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coolbooks2

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Audacious Command Line Broken

I was trying to play a file with audacious from the command line and I found out it doesn't work properly. If you use the audacious --play file option audacious just loads with the add files box up instead of playing the file if the playlist is empty. If it isn't then it just plays the file that's in the playlist not the file I told it to play. I did some online research and it seems both gentoo and red hat have some patchs on their sites. Is it possible for Arch to patch their audacious so I can use the command line options again?

fijam

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

I did some online research

Did you do documentation research?

It does what it is supposed to. See

audacious --help

To play a file from CLI first start audacious and then use audtool, for example:

audtool playlist-addurl-to-new-playlist path/to/file.mp3
audtool playback-play

coolbooks2

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

Yes I did check the audacious --help. If I run audacious --play now it gives me a segmentation fault. Audacious --enqueue-to-temp  which according to audacious --help is supposed to add files to the playlist opens the dialog add files box if the playlist is empty and if it isn't plays the first item on that playlist.  I posted a bug report because I belive it's a bug especially since other distos have patched their versions because of this problem.

audacious --help
Usage:
  audacious [OPTION...] - play multimedia files

Help Options:
  -?, --help                      Show help options
  --help-all                      Show all help options
  --help-gtk                      Show GTK+ Options
  --help-sm-client                Show Session Management options

Application Options:
  -r, --rew                       Skip backwards in playlist
  -p, --play                      Start playing current playlist
  -u, --pause                     Pause current song
  -s, --stop                      Stop current song
  -t, --play-pause                Pause if playing, play otherwise
  -f, --fwd                       Skip forward in playlist
  -j, --show-jump-box             Display Jump to File dialog
  -e, --enqueue                   Don't clear the playlist
  -E, --enqueue-to-temp           Add new files to a temporary playlist
  -m, --show-main-window          Display the main window
  -a, --activate                  Display all open Audacious windows
  -H, --headless                  Enable headless operation
  -N, --no-log                    Print all errors and warnings to stdout
  -v, --version                   Show version
  --display=DISPLAY               X display to use

Sorry guess my first post wasn't clear.

Last edited by coolbooks2 (2009-02-28 09:02:26)

dolby

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

Since you made an upstream report too, i suggest you link to it to the report you made in the Arch flyspray

Last edited by dolby (2009-02-28 10:06:23)

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fijam

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

BTW audacious 2.0 is just around the corner, perhaps it is already fixed.

coolbooks2

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

Link to the upstream bug report is here:
http://redmine.atheme.org/issues/show/1

Hopefully it is fixed already. Can't wait for Audacious 2.0

coolbooks2

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Re: Audacious Command Line Broken

There is a sort of fix for this problem. If a instance of Audacious is already running the command line options work properly.