mpc123(1)						      General Commands Manual							 mpc123(1)

NAME

       mpc123 - your handy Musepack audio player

SYNOPSIS

       mpc123 [options] file(s)

DESCRIPTION

       mpc123  is  a  command-line  player for the Musepack audio compression format. mpc123 reads mpc audio files and decodes them to the devices
       specified on the command line.

       During playback, you can pass to the next playlist element (or a random one if one of the -z and -Z options were used, see below) by  send-
       ing SIGINT to the process, thus usually pressing ^C will act as a "next-button" for the player.

OPTIONS

       --gain N, -g N
	   Set gain (audio volume) to N (0-100 inclusive, default 100, 0 mutes sound)

       -o driver
	   Set output devicetype to driver; possible drivers include:

	 oss
	   Linux Open Sound System

	 alsa
	   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

	 alsa09
	   ALSA version 0.9 and newer (you should really be using this)

	 esd
	   Enlightenment sound daemon

	 arts
	   Analog Real Time System (kde sound daemon)

	 null
	   Debugging output target

       --audiodevice dev, -a dev
	   Use	dev  for  audio-out; If not specified, the program tries to pick some sane defaults, based on the used audio output driver. Common
	   devices include:

	 /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1
	   for oss output

	 default or hw:0
	   for alsa09 output

       --au filename.au, -u filename.au
	   Use au file filename.au for output

       --cdr filename.cdr, -c filename.cdr
	   Use raw file filename.cdr for output (this can be used directly with cdrecord's -audio option)

       --wav filename.wav, -w filename.wav
	   Use wave file filename.wav for output

       --list file, -@ file
	   Use playlist file as list of Musepack files; The playlist format is simple: one file per line.  You can easily generate a playlist  for
	   mpc123 with the find(1) command:

	   find /path/to/musicroot -iname *.mpc -fprint file

       --random, -Z
	   Play files randomly until interrupted

       --shuffle, -z
	   Shuffle list of files before playing

       --verbose, -v
	   Increase verbosity (default verbosity is 0), the more -v, the more verbose mpc123 becomes

       --quiet, -q
	   Reset verbosity to 0 (no title or boilerplate); this is the default

       --help, -h
	   Print the help screen, with some brief usage information

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Daniele Sempione <scrows at oziosi.org>; Fernando Vezzosi <fvezzosi at masobit.net> made some edits

								   January 2006 							 mpc123(1)