rhythmbox(1) User Commands rhythmbox(1)NAMErhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME
SYNOPSISrhythmbox [--debug] [--debug-match=string] [--dry-run] [--no-registra‐
tion] [--no-update] [--playlists-file=file] [--quit] [--rhythmdb-
file=file] [gnome-std-options] [gst-std-options] URI
DESCRIPTIONrhythmbox is an integrated music playing and management application. It
is designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop and based on the pow‐
erful GStreamer media framework to support a wide range of audio for‐
mats (including mp3 and ogg). Note that you may need to purchase and
install additional plugins to support some formats.
rhythmbox features a flexible plugin system which can be used to dynam‐
ically add new advanced features to rhythmbox.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-d, --debug
Enable debug output.
-D, --debug-match=string
Enable debug output matching a specified string.
--dry-run
Do not save any data permanently (implies --no-registration).
-n, --no-registration
Do not register the shell.
--no-update
Do not update the library with file changes.
--playlists-file=file
Path for playlists file to use.
-q, --quit
Quit Rhythmbox.
--rhythmdb-file=file
Path for database file to use.
gnome-std-options
Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.
See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
gst-std-options
Standard options available for use with most GStreamer applica‐
tions. See gst-std-options(5) for more information.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI The name of the URI to be played.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/rhythmbox
Executable for rhythmbox
/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins
Location of rhythmbox plugins.
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rhythmbox
Location of developer documentation for writing a rhythmbox plugin.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │gnome/media/gnome-media-player │
├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOgst-launch(1), rhythmbox-client(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-
options(5), gst-std-options(5)NOTES
Written Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.
SunOS 5.11 03 Dec 2007 rhythmbox(1)