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 /usr/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 + 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
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, /usr/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),