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NAME
    XMMS - an audio player for X.

SYNOPSIS
    xmms [-h] [--help] [-n <session>] [--session=<session>] [-r] [--rew]
    [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop]  [-f] [--fwd]  [-e]
    [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v] [--version] [filename]...

DESCRIPTION
    XMMS is  the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other
    kinds of media files. By default XMMS can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis,
    RIFF wav, most  module formats, and a few other formats. XMMS can be
    extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video for-
    mats.

OPTIONS
    XMMS accepts the following options:

    -h, --help
    Show summary of options.

    -n, --session
    Select XMMS session (Default: 0).

    -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.

    -e, --enqueue
    Don't clear the playlist.

    -m, --show-main-window
    Show the main window.

    -v, --version
    Print version number and exit.

SKINS
    XMMS supports WinAmp style skins.  Skins may be stored in either
    archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format.
    XMMS looks for skinfiles in /usr/share/xmms/Skins, ~/.xmms/Skins, and
    locations specified by the SKINSDIR variable.

KEYBINDINGS
    Global keybindings for XMMS:

  z     Previous song
  x     Play
  c     Pause
  v     Stop
  b     Next song
  l     Play file
  j     Jump to file
  r     Toggle Repeat
  s     Toggle Shuffle
  Shift + l    Play directory
  Control + l    Play location
  Control + p    Preferences dialog
  Control + v    Visualization plugin dialog
  Control + r    Time remaining
  Control + a    Always on top
  Control + w    Winshade mode
  Control + d    Doublesize mode
  Control + e    Easy move
  Control + j    Jump to time
  Control + z    Start of list
  Control + n    No Playlist Advance
  Control + 3    File info dialog
  Control + Alt + w  Toggle Equalizer winshade mode
  Shift + Control + w Playlist winshade mode
  Alt + w    Hide/show mainwindow
  Alt + e    Hide/show playlistwindow
  Alt + g    Hide/show Equalizer
  Alt + s    Skin selecting window

    Main window specific:

  Arrow key up    Volume up 2%
  Arrow key down    Volume down 2%
  Arrow key right   Skip 5 seconds forward in song
  Arrow key left    Skip 5 seconds back in song

    Playlist window specific:

  Arrow key up    Up one step in playlist
  Arrow key down    Down one step in playlist
  Delete     Remove selected songs from playlist
  Page Up    Move one page up
  Page Down    Move one page down
  Home     First page in playlist
  End     Last page in playlist
  Enter     Play selected song
  Insert     Add file dialog
  Shift + Insert    Add directory dialog
  Alt + Insert    Add url dialog

    Equalizer shade mode specific:

  Arrow key up    Volume up 2%
  Arrow key down    Volume down 2%
  Arrow key right   Balance 4% to right
  Arrow key left    Balance 4% to left

FILES
    ~/.xmms/config  Users xmms configuration.

    ~/.xmms/xmms.m3u  Default playlist usually loaded on startup.

    ~/.xmms/gtkrc  Users set of  xmms-specific GTK config settings.
    Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be
    set here.

    ~/.xmms/menurc  Users set of keybindings.

    ~/.xmms/Skins, /usr/share/xmms/Skins
    Default locations where XMMS should look for  skin-
    files.

    ~/.xmms/Plugins  Location of user installed plugins.

ENVIRONMENT
    SKINSDIR   Colon separated list of paths where XMMS should look for
    skinfiles.

    TARCMD   Tar command supporting GNU tar style  decompression.  Used
    for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is
    tar.

    UNZIPCMD   Command for decompressing zip files (skins).  Default is
    unzip.

OTHER INFO
    The webpage for XMMS is at http://www.xmms.org. Here you can find info
    about XMMS, download the latest version, plugins, and skins.

SEE ALSO
   wmxmms(1), gnomexmms(1)