-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-n, --session

Select Audacious/BMP/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.

-H, --headless

Starts Audacious in headless mode.

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 + wPlaylist 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

When using Audacious in headless mode, you will need a client. Clients compatible with Audacious are listed on the Audacious website.

~/.audacious/config

User's Audacious configuration.

~/.audacious/playlist.m3u

Default playlist usually loaded on startup.

~/.audacious/gtkrc

User's set of Audacious-specific GTK config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.

~/.audacious/menurc

User's set of keybindings.

~/.audacious/Skins, /usr/share/audacious/Skins

Default location(s) where Audacious should look for skinfiles.

~/.audacious/Plugins

Location of user-installed plugins.

SKINSDIR

Colon separated list of paths where Audacious 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.