GJay(1)
NAME
gjay - organizes music collections
SYNOPSIS
gjay [ -dvhpux ] [ --help ] [ -c color ] [ -l length ] [ -f filename ]
DESCRIPTION
gjay (Gtk+ DJ) analyzes and categorizes collections of MP3, OGG, FLAC
and WAV music files so that interesting playlists can be generated.
Each song is assigned characteristics (BPM and spectrum) and userassigned attributes (rating and color). "Color" is just a handy way for
a user to describe a song.
GJay has both a user-visible interface and a background processing component. The user-visible component is used to select the base music
directory, set song attributes, and generate playlists. The background
component (the daemon) analyzes songs.
Song analysis can take a while. After the base music directory has been
set and the daemon has started its analysis, it is possible to quit the
user interface portion of the program and allow the daemon to continue
in the background. GJay can be started in daemon mode by passing -d, in
which case it runs until song analysis is complete. It's OK to kill or
ctrl+c to quit a running daemon; it saves data as it goes along.
You can create playlists from within the GJay or from the command line.
If you generate a playlist from the command line, the previous session's playlist preferences for the importance of various attributes
will be used.
OPTIONS
-d Run just the analysis daemon
-v Increase output verbosity. -vv will increase it even more.
- -h, --help
- Display help, which is like this only less so
- -p Generate a playlist
PLAYLIST OPTIONS
- -f filename
- Start the playlist at a particular file.
- -c color
- Start the playlist at a particular color. color may be a hex value 0xRRGGBB or a named color. Run gjay -c to see a list of colors.
- -l length
- Set the playlist length, in minutes
- -u Use the M3U playlist format, which includes title, artist, and
- length information
- -x Play the generated playlist in mp3 player
OTHER OPTIONS
- --analyze-standalone filename
- Print the results of analyzing a file to stdout. Does not consult existing file data.
AUTHOR
Written by Chuck Groom <cgroom@users.sourceforge.net> and Craig Small
<csmall@enc.com.au>
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (c) 2002-2003 by Chuck Groom and 2010 Craig Small. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.