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rhythmbox(1) General Commands Manual rhythmbox(1)

NAME

rhythmbox-client - controls a running instance of rhythmbox

SYNOPSIS

rhythmbox-client [option...][file...]

DESCRIPTION

rhythmbox-client is a tool for controlling an already running instance of rhythmbox. It's useful for remote control scripting, adding specific files to the library from the shell, or printing details of what's playing. Any files specified after the option arguments will be added to the library. If the --enqueue option is given, the files will also be added to the play queue.

OPTIONS

-?,--help
Show help options
Enable debug output
Do not start a new instance of rhythmbox
Quit rhythmbox
Don't present an existing rhythmbox window
Hide the rhythmbox window
Jump to next song
Jump to previous song
Show notification of the playing song
Resume playback if currently paused
Pause playback if currently playing
Toggle play/pause mode
Play a specified URI, importing it if necessary
Add specified tracks already in the library to the play queue
Empty the play queue before adding new tracks
Print the title and artist of the playing song
Print formatted details of the song (see FORMAT OPTIONS below).
Set the playback volume
Increase the playback volume
Decrease the playback volume
Print the current playback volume
Mute playback
Unmute playback

FORMAT OPTIONS

%at
album title
%aa
album artist
%aA
album artist (lowercase)
%as
album artist sortname
%aS
album artist sortname (lowercase)
%ay
album year
%ag
album genre
%aG
album genre (lowercase)
%an
album disc number
%aN
album disc number, zero padded
%st
stream title
%tn
track number (i.e 8)
%tN
track number, zero padded (i.e 08)
%tt
track title
%ta
track artist
%tA
track artist (lowercase)
%ts
track artist sortname
%tS
track artist sortname (lowercase)
%td
track duration
%te
track elapsed time

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

rhythmbox(1).

2007-06-28 GNOME