===========
 quodlibet
===========

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audio library manager and player
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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 podcasts.
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.io/en/latest/guide/index.html.

OPTIONS
=======

--add-location=<location>
    Add a file or directory to the library

--debug
    Print debugging information

--enqueue=<filename|query>
    Enqueue a filename or query results

--enqueue-files=<filename[,filename..]>
    Enqueue comma-separated files

--filter <tag=value>
    Filter on a tag value

--focus
    Focus the running player

--force-previous
    Jump to previous song

--help
    Display brief usage information

--hide-window
    Hide main window

--list-browsers
    List available browsers

--next
    Jump to next song

--no-plugins
    Start without plugins

--open-browser=BrowserName
    Open a new browser

--pause
    Pause playback

--play
    Start playback

--play-file=filename
    Play a file

--play-pause
    Toggle play/pause mode

--previous
    Jump to previous song if near the beginning, otherwise restart

--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, plus special tags ~#elapsed or ~elapsed.

--print-playlist
    Print the current playlist

--print-query=<query>
    Print filenames of results of query

--print-query-text
    Print the active text query

--print-queue
    Print the contents of the queue

--query=search-string
    Search your audio library

--queue=<on|off|t>
    Show or hide the queue

--quit
    Exit Quod Libet

--random=tag
    Filter on a random value

--rating=<[+|-]0.0..1.0>
    Set rating of playing song

--rating-down
    Decrease rating of playing song by one star

--rating-up
    Increase rating of playing song by one star

--refresh
    Refresh and rescan library

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

--repeat-type=<current|all|one|off>
    Repeat the currently playing song, the current list, stop after
    one song, or turn repeat off

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

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

--set-browser=BrowserName
    Set the current browser

--show-window
    Show main window

--shuffle=<off|on|t>
    Turn shuffle off, on, or toggle

--shuffle-type=<random|weighted|off>
    Set the shuffle type to be random, to prefer higher rated songs,
    or turn shuffle off

--start-hidden
    Don't show any windows on start

--start-playing
    Begin playing immediately

--status
    Print playing status

--stop
    Stop playback

--stop-after=<0|1|t>
    Stop after the playing song

--toggle-window
    Toggle main window visibility

--unfilter
    Remove active browser filters

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

--version
    Display version and copyright

--volume=<[+|-]0..100>
    Set the volume

--volume-down
    Turn down the volume

--volume-up
    Turn up the volume

--with-pattern=<pattern>
    Set the output format of the --print-playing, --print-playlist,
    --print-query, and --print-queue commands.  You may provide in a
    tag-pattern string like the kind described in the RENAMING FILES
    section below.

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.io/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.io/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 insert 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.io/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.io/en/latest/guide/playback/backends.html.


FILES
=====

~/.quodlibet/songs
   A pickled Python dict of cached metadata. Deleting this file will remove all
   songs from your library.

~/.quodlibet/config
   Quod Libet's configuration file. This file is overwritten when Quod Libet
   exits.

~/.quodlibet/current
   A "key=value" file containing information about the currently playing song.

~/.quodlibet/control
   A FIFO connected to the most-recently-started instance of the program.
   --next, --previous, etc., use this to control the player.

~/.quodlibet/plugins/
   Put plugins here.

~/.quodlibet/browsers/
   Put custom library browsers here.

See https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/interacting.html.

BUGS
====

See https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues for a list of all
currently open bugs and feature requests.

AUTHORS
=======

Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Quod Libet.

SEE ALSO
========

| https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/,
| https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/faq.html,
| ``regex``\(7), ``gst-launch``\(1)
