1 .TH "ncmpc" "1" "June 2005" "" ""
2 .SH "NAME"
3 ncmpc \- curses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client.
4 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
5 .B ncmpc
6 [options]
7 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
8 ncmpc is a client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon.
9 ncmpc connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local
10 network.
12 By default, ncmpc connects to localhost:6600.
13 This can be changed either at compile\-time, or by exporting the
14 MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables, or by the command line
15 options \-\-host and \-\-port.
17 $ ncmpc \-\-host=musicserver \-\-port=44000
19 To use a password with mpd, set MPD_HOST to password@host
20 or use the command line option \-\-password. Values from
21 the command line overrides values from the environment.
23 Read more about MPD on http://www.musicpd.org
25 .SH "OPTIONS"
26 .TP
27 .B \-?, \-\-help
28 Display help.
29 .TP
30 .B \-V, \-\-version
31 Display version information.
32 .TP
33 .B \-c, \-\-colors
34 Enable colors.
35 .TP
36 .B \-C, \-\-no\-colors
37 Disable colors.
38 .TP
39 .B \-e, \-\-exit
40 Exit on connection errors. The default is to reconnect.
41 .TP
42 .B \-h, \-\-host=HOSTNAME
43 Specify MPD host.
44 .TP
45 .B \-p, \-\-port=PORT
46 Connect to server on PORT.
47 .TP
48 .B \-P, \-\-password=PASSWORD
49 Use password when connecting.
50 .TP
51 .B \-f, \-\-config=FILE
52 Read configuration from file.
53 .TP
54 .B \-P, \-\-key\-file=FILE
55 Read key bindings from FILE.
56 .TP
57 .B \-P, \-\-no\-splash=FILE
58 Disable the splash screen.
59 .TP
60 Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
61 .SH "CONFIGURATION"
62 When ncmpc start it tries to read user setting from the ~/.ncmpc/config. If no user configuration is found ncmpc tries to load global settings from $SYSCONFDIR/ncmpc/config (the actual path is displayed on the help screen). An example configuration file (config.sample) should be provided with ncmpc.
64 Base colors are: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white.
66 Possible text colors are the base colors plus grey, brightred, brightgreen, brightyellow, brightblue, brightmagenta, brightcyan and brightwhite.
69 Supported configuration options:
70 .TP
71 .B auto\-center = yes|no
72 Enable/disable auto center mode. When auto center mode is enabled
73 ncmpc centers the current track in the playlist window.
74 .TP
75 .B wide\-cursor = yes|no
76 Make the cursor as wide as the screen.
77 .TP
78 .B hide\-cursor = NUM
79 Hide the playlist cursor after NUM seconds of inactivity.
80 .TP
81 .B wrap\-around = yes|no
82 Wrapped cursor movement.
83 .TP
84 .B find\-wrap = yes|no
85 Wrapped find mode.
86 .TP
87 .B audible\-bell = yes|no
88 Sound audible bell on alerts.
89 .TP
90 .B visible\-bell = yes|no
91 Visible bell on alerts.
92 .TP
93 .B crossfade\-time = CROSSFADE TIME
94 Default crossfade time in Seconds
95 .TP
96 .B scroll = yes|no
97 Scroll the title if it is too long for the screen.
98 .TP
99 .B scroll\-sep = STRING
100 The separator to show at the end of the scrolling title.
101 .TP
102 .B seek\-time = NUM
103 Seek forward/backward by NUM seconds.
104 .TP
105 .B list\-format = SONG FORMAT
106 The format used to display songs in the main window.
107 .TP
108 .B status\-format = SONG FORMAT
109 The format used to display songs on the status line.
110 .TP
111 .B host = HOST
112 Connect to mpd running on specified host
113 .TP
114 .B port = PORT
115 Connect to mpd on the specified port
116 .TP
117 .B set\-xterm\-title = yes|no
118 Change the XTerm title (ncmpc will not restore the title).
119 .TP
120 .B lyrics\-timeout = NUM
121 Quits downloading lyrics of a song after the timeout of NUM seconds is reached.
122 .TP
123 .B xterm\-title\-format = SONG FORMAT
124 The format used to for the xterm title when ncmpc is playing.
125 .TP
126 .B enable\-colors = yes|no
127 Enable/disable colors.
128 .TP
129 .B show\-splash = yes|no
130 Show/hide the splash screen.
131 .TP
132 .B color background = COLOR
133 Set the background color. If the background color is assigned to the keyword \fBnone\fR, ncmpc will not change the background color. Only the base colors are valid background colors.
134 .TP
135 .B color title = TEXTCOLOR
136 Set the text color for the title row.
137 .TP
138 .B timedisplay-type = elapsed/remaining
139 Sets whether to display remaining or elapsed time in the status window. Default is elapsed.
140 .TP
141 .B color title\-bold = TEXTCOLOR
142 Set the text color for the title row (the bold part).
143 .TP
144 .B color line = TEXTCOLOR
145 Set the color of the line on the second row.
146 .TP
147 .B color line\-flags = TEXTCOLOR
148 Set the text color used to indicate mpd flags on the second row.
149 .TP
150 .B color list = TEXTCOLOR
151 Set the text color in the main area of ncmpc.
152 .TP
153 .B color list\-bold = TEXTCOLOR
154 Set the bold text color in the main area of ncmpc.
155 .TP
156 .B color progressbar = TEXTCOLOR
157 Set the color of the progress indicator.
158 .TP
159 .B color status\-state = TEXTCOLOR
160 Set the text color used to display mpd status in the status window.
161 .TP
162 .B color status\-song = TEXTCOLOR
163 Set the text color used to display song names in the status window.
164 .TP
165 .B color status\-time = TEXTCOLOR
166 Set the text color used to display time the status window.
167 .TP
168 .B color alert = TEXTCOLOR
169 Text color used to display alerts in the status window.
170 .TP
171 .B colordef COLOR = R, G, B
172 Redefine any of the base colors. The RGB values must be an integer value between 0 and 1000.
173 \fBNote\fR: Only some terminals allow redefinitions of colors!
174 .SH "KEYS"
175 When ncmpc start it tries to read user key bindings from the ~/.ncmpc/keys file. If no user key bindings is found ncmpc tries to load global key bindings from $SYSCONFDIR/ncmpc/keys (the actual path is displayed on the help screen).
177 You can view ncmpc's key bindings by pressing '1' (help) when
178 ncmpc is running. To edit key bindings use the key editor in ncmpc (press 'K').
179 .SH "SONG FORMAT"
180 Format of song display for status and the list window.
181 The metadata delimeters are: %name%, %artist%, %track%, %time%, %file%, %shortfile%.
183 The [] operators is used to group output such that if no metadata delimeters are found or matched between '[' and ']', then none of the characters between '[' and ']' are outputed. '&' and '|' are logical operators for and and or. '#' is used to escape characters.
185 Some useful examples for format are:
187 "%file%"
189 and
191 "[[%artist% \- ]%title%]|[%file]"
192 .SH "BUGS"
193 Report bugs on http://www.musicpd.org/mantis/
194 .SH "NOTE"
195 Since MPD uses UTF\-8, ncmpc needs to convert characters to the
196 charset used by the local system. If you get character conversion errors when your running ncmpc you probably need to set up your locale. This is done by setting any of the LC_CTYPE, LANG or LC_ALL enviroment variables (LC_CTYPE only affects character handling).
198 .SH "SEE ALSO"
199 mpc(1), mpd(1), locale(5), locale(7)