BMPx(13 September 2005)

NAME
BMPx - Audio Player

SYNOPSIS
bmpx [--no-log] [--no-ui] [--no-remote] [--daemon]

DESCRIPTION
BMPx is an audio player that can be either used with a built-in frontend which currently utilizes Winamp 2.x compatible skins, or as a daemon for other frontends to connect via a DBus interface. It can run under X11 with graphical GUIs, or without X under plain UNIX terminal as a daemon (in which case it requires a different frontend connecting to it via DBus).

OPTIONS

--no-log
    Disables writing of log messages to the logfile (default location of the log file is $HOME/.bmpx/log), and writes messages to standard output instead.

--no-ui
    Starts with the UI disabled. The UI can be started afterwards using the DBus interface, or a different frontend can connect trough DBus to take control over BMPx (although this is also possible while the main UI is running as well).

--no-remote
    Disables the DBus remote interface. BMPx can then be only controlled trough it's main, built-in GUI. Note that while it is possible to specify both --no-remote and --no-ui, it is obviously not very useful, since the player will run as a daemon, but will be at the same time not user-controllable by any means.

--daemon
    Run BMPx as a daemon. This implies --no-ui, means the UI is not being initialized as well (Though it can be started at a later point using the DBus interface)

NOTES
When using --no-ui or --daemon, BMPx does not require to be connected to an X11 server. This means you can run bmpx with --daemon or --no-ui under simple plain console, and use some other client than the default GUI to control it and play music with it.

FILES/PATHS

~/.bmpx/log
    Log file, to which all messages are written unless --no-log is used.

~/.bmpx/config.xml
    Users' BMPx XML configuration.

~/.bmpx/playlists
    Default directory for playlists storage.

~/.bmpx/skins, ${prefix}/share/bmp/Skins
    Default locations where BMPx will look for skins.

USING SKINS
BMPx supports Winamp 2.x compatible skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) or unarchived format (as a decompressed directory). BMP looks for skins in ${prefix}/share/bmpx/skins, $HOME/.bmpx/skins.

OTHER INFO
The BMPx web site is http://beep-media-player.org There you can find information about BMPx, download the latest version, skins, and get help.