exfalso(1) General Commands Manual exfalso(1)NAME
exfalso - audio tag editor
SYNOPSIS
exfalso [ directory ]
DESCRIPTION
Ex Falso displays and edits audio metadata tags. Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT.
This manual page is only a short reference for Ex Falso. Complete documentation is available at http://code.google.com/p/quodli-
bet/wiki/Guide.
OPTIONS
Ex Falso may be given a directory to open on the command line.
TIED TAGS
Many places in Ex Falso 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.
RENAMING FILES
Ex Falso 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 http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Renaming.
BUGS
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/list for a list of all currently open bugs and feature requests.
AUTHORS
Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Ex Falso.
SEE ALSO
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide,
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/FAQ
February 20th, 2006 exfalso(1)
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quodlibet(1) General Commands Manual quodlibet(1)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 http://code.google.com/p/quodli-
bet/wiki/Guide.
QUOD LIBET 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
--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 sec-
tion below.
--query=search-string
Search your audio library
--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
Hide 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 http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Searching.
All internal tags begin with a ~ character. Non-numeric internal tags are ~basename, ~dirname, ~filename, ~format, ~length, ~people, and
~rating. Numeric internal tags are ~#added, ~#bitrate, ~#disc, ~#lastplayed, ~#laststarted, ~#length, ~#mtime, ~#playcount, ~#skipcount,
and ~#track.
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_InternalTags.
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 http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Renaming.
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 http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_AudioBackends.
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 (from http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Plugins) here.
~/.quodlibet/browsers/
Put custom library browsers here.
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Extending.
BUGS
See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/list 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
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide,
http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/FAQ,
regex(7), gst-launch(1)
November 26th, 2005 quodlibet(1)