NAME¶

Banshee - Media Management and Playback application
Muinshee - Media Management and Playback application

SYNOPSIS¶

banshee [options...] [files|URIs...]
muinshee [options...] [files|URIs...]

DESCRIPTION¶

Banshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other media devices, play and manage video files and burn selections to a CD.

OPTIONS¶

--next

Play the next track, optionally restarting if the 'restart' value is set

--previous

Play the previous track, optionally restarting if the 'restart value is set

--restart-or-previous

If the current song has been played longer than 4 seconds then restart it, otherwise the same as --previous

--play-enqueued

Automatically start playing any tracks enqueued on the command line

--play

Start playback

--pause

Pause playback

--toggle-playing

Toggle playback

--stop

Completely stop playback

--stop-when-finished

Enable or disable playback stopping after the currently playing track (value should be either 'true' or 'false')

--set-volume=LEVEL

Set the playback volume (0-100), prefix with +/- for relative values

--set-position=POS

Seek to a specific point (seconds, float)

--set-rating=RATING

Set the currently played track's rating (0 to 5)

--query-current-state

Current player state

--query-last-state

Last player state

--query-can-pause

Query whether the player can be paused

--query-can-seek

Query whether the player can seek

--query-volume

Player volume

--query-position

Player position in currently playing track

--query-uri

URI

--query-artist

Artist Name

--query-album

Album Title

--query-title

Track Title

--query-duration

Duration

--query-track-number

Track Number

--query-track-count

Track Count

--query-disc

Disc Number

--query-year

Year

--query-rating

Rating

--query-score

Score

--query-bit-rate

Bit Rate

--show|--present

Present the user interface on the active workspace

--fullscreen

Enter the full-screen mode

--hide

Hide the user interface

--no-present

Do not present the user interface, regardless of any other options

--show-import-media

Present the import media dialog box

--show-about

Present the about dialog

--show-open-location

Present the open location dialog

--show-preferences

Present the preferences dialog

--debug

Enable general debugging features

--debug-sql

Enable debugging output of SQL queries

--debug-addins

Enable debugging output of Mono.Addins

--db=FILE

Specify an alternate database to use

--gconf-base-key=KEY

Specify an alternate key, default is /apps/banshee-1/

--uninstalled

Optimize instance for running uninstalled; most notably, this will create an alternate Mono.Addins database in the working directory

--disable-dbus

Disable DBus support completely

--no-gtkrc

Skip loading a custom gtkrc file (~/.config/banshee-1/gtkrc) if it exists

--help

Show this help

--help-playback

Show options for controlling playback

--help-query-track

Show options for querying the playing track

--help-query-player

Show options for querying the playing engine

--help-ui

Show options for the user interface

--help-debug

Show options for developers and debugging

--help-all

Show all option groups

--version

Show version information

Copyright 2005-2009 Novell, Inc. and Contributors.