CLI Music Seek

ed music seek

Jumps to a point in the current track, as a fraction of its length.

ed music seek <position> [--json]

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
position	number from 0 to 1	required	Where to jump to, as a fraction of the track.
--json	flag	off	Emit JSON on stdout.

{
  "position": 0.5
}

ed music seek 0
ed music seek 0.5
ed music seek 0.9 --json

The human line truncates to a whole percentage: seeked to 50%, and 0.999 prints as 99%. A position outside 0 to 1 exits 2 with position must be between 0 and 1, and that check runs before the app check, so a bad number fails the same way whether or not Edith is running.

This is the seek bar in the Music footer and it only drives Edith's own player. There is no --player, and no way to seek Spotify or Apple Music from here. With the menu bar app closed it exits 4.

Where to go next

• ed music, the rest of this group
• All ed commands