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| author | Tomasz Mon <desowin@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:34:48 +0200 |
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Audacious A relatively powerful media player Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Audacious Development Team (see AUTHORS) Based on: BMP - Beep Media Player (c)2002-2005 Which was based on: XMMS - X Multimedia System (c)1997-2001 A Cross platform Multimedia Player Peter Alm, Thomas Nilsson, Olle Hallnas, Håvard Kvålen NOTE: This document is hardly maintained. Please check the Users' Guide on the Audacious website. TABLE OF CONTENTS ***************** 1. Disclaimer 2. Installation 2.1 Basic Installation 2.2 Border less Installation 2.3 Skin Installation 3. Documentation 3.1 Controlling Audacious 3.1.1 Key bindings 3.2 Playlist Editor 3.3 Equalizer 3.4 Menu 3.5 Preferences 3.5.1 Audio I/O Plugins 3.5.2 Effect/General Plugins 3.5.3 Visualization Plugins 3.5.4 Options 3.5.5 Fonts 3.5.6 Title 3.6 Plugins 3.7 Playlist Manager 4. Command Line Options 5. Features 5.1 Supported Features 6. Obtaining Audacious 7. Misc 7.1 Shoutcast support 7.2 Tips and tricks 8. Bugs 9. Contact Email 1. Disclaimer ------------- We are not liable for any damage caused by the use of this program. Audacious is NOT a port of Winamp (http://www.Winamp.com). Audacious is a fork of XMMS (http://xmms.org) and BMP (http://beep-media-player.org) which borrowed the Winamp GUI. 2. Installation --------------- Audacious requires the following libraries and their development packages installed: Glib 2.6 (http://www.gtk.org/download/) GTK+ 2.6 (http://www.gtk.org/download/) libglade >= 2.4 (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.4/) mcs >= 0.1 (http://sacredspiral.co.uk/~nenolod/mcs) If you compile Audacious from a fresh CVS checkout, you will also need the following tools: automake >= 1.9 autoconf >= 2.59 Note that these tools and libraries are bundled with major Linux distributions. Use the packages provided with them where possible. If those packages are not sufficiently new, you may need to search third-party repositories for them. 2.1 Basic Installation ---------------------- cd audacious-VERSION ./configure make make install This will put the binary in /usr/local/bin and plugins in /usr/local/lib/audacious/ If you want to use the automatic character detection system, then you should use --enable-chardet. 2.2 Borderless Installation --------------------------- As far as I know most WM's accepts GTK decoration hints so it will not have borders. But some WM's can't handle this so you have to set in manually. AfterStep 1.0 ~/.steprc Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle, NoHandles Style "XMMS_Playlist" NoTitle, NoHandles Style "XMMS_Equalizer" NoTitle, NoHandles AfterStep 1.4 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/database Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle, NoHandles Style "XMMS_Playlist" NoTitle, NoHandles Style "XMMS_Equalizer" NoTitle, NoHandles Fvwm's ~/.fvwm95rc Style "XMMS_Player" NoTitle Style "XMMS_Playlist" NoTitle Style "XMMS_Equalizer" NoTitle CTWM's ~/.ctwmrc NoTitle and NoBorder sections: NoTitle { "xmms" } NoBorder { "xmms" } 2.3 Skin Installation --------------------- Audacious will create a directory called ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins. You can unarchive the skins the same way as you do for Winamp. However, you don't need to as Audacious supports archived skins. Audacious currently reads the following formats: zip, wsz, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 Just copy the archive to one of the skin paths and Audacious will take care of the rest. In order to support zipped skins you will need to have unzip. Unzip is bundled with most Linux distributions. Audacious looks for skins in these directories (in listing order): <prefix>/share/audacious/Skins ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins ~/.audacious/Skins You can set the environment variable SKINSDIR to another location of your choice: For BASH: export SKINSDIR=/path/to/Skins:/more/paths/to/other/locations/of/Skins For C Shell: setenv SKINSDIR /path/to/Skins:/more/paths/to/other/locations/of/Skins You should note that skins designed specifically for Audacious are not compatible with Winamp. Likewise, we do not support Winamp "modern" skins as there is a lot of Winamp-specifics that would have to be reverse-engineered or emulated to properly support those skins. 3. Documentation ---------------- This file or http://audacious-media-player.org 3.1 Controlling Audacious -------------------- When you start up Audacious, you will get a console very similar to that of Winamp. - On the top is the window title bar. To the right you will see 3 buttons, Left button will minimize Audacious. Middle button will make Audacious only display the title bar. Right button will end the Audacious session. - The area in the upper left part displays the following: - Play state: Paused, Stopped, or Playing - Time elapsed in the current song or if you click on it, the reversed. - Spectrum analyzer of the sound being played. Right mouse click will bring up the Visualization menu. Left mouse button will change the analyzer to an oscilloscope and/or none. - To the right of the Spectrum analyzer is the title of the file being played. This also contains the length of the song being played, as well as its position in the [unsorted] playlist. Right clicking in this window will bring up a new menu with some more options that are self explaining. - In the left part of the Spectrum analyzer you'll have letters (at least if you use the default skin) O A I D V. This is known as the "clutterbar'. Left-clicking on these will open up menus or perform the listed actions. O : Options menu A : Always on top I : File info box D : Double size mode V : Visualization menu - Underneath the track title are the following static informational data: - bit rate in KBps (usually 128 or 112) - Sample Rate in KHz (usually 44) - Stereo or Mono channel mixing - Underneath the informational data are a few controls you can play with: - The first slider controls the volume - The second slider controls the balance between speakers - The button marked "EQ" loads up the graphic equalizer - The button marked "PL" loads up the playlist editor - The LARGE slide bar moves from left to right as the song plays. You can drag this to jump to another location in the current file. - On the bottom of the console are the standard buttons you would see on a CD player: Previous track, Play, Pause, Stop, Next track, eject, shuffle and repeat. - The eject button doesn't REALLY eject, of course. :) It opens up the file requester. The File Requester builds a playlist for the current Audacious session. You can use it to load files, add files to the list, or load all mp3s in a directory. - The shuffle button randomizes the sequence of the playlist. - The repeat button when enabled makes the playlist loop when it reaches the end of the playlist. 3.1.1 Key bindings ------------------ Global: (Main, Equalizer and Playlist window) z = Previous song x = Play c = Pause v = Stop b = Next song l = Play file (brings up the Load file(s) dialog) j = Jump to file (in the existing playlist) r = Toggle Repeat s = Toggle Shuffle Control + h = Play location (url) Control + p = Preferences dialog Control + r = Time remaining Control + o = Always on top Control + w = Winshade mode 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 = Toggle Playlist winshade mode Alt + e = Toggle playlist window Alt + g = Toggle equalizer window Main window: 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: 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 = Go to the first song End = Go to the last song Enter = Play selected song Insert = Add file dialog Shift + Insert = Add directory dialog Alt + Insert = Add url dialog Equalizer shade mode: 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 3.2 Playlist editor ------------------- To access the Playlist editor, select the button labeled "PL" on the right side of the Audacious console. This will bring up the actual playlist window, here you'll find 5 buttons. All of these buttons can be held down to bring up an extra menu. From left to right: file + : will add a file to current playlist, held down mode you'll have 2 extra options dir : will let you pick a directory (recursive) url : will let you add an url for streaming file - : will delete the highlighted file, held down mode you'll have 3 more options crop : delete all files except the highlighted in the list all : delete all files in the list misc : *** NOT FUNCTIONAL *** sel all : select all files in current playlist, held down mode you'll have 2 extra options sel zero : select none inv sel : invert you selection misc opts : held down you'll have 2 extra options fileinfo : opens the file info dialog. sort : release button on this will bring up another menu with sort options load list : will let you pick a playlist to load, held down you'll have 2 extra options save : will let you save your playlist new : will empty the playlist and let you create a new playlist If you want to select/deselect files in the filrequester/playlist editor use CTRL for files and SHIFT key for blocks of files. You can also browse the PL using the cursor keys and enter to select song. Pressing the delete button will remove the song from the playlist. If your mouse is equipped with a mouse wheel, you can use this to scroll up and down. 3.3. Equalizer -------------- To access the Equalizer, select the button labeled "EQ" on the right side of the Audacious console. That will bring up the Equalizer window. It looks like an equalizer on a stereo and behaves like one as well. Press the button labeled ON to enable the use of the equalizer, once you turned it on you use it as a normal equalizer. EQ presets will be saved in ~/.audacious/config when you close Audacious. You can also have your own presets for different song using the "Preset" button, Audacious can also import/export from Winamp's preset files. If 'Auto' is enabled, Audacious will try to load equalizer presets like this: 1: Look for a preset file in the directory of the file we are about to play. 2: Look for a directory preset file in the same directory. 3: Look for a preset saved with the "auto-load" feature. 4: Finally, try to load the "default" preset. The 'preset' button will open up a menu with the following options: Load Preset : Will open a window with all available presets. Auto-load preset : Will open a window with all available auto-load presets. Default : Will load the default preset. Zero : Will reset the equalizer to zero. From file : Will load from a .preset file From Winamp EQF file : Will load from a Winamp equalizer file. If you choose a library file only the first entry will be loaded. Import Winamp presets : Imports the presets contained in an Winamp equalizer library file (often named Winamp.q1) and add all the entries to the Preset window. Save Preset : Let you name the current preset and save it. Auto-load preset : Saves the current settings as a preset for the song currently playing. Default : Saves the default value for the equalizer. From file : Saves the current settings in a preset file. From Winamp EQF file : Exports the current settings to a file readable by Winamp. Delete Preset : Let you delete a preset from the list. Auto-load preset : Let you delete a auto-load preset from the list. Configure Equalizer : Change the default names of directory based preset files. 3.4. Menu --------- There are several menu hot spots on the Audacious window. One place is at the left hand side of the visual window described in sections 3.1 If you click the right mouse button in the main window, the menus will also pop up (same as clicking the button on the top left corner). 3.5. Preferences ---------------- Use the menu to open Options / Preferences or press CTRL-P to bring the preferences dialog up. 3.5.1. Appearance ----------------- Skins In the skinlist you can choose a skin. How to install skins is described above. Click on a skin in the list to change to it. Fonts You can set the font in the main window by setting the 'Player' font. You can change the playlist font by setting the 'Playlist' font. Miscellaneous Show track numbers in playlist - Enable/disable displaying of track numbers in the playlist. Use custom cursors - Enable/disable custom cursors set by the skin. 3.5.2. Mouse ------------ Mouse wheel Change how Audacious handles scroll behaviours. 3.5.3. Playlist --------------- Filename Convert underscores to blanks - Converts '_' (underscores) to ' ' in the playlist. Convert %20 to blanks - Converts '%20' to ' ' in the playlist. Metadata Load metadata from playlists and files - Loads metadata from files and playlists (e.g. ID3 tags). Playback Don't advance in playlist - Don't advance to the next song in the playlist when the current song ends. Pause between songs - Set the time (in secons) to pause on songchange Song display Title format - Choose the format to display the song names in the playlist. Custom string - When the above option is set to 'Custom' insert a string of substitutes here. 3.5.6. Plugins -------------- Enable/disable and configure plugins in this section. Choose a tab to list one of the types of plugins: - Decoders (filetype/device support) - General (general plugins) - Visualization (visualization plugins) - Effects (effect plugins) 3.5.7. Audio ------------ The settings in this section are related to the audio system. 3.6 Plugins ----------- Plugins are what makes Audacious work, by moving most of the code out of Audacious and into a plugin architecture it's possible to change almost everything in Audacious. There are today 8 different types of plugins. However to promote maximum flexibility of the platform itself, we no longer include any plugins with the Audacious core. You will need to download and install our plugin pack for Audacious if you expect it to do anything useful (or install someone else's plugin pack if one should exist). Additionally, you can find a list of plugins at: http://audacious-media-player.org/Plugins You should note that third-party plugins are not supported by the Audacious development team, and that you should report any issues with them on our forums, but NEVER on our bugtracker. 3.7 Playlist Manager -------------------- Audacious supports multiple playlists (think foobar2000). For the manipulation of playlists, we have included a playlist manager tool. It is accessible from the Playlist menu. 4. Command Line Options ----------------------- audacious --help will produce: Usage: audacious [options] [files] ... Options: -------- -h, --help Display this text and exit. -n, --session Select Audacious/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 Headless operation -E, --enqueue-to-temp Enqueues to a temporary playlist. You can specify files on the command line, e.g: audacious file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.mp3 audacious *.mp3 audacious playlist.m3u playlist.pls playlist.xspf If you do this while Audacious is running, the current playlist will be cleared and the files/playlist specified on the command line will be used instead. To keep the current playlist intact use the -E option, which will create a new temporary playlist with the requested media, or the -e option, which will append to your currently selected playlist. 5. Features ----------- 5.1 Supported Features ---------------------- Seeking in files Volume/Balance Shuffle play Repeat play Playlist editor Spectrum Analyzer One Line mode al'a WinShade in Winamp Oscilloscope Timer Elapsed/Timer Remaining Plug-in system Output/Input/Effect/General/Visualization Equalizer Double Size option Winamp 2.0 skin support (can use wsz files) GTK Requesters (with theme support) Streaming/Shoutcast(1.0/1.1)/Icecast support Auto remove borders if the WM has support for it Fast jump in playlist Scroll wheel support Saves HTTP streams to HD HTTP authentication Plays MPEG layer 1/2/3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis Compiles and works on other Unixes Proxy authentication support 6. Obtaining Audacious ------------------- Currently, we only provide source tarballs at: http://audacious-media-player.org/Downloads The Subversion snapshots listed are not regularly updated. We encourage you to download Audacious straight from our SVN repository: svn co http://svn.atheme.org/audacious/trunk audacious-devel 6.1 Obtaining Skins ------------------- You can find Audacious/XMMS skins made by Audacious/XMMS users at: http://www.xmms.org/skins.html http://themes.org/skins/xmms You can find more places on our website, at: http://audacious-media-player.org/Skins 7. Misc ------- 7.1. Tips and Tricks ------------------- If you have a windows partition with Winamp installed, a good idea would be to set the SKINSDIR variable to that dir. Audacious features some command line options like next/previous songs, those things can be binded to a key. I use AfterStep and the useless window keys for this. Here is an example from my .steprc: Key Meta_R A N Exec "Audacious" audacious -r Key Menu A N Exec "Audacious" audacious -f If you want all your mp3's in one playlist an easy way is: locate .mp3 > /path/to/playlistname (considering you have a fairly recent updatedb, don't blame us if locate don't find the file you downloaded 3 minutes ago) 8. Bugs ------- Audacious is under heavy development and as such, has quite a number of bugs. Our bug tracker page is maintained at: http://bugs-meta.atheme.org/ It will continue to have bugs as we fix and introduce new ones through rewriting and enhancement. Help us along by reporting new bugs, and verifying existing ones. 9. Contact Emails ----------------- Project Admins: William Pitcock email: nenolod at sacredspiral.co.uk Tony Vroon email: chainsaw at gentoo.org Alternatively, you can try the mailing list at audacious@atheme.org. Subscription information is available at: http://mail.atheme.org/mailman/listinfo/audacious If a mailing list is not interesting to you, you can try our forums: http://boards.nenolod.net There is also an IRC channel at irc.atheme.org #audacious. You should note that this IRC presence is mainly for internal project use, but that doesn't stop 50-someodd people from visiting there.