pianobar(1)

NAME
pianobar - console pandora.com music player

SYNOPSIS
pianobar

DESCRIPTION
pianobar is a lightweight console music player for the personalized online radio pandora.com.

FILES
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pianobar/config or ~/.config/pianobar/config
    Per-user configuration file. See CONFIGURATION.
/etc/libao.conf or ~/.libao
    Global/per-user audio output configuration. See libao documentation at http://xiph.org/ao/doc/config.html

CONFIGURATION
The configuration file consists of simple key = value lines. Each terminated with a newline (\n) character. Keys and values are both case sensitive. act_* keys control pianobar's key-bindings. Every one-byte character except for \x00 and the special value disabled are allowed here.

act_help = ?
    Show keybindings.

act_songlove = +
    Love currently played song.

act_songban = -
    Ban current track. It will not be played again and can only removed using the pandora.com web interface.

act_stationaddmusic = a
    Add more music to current station. You will be asked for a search string. Just follow the instructions. If you're clueless try '?' (without quotes).

act_bookmark = b
    Bookmark current song or artist.

act_stationcreate = c
    Create new station. You have to enter a search string and select the song or artist of your choice.

act_stationdelete = d
    Delete current station.

act_songexplain = e
    Explain why this song is played.

act_stationaddbygenre = g
    Add genre station provided by pandora.

act_history = h
    Show history.

act_songinfo = i
    Print information about currently played song/station.

act_addshared = j
    Add shared station by id. id is a very long integer without "sh" at the beginning.

act_managestation = =
    Delete artist/song seeds or feedback.

act_songmove = m
    Move current song to another station

act_songnext = n
    Skip current song.

act_songpause = p
    Pause/Continue

act_quit = q
    Quit pianobar.

act_stationrename = r
    Rename currently played station.

act_stationchange = s
    Select another station. The station list can be filtered like most lists by entering a search string instead of a station number.

act_songtired = t
    Ban song for one month.

act_upcoming = u
    Show next songs in playlist.

act_stationselectquickmix = x
    Select quickmix stations.

act_voldown = (
    Decrease volume.

act_volup = )
    Increase volume.

audio_format = {aacplus,mp3,mp3-hifi}
    Select audio format. aacplus is default if both libraries (faad, mad) are available. mp3-hifi is available for Pandora One customers only.

autostart_station = stationid
    Play this station when starting up. You can get the stationid by pressing i or the key you defined in act_songinfo.

ban_icon = </3
    Icon for banned songs.

control_proxy = http://user:password@host:port/
    Non-american users need a proxy to use pandora.com. Only the xmlrpc interface will use this proxy. The music is streamed directly.

event_command = path
    File that is executed when event occurs. See section EVENTCMD

format_nowplaying_song = "%t" by "%a" on "%l"%r%@%s
    Now playing song message format. Available format characters are: %t Song title %a Song artist %l Album name %r Rating icon (only love icon) %@ @-sign if station is quickmix %s Real station name if quickmix %u Song detail url

format_nowplaying_station = Station "%n" (%i)
    Now playing station format. Available format characters are: %n Station name %i Station id

format_msg_none = %s
format_msg_info = (i) %s
format_msg_nowplaying = |> %s
format_msg_time = # %s
format_msg_err = /!\\ %s
format_msg_question = [?] %s
format_msg_list = \t%s
    Message format strings. %s is replaced with the actual message.

history = 5
    Keep a history of the last n songs (5, by default). You can rate these songs.

love_icon = <3
    Icon for loved songs.

password = plaintext_password
    Your pandora.com password. Plain-text.

proxy = http://user:password@host:port/
    Use a http proxy. Note that this setting overrides the http_proxy environment variable. Only "Basic" http authentication is supported.

sort = {name_az, name_za, quickmix_01_name_az, quickmix_01_name_za, quickmix_10_name_az, quickmix_10_name_za}
    Sort station list by name or type (is quickmix) and name. name_az for example sorts by name from a to z, quickmix_01_name_za by type (quickmix at the bottom) and name from z to a.

user = your@user.name
    Your pandora.com username.

volume = 0
    Initial volume correction in dB. Usually between -30 and +5.

REMOTE CONTROL
pianobar can be controlled through a fifo. You have to create it yourself by executing
 mkfifo ~/.config/pianobar/ctl Adjust the path if you set up a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Afterwards you can write commands directly into the fifo. Example (next song):
 echo -n 'n' > ~/.config/pianobar/ctl n is the keybinding for "next song". If you customized your keybindings you have to use these characters to control pianobar. This behaviour may change in the future! Another example:
 while true; do;
    nc -l -p 12345 -s localhost localhost > ~/.config/pianobar/ctl;
    sleep 1;
 done
 echo -ne 'n\x1a' | nc -q 0 127.0.0.1 12345

EVENTCMD
pianobar can report certain "events" to an external application (see CONFIGURATION ). This application is started with the event name as it's first argument. More information like error code and description, was well as song information related to the current event, is supplied through stdin. Currently supported events are: artistbookmark, songban, songbookmark, songexplain, songfinish, songlove, songmove, songshelf, songstart, stationaddmusic, stationaddshared, stationcreate, stationdelete, stationdeleteartistseed, stationdeletefeedback, stationdeletesongseed, stationfetchinfo, stationfetchplaylist, stationquickmixtoggle, stationrename, userlogin, usergetstations An example script can be found in the contrib/ directory of pianobar's source distribution.

AUTHOR
Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>