and select "Enqueue track". Or press
Control + RightButtonClick on the track to enqueue.

Similarly, you can signal that playing should stop after a certain track. To do this,
select "Stop playing after this track" in the contextual menu as above, or press Control +
MiddleButtonClick.

If you make changes to the filesystem, you can quickly refresh the tree view by clicking
on the refresh button next to the combo box with the directory name. A key can be also
configurated to do this, F5 by default.

DBUS INTERFACE

       Minirok offers a DBus interface to control the player  and  various  other  bits.  At  the
       moment a single object /Player is provided, under the org.kde.minirok service. To invoke a
       DBus method, run from a terminal qdbus org.kde.minirok /Player  methodName.   dbus-send(1)
       should also work, but then you'll need to fully qualify the method name.

       Here's a list of available methods:

           Play
           Pause
           PlayPause
           Stop
           Next
           Previous
           NowPlaying
           AppendToPlaylist
           StopAfterCurrent

       See  the README.Usage file for details. Note that this interface will only be available if
       the required dependencies are installed. See the README file a list of these.

LAST.FM

       Minirok can submit played tracks to Last.fm, or any other Last.fm-compatible service (such
       as  Libre.fm).  You  will  just  need  to  configure  your  username  and  password in the
       preferences dialog.  Starting with Minirok 2.1, no external software is needed any more.

OPTIONS

       -a, --append
              Try to append the files given as arguments to an existing Minirok  instance  first.
              If  that  fails, start a new Minirok instance as usual. (This is done via DBus, see
              the README file for required dependencies.)

       Minirok also accepts many other options for using the Qt and KDE  libraries.  Run  minirok
       --help-all for a comprehensive list.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please  report  bug  to  the  Debian  Bug  Tracking  System.  See the README.Bugs file for
       instructions.

       A list of reported issues is kept at http://bugs.debian.org/minirok.

COPYRIGHT

       Minirok is Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Adeodato Simó, and licensed under the terms of the  MIT
       license.