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MAN Solaris - rhythmbox (1)

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rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME

CONTENTS

rhythmbox [--dry-run] [--focus] [--next] [--no-registration] [--no-update] [--pause] [--play] [--play-pause] [--previous] [--print-playing] [--print-playing-album] [--print-playing-artist] [--print-playing-genre] [--print-playing-path] [--print-playing-track] [--print-play-time] [--print-song-length] [--quit] [--repeat] [--rhythmdb-file=STRING] [--seek=LONG] [--set-play-time=LONG] [--set-rating=DOUBLE] [--set-volum=FLOAT] [--shuffle] [--toggle-hide] [--toggle-mute] [gnome-std-options]

rhythmbox is an integrated music playing and management application. It is designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework, or the Xine framework, to support a wide range of audio formats (including mp3 and ogg).

rhythmbox features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features to rhythmbox itself.

The following options are supported:

--print-playing

Print the playing song and exit.

--print-playing-artist

Print the playing song artist and exit.

--print-playing-album

Print the playing song album and exit.

--print-playing-track

Print the playing song track and exit.

--print-playing-genre

Print the playing song genre and exit.

--print-playing-pat

Print the playing song URI and exit.

--print-song-length

Print the playing song length in seconds and exit.

--print-play-time

Print the current elapsed time of playing song and exit.

--set-play-time=LONG

Seek to the specified time in playing song if possible and exit.

--seek=LONG

Seek by the specified amount if possible and exit.

--set-rating=DOUBLE

Set the rating of the currently playing song and exit.

--play-pause

Toggle play/pause mode.

--pause

Pause playback if currently playing.

--play

Resume playback if currently paused.

--focus

Focus the running player.

--previous

Jump to previous song.

--next

Jump to next song.

--shuffle

Toggle shuffling.

--repeat

Toggle repeat.

--set-volume=FLOAT

Set the volume level.

--toggle-mute

Mute or unmute playback.

--toggle-hide

Change visibility of the main Rhythmbox window.

--no-update

Do not update the library with file.

-n, --no-registration

Do not register the shell.

--dry-run

Don’t save any data permanently (implies --no-registration).

--rhythmdb-file=STRING

Path for database file to use.

-q, --quit

Quit Rhythmbox.

gnome-std-options

Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

>0 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/rhythmbox

Executable for rhythmbox

/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins

Location of rhythmbox plugins.

/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rhythmbox

Location of developer documentation for writing a rhythmbox plugin.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-media-player
Interface stability	Volatile

gst-launch(1), gnome-std-options(5)

Updated by Chris Wang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

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