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1.\" RoarAudio
2.TH "libroar" "7" "July 2008" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido"
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4.SH NAME
5libroar \- RoarAudio sound library
6
7.SH SYNOPSIS
8
9 #include <roaraudio.h>
10
11.SH "DESCRIPTION"
12\fBlibroar\fR is the central library used to comunicate with the roard.
13It suppots all commands from simple commands to play some audio up to complex commands
14to controll the server and do nice things over the network.
15
16
17.SH "EXAMPLES"
18The basic tools shiped with RoarAudio are designed to also work as examples for the lib.
19You may start by looking at \fBroarcat\fR(1)s source code as an example on how to simply play back
20some audio. A more complex example is \fBroarvorbis\fR(1) which also includes meta data updates.
21
22.SH "TUTORIALS"
23Tutorials can be found in \fBroartut\fR(7).
24
25.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
26The following variables are used in libroar itself so they are common to all clients
27using libroar.
28
29.TP
30\fBHOME\fR
31The users home directory.
32
33.TP
34\fBROAR_SERVER\fR
35The address of the listening server. This may be in form of host:port for TCP/IP connections
36and /path/to/sock for UNIX Domain Sockets. If a value of '+fork' is given a roard is forked and used.
37This roard will not listen on any sockets so it is used exclusiv by this client. See \fBroard\fR(1) for
38more information.
39
40.TP
41\fBROAR_PROXY\fR
42Set the type of the proxy being used to connect to the server.
43The only valid value at the moment is 'socks4a'. Note that this is incompatible
44with SOCKS4 like OpenSSH supports it.
45
46.TP
47\fBsocks_proxy\fR
48The SOCKS4/4a/5 proxy to use in form host:port.
49
50
51.SH "BUGS"
52A lot...
53
54.SH "SEE ALSO"
55\fBroar-config\fR(1),
56\fBroartypes\fR(1),
57\fBroartut\fR(7),
58\fBroard\fR(1),
59\fBRoarAudio\fR(7).
60
61.SH "HISTORY"
62Project started in mid of 2008.
63
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