Keyboard & shortcuts

Oscine ships a fixed set of shortcuts. They aren't rebindable in this release. The complete list lives under About → Keyboard shortcuts; the essentials are here. On a Mac keyboard, read Ctrl as ⌘ throughout — the app honors both.

The command palette

Ctrl+K opens the palette over the whole app. Type freely, or lead with a prefix to narrow it to one kind of thing:

Ctrl+F jumps straight into the palette's search, and Esc closes it. See Quick access for what the palette reaches and the Quick Menu beside it.

Playback

Space stands down while you're typing in a field or when a button is focused, so it never fires playback out from under a click.

Navigation

Zen mode is fullscreen with the chrome hidden; the same key toggles it back, and leaving fullscreen any other way drops out of it too.

Media keys

Your keyboard's media keys — play/pause, next, previous — control Oscine through the operating system, so they work even when the window isn't focused or is behind another app. Oscine appears in the OS now-playing controls the same way: the Windows media card and the Linux (MPRIS) media widget both drive it.

Double-click

What a double-click does to a song is yours to set — play it now, play it next, add it to the queue, or add it to the open playlist. Enter on the focused row does the same thing. A separate setting covers double-clicking an artist or album, so a whole record can behave differently from a single track. Choose both in Interface settings.