XMMS - an audio player for X.

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]...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

~/.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.

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.

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

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