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] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-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.
- -m, --show-main-window
- Show the main window.
- -v, --version
- Print version number and exit.
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 ${pre
fix}/share/xmms/Skins, ~/.xmms/Skins, and locations speci
fied 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
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 decom
- pression. 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.