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XMMS(1)                        XMMS Manual Pages                       XMMS(1)

NAME

XMMS - an audio player for X.

SYNOPSIS

xmms [-h] [--help] [-n <session>] [--session=<session>] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-t] [--play-pause] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-S] [--toggle-shuffle] [-R] [--toggle-repeat] [-A] [--toggle-advance] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-q] [--quit] [-i <session id>] [--sm-client-id=<session id>] [-v] [--version] [filename]...

DESCRIPTION

XMMS is the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kinds of media files. By default XMMS can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, RIFF wav, most module formats and a few other formats. XMMS can be extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video formats.

OPTIONS

XMMS accepts the following options: -h, --help Show summary of options. -n, --session Select XMMS session (Default: 0). -r, --rew Skip backwards in playlist. -p, --play Start playing current playlist. -u, --pause Pause current song. -s, --stop Stop current song. -t, --play-pause Pause if playing, play otherwise. -f, --fwd Skip forward in playlist. -e, --enqueue Don't clear the playlist. -Q, --queue Add file(s) to playlist and queue -S, --toggle-shuffle[=SWITCH] Toggle the 'shuffle' flag. Optional argument SWITCH may be either 'on' or 'off' -R, --toggle-repeat[=SWITCH] Toggle the 'repeat' flag. Optional argument SWITCH may be either 'on' or 'off' -A, --toggle-advance[=SWITCH] Toggle the 'no playlist advance' flag. Optional argument SWITCH may be either 'on' or 'off' -m, --show-main-window Show the main window. -i, --sm-client-id Set session manager identification. -v, --version Print version number and exit. -q, --quit Close remote session.

SKINS

XMMS supports WinAmp style skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format. XMMS looks for skinfiles in ${prefix}/share/xmms/Skins, ~/.xmms/Skins, and locations specified by the SKINSDIR variable.

KEYBINDINGS

Global keybindings for XMMS: z Previous song x Play c Pause v Stop b Next song l Play file j Jump to file r Toggle Repeat s Toggle Shuffle Shift + l Play directory Control + l Play location Control + p Preferences dialog Control + v Visualization plugin dialog Control + r Time remaining Control + a Always on top Control + w Winshade mode Control + d Doublesize mode Control + e Easy move Control + j Jump to time Control + z Start of list Control + n No Playlist Advance Control + 3 File info dialog Control + Alt + w Toggle Equalizer winshade mode Shift + Control + w Playlist winshade mode Alt + w Hide/show mainwindow Alt + e Hide/show playlistwindow Alt + g Hide/show Equalizer Alt + s Skin selecting window Main window specific: Arrow key up Volume up 2% Arrow key down Volume down 2% Arrow key right Skip 5 seconds forward in song Arrow key left Skip 5 seconds back in song Playlist window specific: Arrow key up Up one step in playlist Arrow key down Down one step in playlist Delete Remove selected songs from playlist Control + Delete Keeps the selected tracks and removes the rest Q Queue/Dequeue the tracks selected Shift + Q Clear the queue list Alt + Q Queue manager Page Up Move one page up Page Down Move one page down Home First page in playlist End Last page in playlist Enter Play selected song Insert Add file dialog Shift + Insert Add directory dialog Alt + Insert Add url dialog Equalizer shade mode specific: Arrow key up Volume up 2% Arrow key down Volume down 2% Arrow key right Balance 4% to right Arrow key left Balance 4% to left

FILES

~/.xmms/config Users xmms configuration. ~/.xmms/xmms.m3u Default playlist usually loaded on startup. ~/.xmms/gtkrc Users set of xmms-specific GTK config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here. ~/.xmms/menurc Users set of keybindings. ~/.xmms/Skins, ${prefix}/share/xmms/Skins Default locations where XMMS should look for skinfiles. ~/.xmms/Plugins Location of user installed plugins.

ENVIRONMENT

SKINSDIR Colon separated list of paths where XMMS should look for skinfiles. 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.

OTHER INFO

The webpage for XMMS is at http://www.xmms.org. Here you can find info about XMMS, download the latest version, plugins, and skins.

SEE ALSO

wmxmms(1) Version 1.2.11 17 March 2004 XMMS(1)

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