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 + RightBut‐
tonClick on the track to enqueue.

Similarly, you can signal that playing should stop after a certain track. To do this, select "Stop play‐
ing 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 ob‐
       ject /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.