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15 .Dd June 12, 2022
16 .Dt AMUSED 1
17 .Os
18 .Sh NAME
19 .Nm amused
20 .Nd music player
21 .Sh SYNOPSIS
22 .Nm
23 .Op Fl dv
24 .Op Fl s Ar socket
25 .Oo
26 .Ar command
27 .Op Ar argument ...
28 .Oc
29 .Sh DESCRIPTION
30 .Nm
31 is a music player daemon and command-line utility to plays music.
32 The server is started automatically in the background on demand.
33 .Pp
34 The following options are available:
35 .Bl -tag -width Ds
36 .It Fl d
37 Do not daemonize:
38 .Nm
39 will run in the foreground and log to standard error.
40 It's ignored if any commands are given on the command line or if the
41 server is already running.
42 .It Fl v
43 Produce more verbose output.
44 .It Fl s Ar socket
45 Use
46 .Ar socket
47 instead of the default
48 .Pa /tmp/amused-$UID
49 to communicate with the daemon.
50 .It Ar command Op Ar argument ...
51 Specify the command to run.
52 If no commands are specified,
53 .Ic status
54 is assumed.
55 .El
56 .Pp
57 The following commands are available:
58 .Bl -tag -width Ds
59 .It Cm add Ar
60 Enqueue the given files.
61 .It Cm flush
62 Erase the playlist.
63 .It Cm jump Ar pattern
64 Play the first song in the playing queue that matches
65 .Ar pattern
66 .Pq a basic case-insensitive regexp .
67 .It Cm load Op Ar file
68 Load a playlist from
69 .Ar file
70 or standard input.
71 A playlist is a list of paths to music files given one per line
72 and optionally prefixed by
73 .Sq > \&
74 or two spaces.
75 If the list was generated by
76 .Nm
77 .Ic show Fl p
78 restores also the position in the playlist, otherwise if already playing
79 something tries to match the currently playing song in the new list.
80 Failing that, the playlist will be played from the first track onwards.
81 .It Cm monitor Op Ar events
82 Stop indefinitely and print when an event in the comma-separated list of
83 .Ar events
84 happen.
85 By default logs every event.
86 The
87 .Ar events
88 are triggered either by other instances of
89 .Nm
90 issuing commands or the player itself anvancing through the playing
91 queue.
92 The events name take after the command name that generates it, e.g.\&
93 .Ar play ,
94 .Ar toggle ,
95 .Ar ...
96 .It Cm next
97 Play the next song.
98 .It Cm pause
99 Pause the playback.
100 .It Cm play
101 Start or resume the playback.
102 .It Cm prev
103 Play the previous song.
104 .It Cm repeat one|all on|off
105 Enable or disable the automatic repetition of the current track
106 .Pq Cm one
107 or of the whole playing queue
108 .Pq Cm all .
109 .It Cm restart
110 Rewind the current song to the beginning.
111 .It Cm show Op Fl p
112 Print the current playlist.
113 With
114 .Fl p
115 it prints a
116 .Dq pretty
117 list with the current playing song prefixed by
118 .Sq > \& .
119 .It Cm status
120 Print playback status and current song.
121 .It Cm stop
122 Stop the music player.
123 .It Cm toggle
124 Play/pause the playback.
125 .El
126 .Pp
127 Commands can be abbreviated to the smallest unique prefix, for example
128 .Sq rep
129 can be given instead of
130 .Sq repeat .
131 .Pp
132 .Nm
133 skips non-regular or not supported audio file found in the playing
134 queue implicitly and advances to the next item.
135 .Sh FILES
136 .Bl -tag -width "/tmp/amused-$UID" -compact
137 .It Pa /tmp/amused-$UID
138 .Ux Ns -domain
139 socket used for communication with the daemon.
140 .El
141 .Sh EXAMPLES
142 Enqueue all mp3 files in the current directory:
143 .Bd -literal -offset indent
144 $ amused add *.mp3
145 .Ed
146 .Pp
147 Recursively add all opus files:
148 .Bd -literal -offset indent
149 $ find . -type f -iname \\*.opus -exec amused add {} +
150 .Ed
151 .Pp
152 Load every file under the current directory recursively:
153 .Bd -literal -offset indent
154 $ find . | amused load
155 .Ed
156 .Pp
157 Save the state of the player to the file
158 .Pa state :
159 .Bd -literal -offset indent
160 $ amused show -p > state
161 .Ed
162 .Pp
163 Load a previous state:
164 .Bd -literal -offset indent
165 $ amused load < state
166 .Ed
167 .Pp
168 Shuffle the playlist:
169 .Bd -literal -offset indent
170 $ amused show | sort -R | amused load
171 .Ed
172 .Pp
173 Remove duplicates:
174 .Bd -literal -offset indent
175 $ amused show | sort | uniq | amused load
176 .Ed
177 .Pp
178 Select a song with
179 .Xr fzf 1
180 .Bd -literal -offset indent
181 $ amused jump "$(amused show | fzf +s)"
182 .Ed
183 .Sh AUTHORS
184 .An -nosplit
185 Then
186 .Nm
187 utility was written by
188 .An Omar Polo Aq Mt op@openbsd.org .