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  • Playlists are plain text files and can be edited by hand; they recide in $HOME/.config/chipmachine/playlists
  • You can show hits from only a single collection by toggling a collection filter. Either use CTRL-I to use the collection of the currently playing song, or type \<name> to toggle by name (ie \hvsc followed by SPACE to show only music from the High Voltage Sid Collection
  • You can edit lua/screen.lua if you want to change font, colors or layout of the main screen.
  • Use TAB to toggle the command screen, which shows all available commands. Type letters to filter out commands, just like on the search screen.
  • You can start chipmachine in telnet mode with the -X argument. Now you can telnet to port 12345 for a simple graphical text interface. You can connect several peers, and it even works from a C=64!
  • You can press CTRL-D to copy the current song to your Downloads directory.
  • There are several shuffle commands that creates random playlists from a given composer, given collection, given format etc. Check the command screen.
  • For available shoutcast radio stations (like Scenesat) search for SHOUTCAST.
  • The scroll text will show relevant meta data; STIL info for HVSC songs, Comments for MP3s, RSS meta data for Podcasts, Instrument names for MODS etc.
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