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PROGRAM:

NAME

quodlibet - audio library manager and player

SYNOPSIS

quodlibet [ --print-playing | control ]
exfalso [ directory ]

DESCRIPTION

Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your
audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely
flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities.

This manual page is only a short reference for Quod Libet. Complete documentation is
available at https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/index.html.

OPTIONS

--enqueue filename|query
Enqueue a filename or query results

--filter tag=value
Filter on a tag value

--focus
Focus the running player

--hide-window
Hide main window

--next Jump to next song

--list-browsers
List available browsers

--open-browser=BrowserName
Open a new browser

--order=inorder|shuffle|weighted|onesong|toggle
Set or toggle the playback order

--pause
Pause playback

--play Start playback

--play-file=filename
Play a file

--play-pause
Toggle play/pause mode

--previous
Jump to previous song or restart if near the beginning

--force-previous
Jump to previous song

--print-playlist
Print the current playlist

--print-queue
Print the contents of the queue

--print-playing
Print out information about the currently playing song. You may provide in a string
like the kind described in the RENAMING FILES section below.

--query=search-string
Search your audio library

--run Start Quod Libet if it isn't running

--quit Exit Quod Libet

--random=tag
Filter on a random value

--repeat=off|on|t
Turn repeat off, on, or toggle

--seek=[+|-][HH:]MM:SS
Seek within the playing song

--set-browser=BrowserName
Set the current browser

--set-rating=0.0..1.0
Rate the playing song

--show-window
Show main window

--start-playing
Begin playing immediately

--status
Print playing status

--toggle-window
Toggle main window visibility

--unfilter
Remove active browser filters

--unqueue=filename|query
Unqueue a file or query

--volume=(+|-|)0..100
Set the volume

ALBUM COVERS

Album covers should be put in the same directory as the songs they apply to, and have
"folder", "front", or "cover" in their filenames. If you want to store multiple albums in
the same directory but keep distinct cover images, the name of the appropriate image file
must contain the labelid tag value, e.g. COCX-32760 cover.jpg.

TIED TAGS

Many places in Quod Libet allow you to use "tied tags". Tied tags are two tag names joined
together with a "~" like "title~version" or "album~part". Tied tags result in "nice"
displays even when one of the tags is missing; for example, "title~version" will result in
Title - Version when a version tag is present, but only Title when one isn't. You can tie
any number of tags together.

SEARCH SYNTAX

All of Quod Libet's search boxes support advanced searches of the following forms:

tag = value
tag = !value
tag = "value"
tag = /value/
tag = &(value1, value2)
tag = |(value1, value2)
!tag = value
|(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2)
&(tag1 = value1, tag2 = value2)
#(numerictag < value)
#(numerictag = value)
#(numerictag > value)

The 'c' postfix on strings or regular expressions makes the search case-sensitive.
Numeric values may be given as integers, floating-point numbers, MM:SS format, or simple
English, e.g. "3 days", "2 hours".

See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/searching.html.

All internal tags begin with a ~ character. Non-numeric internal tags are ~base‐ name,
~dirname, ~filename, ~format, ~length, ~people, and ~rating. Numeric internal tags are
~#added, ~#bitrate, ~#disc, ~#lastplayed, ~#laststarted, ~#length, ~#mtime, ~#playcount,
~#skipcount, and ~#track.

See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/tags/internal_tags.html.

RENAMING FILES

Quod Libet allows you to rename files based on their tags. In some cases you may wish to
alter the filename depending on whether some tags are present or missing, in addition to
their values. A common pattern might be

<tracknumber>. <title~version>

You can use a '|' to only text when a tag is present:

<tracknumber|<tracknumber>. ><title~version>

You can also specify literal text to use if the tag is missing by adding another '|':

<album|<album>|No Album> - <title>

See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/renaming_files.html.

AUDIO BACKENDS

Quod Libet uses GStreamer for audio playback. It tries to read your GConf GStreamer
configuration, but if that fails it falls back to osssink. You can change the pipeline
option in ~/.quodlibet/config to use a different sink, or pass options to the sink. For
example, you might use esdsink or alsasink device=hw:1.

See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/playback/backends.html.

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