beep-media-player(1)

Usage

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] ...

Overview

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.