NAME

       audacious - an advanced audio player.

SYNOPSIS

       audacious [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Audacious  is  a  free  advanced  audio  player  for  Linux and many other UNIX-compatible
       systems. It focuses on low resource usage, high audio quality,  and  support  for  a  wide
       range  of  audio  formats. It was originally based on Beep Media Player, which was in turn
       based on XMMS.

OPTIONS

       Getting help:

       -h, --help
              Show a brief list of options.

       Opening files:

       -e, --enqueue
              Add the files on the command  line  to  the  current  playlist  but  do  not  start
              playback.

       -E, --enqueue-to-temp
              Add the files on the command line to a temporary playlist and start playback.

       Controlling playback:

       -p, --play
              If currently playing, go to the beginning of the song; otherwise, begin playing.

       -u, --pause
              If currently playing, pause; if paused, resume playing.

       -t, --play-pause
              If currently playing, pause; otherwise, begin playing.

       -s, --stop
              Stop playing and go to the beginning of the song.

       -r, --rew
              Go to the previous song in the playlist.

       -f, --fwd
              Go to the next song in the playlist.

       Miscellaneous:

       -m, --show-main-window
              Show the Audacious window if it is hidden and bring it to the top.

       -j, --show-jump-box
              Show the Jump to Song window.

       -H, --headless
              Start in command-line mode; i.e., without any graphical user interface.

       -q, --quit-after-play
              Exit as soon as playback stops, or immediately if there is nothing to play.

       -v, --version
              Print version information and exit.

       -V, --verbose
              Print debugging output while running (may be used twice).

KEYBINDINGS

       Control + Return        Play
       Space, Control + ,      Pause
       Control + .             Stop
       Alt + Up                Previous song
       Alt + Down              Next song
       Right arrow             Seek forward (by default 5 seconds)
       Left arrow              Seek backward (by default 5 seconds)
       Escape                  Scroll to current song
       Control + a             Select all songs in playlist
       Shift + Control + a     Cancel selection
       Control + + (plus)      Increase volume 5 percent
       Control + - (minus)     Decrease volume 5 percent
       Control + s             Toggle shuffle
       Control + r             Toggle repeat
       Control + n             Toggle advancing in playlist
       Control + m             Toggle stopping after current song
       Control + e             Display Equalizer
       Control + y             Display Search Tool
       Control + i             Display Song Information dialog
       Control + k             Display Jump to Time dialog
       Control + j             Display Jump to Song dialog
       Control + p             Display Playlist Manager dialog
       Control + u             Display Queue Manager dialog
       Control + o             Display Open Files dialog
       Shift + Control + o     Display Add Files dialog
       Control + l             Display Open URL dialog
       Shift + Control + l     Display Add URL dialog

FILES

       ~/.config/audacious/config
              User's Audacious configuration.

       ~/.config/audacious/playlists/1000.audpl
              Default playlist usually loaded on startup.

       ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
              Default location(s) where Audacious should look for skin files.

ENVIRONMENT

       SKINSDIR    Colon separated list of paths where Audacious should look for skin files.

       TARCMD      Tar  command  supporting GNU tar style decompression.  Used for unpacking gzip
                   and bzip2 compressed skins.  Default is tar.

       UNZIPCMD    Command for decompressing zip files (skins).  Default is unzip.

SEE ALSO

       audtool(1)

WEBSITE

       http://audacious-media-player.org