GJAY(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   GJAY(1)

NAME

       gjay - organizes music collections

SYNOPSIS

       gjay [-a file] [-c color] [-d] [-f] file] [-l length] [-p] [-s] [-u] [-v verbosity] [-P]
       gjay [-hV]

DESCRIPTION

       gjay  (Gtk+  DJ) analyzes and categorizes collections of MP3, OGG, FLAC and WAV music files so that interesting playlists can be generated.
       Each song is assigned characteristics (BPM and spectrum) and user-assigned attributes (rating and color). "Color" is just a handy way for a
       user to describe a song.

       gjay  has  both a user-visible interface and a background processing component. The user-visible component is used to select the base music
       directory, set song attributes, and generate playlists. The background component (the daemon) analyzes songs.

       Song analysis can take a while. After the base music directory has been set and the daemon has started its analysis, it is possible to quit
       the user interface portion of the program and allow the daemon to continue in the background. GJay can be started in daemon mode by passing
       -d, in which case it runs until song analysis is complete.  It's OK to kill or ctrl+c to quit a running daemon; it saves data  as  it  goes
       along.

       You  can  create  playlists  from within the GJay or from the command line.  If you generate a playlist from the command line, the previous
       session's playlist preferences for the importance of various attributes will be used.

OPTIONS

       -a file, --analyze-standalone=file
	      Run the analysis daemon on file and then exit. Print the results of analyzing a file to stdout. Does not consult existing file data.

       -a color, --color=color
	      Start the playlist with the initial color of color.  color can either be one of the named colors or a hex tuple  in  the	format	of
	      0xRRGGBB.

       -d, --daemon
	      Run gjay as a daemon only with no GUI frontend.

       -f file, --file=file
	      Start the playlist with file.

       -l minutes, --length=minutes
	      Override the playlist length, the default is set in the preferences.

       -s, --skip-verification
	      Skip file verification.

       -u, --m3u-playlist
	      When generating a playlist, make it in the m3u format.

       -v verbosity, --verbose=verbosity
	      Set the level of how verbose gjay is.

       -P, --player-start
	      Start the music player after making a playlist.

       -V, --version
	      Show the version and copyright information for the program.

SEE ALSO

       audacious(1),mpd(1)

								    2011-03-22								   GJAY(1)