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1 Audacious
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2 A relatively powerful media player
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4 Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Audacious Development Team (see AUTHORS)
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6 Based on:
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7 BMP - Beep Media Player (c)2002-2005
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9 Which was based on:
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10 XMMS - X Multimedia System (c)1997-2001
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12 A Cross platform Multimedia Player
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14 Peter Alm, Thomas Nilsson, Olle Hallnas, Håvard Kvålen
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17 NOTE: This document is hardly maintained. Please check the Users' Guide on
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18 the Audacious website.
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21 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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22 *****************
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24 1. Disclaimer
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25 2. Installation
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26 2.1 Basic Installation
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27 2.2 Border less Installation
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28 2.3 Skin Installation
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29 3. Documentation
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30 3.1 Controlling Audacious
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31 3.1.1 Key bindings
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32 3.2 Playlist Editor
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33 3.3 Equalizer
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35 3.5 Preferences
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36 3.5.1 Audio I/O Plugins
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37 3.5.2 Effect/General Plugins
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38 3.5.3 Visualization Plugins
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39 3.5.4 Options
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40 3.5.5 Fonts
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41 3.5.6 Title
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42 3.6 Plugins
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43 3.7 Playlist Manager
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44 4. Command Line Options
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45 5. Features
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46 5.1 Supported File formats
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47 5.2 Supported Features
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48 6. Obtaining Audacious
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49 7. Misc
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50 7.1 Shoutcast support
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51 7.2 Tips and tricks
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52 8. Bugs
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53 9. Contact Email
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58 1. Disclaimer
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59 -------------
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61 We are not liable for any damage caused by the use of this program.
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63 Audacious is NOT a port of Winamp (http://www.Winamp.com). Audacious is a fork of
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64 XMMS (http://xmms.org) and BMP (http://beep-media-player.org) which borrowed the
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65 Winamp GUI.
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68 2. Installation
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71 Audacious requires the following libraries and their development
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72 packages installed:
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75 (http://www.gtk.org/download/)
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77 GTK+ 2.4
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78 (http://www.gtk.org/download/)
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80 libglade >= 2.3.1
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81 (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.3/)
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83 If you compile Audacious from a fresh CVS checkout, you will also need
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84 the following tools:
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89 Note that these tools and libraries are bundled with major Linux
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90 distributions. Use the packages provided with them where possible. If
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91 those packages are not sufficiently new, you may need to search
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92 third-party repositories for them.
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95 2.1 Basic Installation
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98 cd audacious-VERSION
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103 This will put the binary in /usr/local/bin and plugins in
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106 If you want to use the automatic character detection system, then you should
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107 use --enable-chardet.
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110 2.2 Borderless Installation
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113 As far as I know most WM's accepts GTK decoration hints so it will
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114 not have borders. But some WM's can't handle this so you have to
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115 set in manually.
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117 AfterStep 1.0 ~/.steprc
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118 Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle, NoHandles
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119 Style "XMMS_Playlist" NoTitle, NoHandles
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122 AfterStep 1.4 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/database
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123 Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle, NoHandles
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124 Style "XMMS_Playlist" NoTitle, NoHandles
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128 Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle
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134 NoTitle {
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142 2.3 Skin Installation
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145 Audacious will create a directory called ~/.share/audacious/Skins. You can unarchive
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148 However, you don't need to as Audacious supports archived skins. Audacious
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152 Just copy the archive to one of the skin paths and Audacious will take care
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155 In order to support zipped skins you will need to have unzip. Unzip
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158 Audacious looks for skins in these directories (in listing order):
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160 <prefix>/share/audacious/Skins
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164 You can set the environment variable SKINSDIR to another location of
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165 your choice:
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167 For BASH:
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168 export SKINSDIR=/path/to/Skins:/more/paths/to/other/locations/of/Skins
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170 For C Shell:
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171 setenv SKINSDIR /path/to/Skins:/more/paths/to/other/locations/of/Skins
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173 You should note that skins designed specifically for Audacious are not compatible
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174 with Winamp. Likewise, we do not support Winamp "modern" skins as there is a lot of
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175 Winamp-specifics that would have to be reverse-engineered or emulated to properly
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181 This file or http://audacious-media-player.org
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184 3.1 Controlling Audacious
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187 When you start up Audacious, you will get a console very similar to that of
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188 Winamp.
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195 - The area in the upper left part displays the following:
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196 - Play state: Paused, Stopped, or Playing
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197 - Time elapsed in the current song or if you click on it, the reversed.
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198 - Spectrum analyzer of the sound being played. Right mouse click will
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199 bring up the Visualization menu. Left mouse button will change the
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200 analyzer to an oscilloscope and/or none.
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201
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202 - To the right of the Spectrum analyzer is the title of the file being played.
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203 This also contains the length of the song being played, as well as its
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204 position in the [unsorted] playlist. Right clicking in this window will bring
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205 up a new menu with some more options that are self explaining.
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207 - In the left part of the Spectrum analyzer you'll have letters (at least if
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208 you use the default skin) O A I D V. This is known as the
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209 "clutterbar'. Left-clicking on these will open up menus or perform the
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210 listed actions.
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211 O : Options menu
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212 A : Always on top
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213 I : File info box
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214 D : Double size mode
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215 V : Visualization menu
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216
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217 - Underneath the track title are the following static informational data:
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218 - bit rate in KBps (usually 128 or 112)
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219 - Sample Rate in KHz (usually 44)
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220 - Stereo or Mono channel mixing
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222 - Underneath the informational data are a few controls you can play with:
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223 - The first slider controls the volume
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224 - The second slider controls the balance between speakers
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225 - The button marked "EQ" loads up the graphic equalizer
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226 - The button marked "PL" loads up the playlist editor
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227 - The LARGE slide bar moves from left to right as the song plays. You can
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228 drag this to jump to another location in the current file.
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229
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230 - On the bottom of the console are the standard buttons you would see on a CD
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231 player: Previous track, Play, Pause, Stop, Next track, eject, shuffle
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232 and repeat.
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233
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234 - The eject button doesn't REALLY eject, of course. :) It opens up the
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235 file requester. The File Requester builds a playlist for the current
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237 load all mp3s in a directory.
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238
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239 - The shuffle button randomizes the sequence of the playlist.
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241 - The repeat button when enabled makes the playlist loop when it reaches the
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242 end of the playlist.
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245 3.1.1 Key bindings
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247
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248 Global: (Main, Equalizer and Playlist window)
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249
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250 z = Previous song
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251 x = Play
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252 c = Pause
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253 v = Stop
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254 b = Next song
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255 l = Play file (brings up the Load file(s) dialog)
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256 j = Jump to file (in the existing playlist)
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257 r = Toggle Repeat
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258 s = Toggle Shuffle
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259
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260 Control + h = Play location (url)
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261 Control + p = Preferences dialog
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262 Control + r = Time remaining
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263 Control + o = Always on top
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264 Control + w = Winshade mode
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265 Control + j = Jump to time
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266 Control + z = Start of list
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267 Control + n = No Playlist Advance
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268 Control + 3 = File info dialog
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269
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270 Control + Alt + w = Toggle Equalizer winshade mode
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271 Shift + Control + w = Toggle Playlist winshade mode
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272
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273 Alt + e = Toggle playlist window
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274 Alt + g = Toggle equalizer window
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275
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276 Main window:
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277
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278 Arrow key up = Volume up 2%
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279 Arrow key down = Volume down 2%
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280 Arrow key right = Skip 5 seconds forward in song
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281 Arrow key left = Skip 5 seconds back in song
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282
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283 Playlist window:
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284
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285 Arrow key up = up one step in playlist
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286 Arrow key down = Down one step in playlist
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287
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288 Delete = Remove selected songs from playlist
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289 Page Up = Move one page up
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290 Page Down = Move one page down
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291 Home = Go to the first song
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292 End = Go to the last song
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293 Enter = Play selected song
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294 Insert = Add file dialog
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295 Shift + Insert = Add directory dialog
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296 Alt + Insert = Add url dialog
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297
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298 Equalizer shade mode:
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299
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300 Arrow key up = Volume up 2%
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301 Arrow key down = Volume down 2%
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302 Arrow key right = Balance 4% to right
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303 Arrow key left = Balance 4% to left
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306 3.2 Playlist editor
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309 To access the Playlist editor, select the button labeled "PL" on the right
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312 This will bring up the actual playlist window, here you'll find 5 buttons.
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313 All of these buttons can be held down to bring up an extra menu.
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314 From left to right:
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315
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316 file + : will add a file to current playlist, held down mode you'll have
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317 2 extra options
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318 dir : will let you pick a directory (recursive)
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319 url : will let you add an url for streaming
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320
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321 file - : will delete the highlighted file, held down mode you'll have 3
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322 more options
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323 crop : delete all files except the highlighted in the list
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324 all : delete all files in the list
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325 misc : *** NOT FUNCTIONAL ***
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326
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327 sel all : select all files in current playlist, held down mode you'll have
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328 2 extra options
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329 sel zero : select none
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330 inv sel : invert you selection
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331
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332 misc opts : held down you'll have 2 extra options
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333 fileinfo : opens the file info dialog.
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334 sort : release button on this will bring up another menu with sort options
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335
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336 load list : will let you pick a playlist to load, held down you'll have
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337 2 extra options
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338 save : will let you save your playlist
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339 new : will empty the playlist and let you create a new playlist
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340
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341 If you want to select/deselect files in the filrequester/playlist editor use
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342 CTRL for files and SHIFT key for blocks of files. You can also browse the PL
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343 using the cursor keys and enter to select song. Pressing the delete button will
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344 remove the song from the playlist. If your mouse is equipped with a mouse
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345 wheel, you can use this to scroll up and down.
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347 3.3. Equalizer
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350 To access the Equalizer, select the button labeled "EQ" on the right
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353 That will bring up the Equalizer window. It looks like an equalizer on a stereo
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354 and behaves like one as well. Press the button labeled ON to enable the use of
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355 the equalizer, once you turned it on you use it as a normal equalizer.
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357 EQ presets will be saved in ~/.audacious/config when you close Audacious. You can also
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363 1: Look for a preset file in the directory of the file we are about to play.
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364 2: Look for a directory preset file in the same directory.
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365 3: Look for a preset saved with the "auto-load" feature.
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366 4: Finally, try to load the "default" preset.
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368 The 'preset' button will open up a menu with the following options:
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370 Load
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371 Preset : Will open a window with all available presets.
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372 Auto-load preset : Will open a window with all available auto-load
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373 presets.
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374 Default : Will load the default preset.
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375 Zero : Will reset the equalizer to zero.
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376 From file : Will load from a .preset file
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377 From Winamp EQF file : Will load from a Winamp equalizer file. If you
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378 choose a library file only the first entry will
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379 be loaded.
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383 the entries to the Preset window.
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384 Save
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385 Preset : Let you name the current preset and save it.
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386 Auto-load preset : Saves the current settings as a preset for the song
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387 currently playing.
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388 Default : Saves the default value for the equalizer.
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389 From file : Saves the current settings in a preset file.
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391 Winamp.
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392 Delete
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393 Preset : Let you delete a preset from the list.
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394 Auto-load preset : Let you delete a auto-load preset from the list.
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395
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396 Configure Equalizer : Change the default names of directory based
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397 preset files.
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398
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399 3.4. Menu
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400 ---------
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401
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403 hand side of the visual window described in sections 3.1 If you click the right
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404 mouse button in the main window, the menus will also pop up (same as clicking
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405 the button on the top left corner).
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406
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407 3.5. Preferences
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408 ----------------
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409
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410 Use the menu to open Options / Preferences or press CTRL-P to bring the
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411 preferences dialog up.
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412
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413 3.5.1. Appearance
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414 -----------------
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415
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416 Skins
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417 In the skinlist you can choose a skin. How to install skins is described above.
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418 Click on a skin in the list to change to it.
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419
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420 Fonts
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421 You can set the font in the main window by setting the 'Player' font. You can
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422 change the playlist font by setting the 'Playlist' font.
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423
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424 Miscellaneous
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425 Show track numbers in playlist - Enable/disable displaying of track numbers in
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426 the playlist.
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427 Use custom cursors - Enable/disable custom cursors set by the skin.
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428
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429
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430 3.5.2. Mouse
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431 ------------
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432
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433 Mouse wheel
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435
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436 3.5.3. Playlist
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437 ---------------
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438
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439 Filename
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440 Convert underscores to blanks - Converts '_' (underscores) to ' ' in the
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441 playlist.
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442 Convert %20 to blanks - Converts '%20' to ' ' in the
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443 playlist.
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444
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445 Metadata
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446 Load metadata from playlists and files - Loads metadata from files and
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447 playlists (e.g. ID3 tags).
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448
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449 Playback
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450 Don't advance in playlist - Don't advance to the next song in the playlist when
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451 the current song ends.
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452 Pause between songs - Set the time (in secons) to pause on songchange
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453
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454 Song display
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455 Title format - Choose the format to display the song names in the playlist.
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456 Custom string - When the above option is set to 'Custom' insert a string of
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457 substitutes here.
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458
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459 3.5.6. Plugins
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461
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462 Enable/disable and configure plugins in this section.
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463
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464 Choose a tab to list one of the types of plugins:
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465 - Decoders (filetype/device support)
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466 - General (general plugins)
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467 - Visualization (visualization plugins)
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468 - Effects (effect plugins)
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469
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470 3.5.7. Audio
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471 ------------
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472
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473 The settings in this section are related to the audio system.
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474
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475
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476 3.6 Plugins
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477 -----------
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478
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479 Plugins are what makes Audacious work, by moving most of the code out of
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480 Audacious and into a plugin architecture it's possible to change almost
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481 everything in Audacious. There are today 8 different types of plugins.
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482
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483 However to promote maximum flexibility of the platform itself, we no longer
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484 include any plugins with the Audacious core.
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485
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486 You will need to download and install our plugin pack for Audacious if you
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487 expect it to do anything useful (or install someone else's plugin pack if one
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488 should exist).
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489
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490 Additionally, you can find a list of plugins at:
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491 http://audacious-media-player.org/Plugins
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492
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493 You should note that third-party plugins are not supported by the Audacious
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494 development team, and that you should report any issues with them on our forums,
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495 but NEVER on our bugtracker.
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496
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497 3.7 Playlist Manager
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498 --------------------
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499
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500 Audacious supports multiple playlists (think foobar2000). For the manipulation of
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501 playlists, we have included a playlist manager tool.
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502
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503 It is accessible from the Playlist menu.
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504
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505
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506 4. Command Line Options
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508
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509 audacious --help will produce:
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510
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511 Usage: audacious [options] [files] ...
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512
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513 Options:
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514 --------
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515
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516 -h, --help Display this text and exit.
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517 -n, --session Select Audacious/XMMS session (Default: 0)
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518 -r, --rew Skip backwards in playlist
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519 -p, --play Start playing current playlist
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520 -u, --pause Pause current song
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521 -s, --stop Stop current song
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522 -t, --play-pause Pause if playing, play otherwise
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523 -f, --fwd Skip forward in playlist
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524 -e, --enqueue Don't clear the playlist
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525 -m, --show-main-window Show the main window
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526 -v, --version Print version number and exit.
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527 -H, --headless Headless operation
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528 -E, --enqueue-to-temp Enqueues to a temporary playlist.
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530 You can specify files on the command line, e.g:
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531
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532 audacious file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.mp3
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533 audacious *.mp3
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534 audacious playlist.m3u playlist.pls playlist.xspf
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535
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536 If you do this while Audacious is running, the current playlist
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537 will be cleared and the files/playlist specified on the command
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538 line will be used instead.
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539
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540 To keep the current playlist intact use the -E option, which will
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541 create a new temporary playlist with the requested media, or the
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542 -e option, which will append to your currently selected playlist.
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544
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545 5. Features
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546 -----------
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547
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548 5.1 Supported Features
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550
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551 Seeking in files
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552 Volume/Balance
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553 Shuffle play
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554 Repeat play
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555 Playlist editor
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556 Spectrum Analyzer
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557 One Line mode al'a WinShade in Winamp
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558 Oscilloscope
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559 Timer Elapsed/Timer Remaining
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560 Plug-in system Output/Input/Effect/General/Visualization
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561 Equalizer
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562 Double Size option
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563 Winamp 2.0 skin support (can use wsz files)
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564 GTK Requesters (with theme support)
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565 Streaming/Shoutcast(1.0/1.1)/Icecast support
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566 Auto remove borders if the WM has support for it
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567 Fast jump in playlist
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568 Scroll wheel support
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569 Saves HTTP streams to HD
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570 HTTP authentication
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571 Plays MPEG layer 1/2/3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis
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572 Compiles and works on other Unixes
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573 Proxy authentication support
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576 6. Obtaining Audacious
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579 Currently, we only provide source tarballs at:
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583 The Subversion snapshots listed are not regularly updated. We
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584 encourage you to download Audacious straight from our SVN repository:
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586 svn co http://svn.atheme.org/audacious/trunk audacious-devel
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588
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589 6.1 Obtaining Skins
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592 You can find Audacious/XMMS skins made by Audacious/XMMS users at:
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594 http://www.xmms.org/skins.html
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595 http://themes.org/skins/xmms
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597 You can find more places on our website, at:
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599 http://audacious-media-player.org/Skins
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602 7. Misc
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605 7.1. Tips and Tricks
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608 If you have a windows partition with Winamp installed, a good idea would be to
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609 set the SKINSDIR variable to that dir.
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611 Audacious features some command line options like next/previous songs, those
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612 things can be binded to a key. I use AfterStep and the useless window keys
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613 for this. Here is an example from my .steprc:
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615 Key Meta_R A N Exec "Audacious" audacious -r
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616 Key Menu A N Exec "Audacious" audacious -f
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618 If you want all your mp3's in one playlist an easy way is:
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619 locate .mp3 > /path/to/playlistname
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620
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621 (considering you have a fairly recent updatedb, don't blame us if locate don't
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622 find the file you downloaded 3 minutes ago)
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625 8. Bugs
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628 Audacious is under heavy development and as such, has quite a number of
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629 bugs. Our bug tracker page is maintained at:
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633 It will continue to have bugs as we fix and introduce new ones through
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634 rewriting and enhancement. Help us along by reporting new bugs, and
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635 verifying existing ones.
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641 Project Admins:
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643 William Pitcock email: nenolod at sacredspiral.co.uk
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644 Tony Vroon email: chainsaw at gentoo.org
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646 Alternatively, you can try the mailing list at audacious@atheme.org.
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647 Subscription information is available at:
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649 http://mail.atheme.org/mailman/listinfo/audacious
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651 If a mailing list is not interesting to you, you can try our forums:
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653 http://boards.nenolod.net
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655 There is also an IRC channel at irc.atheme.org #audacious. You should
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656 note that this IRC presence is mainly for internal project use, but
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657 that doesn't stop 50-someodd people from visiting there.