N:aRC 0.6 review

N:aRC is comes from Nec's Amarok Remote Control and is a shell script, which allows the (remote) controlling of amarok per ssh.

License: Public Domain File size: 0K Developer: Necoro d.M.

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N:aRC is comes from Nec's Amarok Remote Control and is a shell script, which allows the (remote) controlling of amarok per ssh.

It is mainly a wrapper for the amarok DCOP functions, but also simplifies the ssh process.

It is possible to run it with keyboard shortcuts.

Usage: $0 [Options] < Command >

--help, -h Prints this help message
--version, -v Prints the version information

Options could be one or more of the following:

--host, -H Sets the host to connect to
--user, -u Sets the user as which to connect
< user >@< host > Same as "-H < host > -u < user >"
--remove, -r Removes the authorization file afterwards
--append, -a Append the authorization file to the existing one and do not replace it

Command could be one of the following:

add < DIR > Adds DIR to current playlist
create < DIR > Creates new playlist from DIR
play, p (Re)starts playing
pause, p Pauses playing
stop, s Stops playing
stopafter, f Stops after current song
next, n Goes to next item in playlist
prev, e Goes to previous item in playlist
current, c Prints currently playing song
random, r < on/off > Sets random mode on/off
volume, v < X > Sets volume to X %
volumeup, vu [n] Increases volume by n reasonable steps. (n defaults to 1)
volumedown, vd [n] Decreases volume by n reasonable steps. (n defaults to 1)

What's New in This Release:
This release adds a new command line option that is useful with keyboard shortcuts.