---
name: "beep-media-player"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "beep-media-player"
version: "0.9.7.1+cvs20050803-2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/beep-media-player"
---

# beep-media-player(1)

an audio player for X.

## NAME

Beep Media Player - an audio player for X.

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

*BMP* is the Beep Media Player, based on the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kinds of media files.  By default BMP can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, RIFF wav, most module formats, and a few other formats.  BMP can be extended through plugins to play a number of other audio and video formats.

## OPTIONS

BMP accepts the following options:

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-n, --session**

  Select BMP/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

BMP supports WinAmp style skins.  Skins may be stored in either archived (*.zip*, *.wsz*, *.tgz*, *.tar.gz*,  or *.tar.bz2*) or unarchived format.  BMP looks for skinfiles in ${prefix}/share/bmp/Skins, ~/.bmp/Skins, and locations specified by the **SKINSDIR** variable.

## KEYBINDINGS

Global keybindings for BMP:

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

- \~/.bmp/config

  Users' BMP configuration.

- \~/.bmp/bmp.m3u

  Default playlist usually loaded on startup.

- \~/.bmp/gtkrc

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

- \~/.bmp/menurc

  Users set of keybindings.

- \~/.bmp/Skins, ${prefix}/share/bmp/Skins

  Default locations where BMP should look for skinfiles.

- \~/.bmp/Plugins

  Location of user installed plugins.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **SKINSDIR**

  Colon separated list of paths where BMP 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 BMP is at http://beepmp.sourceforge.net.  Here you can find info about BMP, download the latest version, plugins, and skins.