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NAME

       listen - music player

SYNOPSIS

       listen

DESCRIPTION

       music player and manager.

       With  listen  you  can  import,  manage,  play  your  music collection,
       transfer  song  to  your  ipod,  download  podcast,  browser  shoutcast
       webradio directory

       When  you  play  a  song in listen, you have direct access to wikipedia
       information  about  artist,  album  or  track,   lyrics   and   last.fm
       information

       Listen  can  automatically  generate  playlist from many criteria, fill
       your current playing playlist with suggested song, search and  download
       cover from Internet

       After  set  the  directory  of your music library, if you add, remove a
       file or change metadata of a file in this  directory  listen  automatic
       update this own library database to display new information

OPTIONS

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -p, -a, --play
              play files

       -q, --queue
              queue files in the playlist

       --next play the next song in the playlist

       --previous
              play the previous song in the playlist

       --play-pause
              play or pause current playing media

       --rewind
              rewind the played song

       --forward
              forward the played song

       -c, --current-playing
              show current playing song

       -v VOLUME, --volume=VOLUME
              change volume (VOLUME 0.0-1.0)

       -d DEVICE, --device=DEVICE
              play a device

       --mimetype-support
              show information about supported audio file

       --dump-gstplayer-state
              Dump gstplayer state (for debugging purpose)

       --library-sanity-check
              Force a sanity check of the library

       --debug=DEBUG
              change debug level (0-9)

COPYRIGHT

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Abaakouk Mehdi Originally based on
       manual written by Gauvain Pocentek <gauvainpocentek@ubuntu.com> for the
       Debian  system  (but  may be used by others).  Permission is granted to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the
       Free Software Foundation.

                                  2009-03-25                         listen(1)