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<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p><a href="#overview">Overview</a><br/>
<a href="#parts">Main parts of the interface</a><br/>
<a href="#faq">FAQ</a><br/>
<a href="#shortcuts">Shortcuts</a><br/></p>
<p><b><a name="overview">Overview</a></b></p>
<p>Sonata is designed to be an elegant and intuitive interface
for your music collection via the Music Player Daemon
(MPD). Most actions are accessed through right-click popup
menus. The main window can be collapsed into a <em>mini</em>
view or expanded by clicking on the current song (with
the <tt>></tt> sign next to it).
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<p>In the expanded view, the tabbed interface includes your
current playlist, info about the current song, your library
(browse by folders, genres, artists, or albums), your saved
playlists, and any streams (pls/m3u supported). You can
reorder the tabs by drag-and-dropping, and hide any of them
via a popup menu.
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<p><b><a name="parts">Main parts of the interface</a></b></p>
<p><em>For the quickest access, see
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<dt>Album art</dt>
<dd>Via a popup menu here, you can choose a remote or local
image file, or go to a fullscreen album art view.
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<dt>Playback controls</dt>
<dd>Sonata relays your playback commands to MPD. You can
seek within the current track by clicking on the progress
bar. The target of the volume control is set in the MPD
configuration file.
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<dt>Preferences</dt>
<dd>You can go through the settings here to customize Sonata
to your liking. You can also add connection profiles for
remote MPD servers, as well as activate audioscrobbling
(<a href="http://last.fm/">Last.fm</a>) support, track
cross-fading in MPD, and a now-playing status file.
</dd>
<dt>Current tab</dt>
<dd>MPD plays the songs from this current playlist. You can
add tracks from the library, playlists, or streams. You
can save the tracks into a playlist as well.
Pressing <tt>/</tt> (or simply starting to type)
brings up a text filter for the tracks.
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<dt>Info tab</dt>
<dd>Info about the currently playing track contains song
tags, album info, and lyrics.
</dd>
<dt>Library tab</dt>
<dd>This is the library of your music files that MPD knows
about. The top folder is set in the MPD configuration
file, and you can use the Update command in the popup menu
to make MPD check for changes. If the files are local, you
can open the tag editor here.<br />
By clicking the icon on the
bottom-left, you can choose to browse the library starting
from the top folder, or from a list of genres, artists, or
albums. By choosing the type of search on the
bottom-center and typing into the text field on the
bottom-right, you can search for tracks.
</dd>
<dt>Playlists tab</dt>
<dd>MPD has a folder of playlists. You can rename and delete
existing playlists here.
</dd>
<dt>Streams tab</dt>
<dd>Sonata keeps a list of Internet streams for you. You can
manage the entries here. The name you can choose freely,
the stream URL should either point directly to a stream
that MPD can play or to an m3u/pls document that lists
such streams.
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<dt>Tray status icon</dt>
<dd>The status icon on the system tray (if your desktop
environment provides one in its panels) lets you show and
hide the main window of Sonata with a mouse click. The
scroll wheel controls volume here. The popup menu includes
playback controls as well as the command for quitting
Sonata.
</dd>
<dt>Tag editor</dt>
<dd>You can select single or multiple files in the Current
and Library tabs and edit their metadata tags within Sonata,
if they are local files.
</dd>
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<p><b><a name="faq">FAQ</a></b></p>
<p>Frequently asked questions and answers about Sonata are kept at
the <a href="http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Client:Sonata/FAQ">MPD
wiki page Client:Sonata/FAQ</a>.</p>
<p><b><a name="shortcuts">Shortcuts</a></b></p>
<p>Note: This list can also be found by going to About > Shortcuts.</p>
<p> <u>Main Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>F1</b>: About Sonata<br/>
<b>F5</b>: Preferences<br/>
<b>F11</b>: Fullscreen Artwork Mode<br/>
<b>Alt-[1-5]</b>: Switch to [1st-5th] tab<br/>
<b>Alt-C</b>: Connect to MPD<br/>
<b>Alt-D</b>: Disconnect from MPD<br/>
<b>Alt-R</b>: Randomize current playlist<br/>
<b>Alt-Down</b>: Expand player<br/>
<b>Alt-Left</b>: Switch to previous tab<br/>
<b>Alt-Right</b>: Switch to next tab<br/>
<b>Alt-Up</b>: Collapse player<br/>
<b>Ctrl-H</b>: Search library<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Q</b>: Quit<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-U</b>: Update entire library<br/>
<b>Menu</b>: Display popup menu<br/>
<b>Escape</b>: Minimize to system tray (if enabled)<br/></p>
<p> <u>Playback Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Left</b>: Previous track<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Right</b>: Next track<br/>
<b>Ctrl-P</b>: Play/Pause<br/>
<b>Ctrl-S</b>: Stop<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Minus</b>: Lower the volume<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Plus</b>: Raise the volume<br/></p>
<p> <u>Current Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Alt-R</b>: Randomize list<br/>
<b>Enter/Space</b>: Play selected song<br/>
<b>Delete</b>: Remove selected song(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-I</b>: Center currently playing song<br/>
<b>Ctrl-T</b>: Edit selected song's tags<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-S</b>: Save playlist<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Delete</b>: Clear list<br/></p>
<p> <u>Library Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Enter/Space</b>: Add selected song(s) or enter directory<br/>
<b>Backspace</b>: Go to parent directory<br/>
<b>Ctrl-D</b>: Add selected song(s) or directory(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-R</b>: Replace with selected song(s) or directory(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-T</b>: Edit selected song's tags<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-D</b>: Add selected item(s) and play<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-R</b>: Replace with selected item(s) and play<br/>
<b>Ctrl-U</b>: Update selected item(s)/path(s)<br/></p>
<p> <u>Playlist Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Enter/Space</b>: Add selected playlist(s)<br/>
<b>Delete</b>: Remove selected playlist(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-D</b>: Add selected playlist(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-R</b>: Replace with selected playlist(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-D</b>: Add selected playlist(s) and play<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-R</b>: Replace with selected playlist(s) and play<br/></p>
<p> <u>Stream Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Enter/Space</b>: Add selected stream(s)<br/>
<b>Delete</b>: Remove selected stream(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-D</b>: Add selected stream(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-R</b>: Replace with selected stream(s)<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-D</b>: Add selected stream(s) and play<br/>
<b>Ctrl-Shift-R</b>: Replace with selected stream(s) and play<br/></p>
<p> <u>Info Shortcuts</u>:<br/>
<b>Ctrl-T</b>: Edit playing song's tags<br/></p>
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