XMMS

XMMS

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SKINS KEYBINDINGS FILES ENVIRONMENT OTHER INFO SEE ALSO

NAME

XMMS - an audio player for X.

SYNOPSIS

xmms [-h? [--help? [-n ''''? [--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 ${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 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), gnomexmms(1)