[148] | 1 | .\" RoarAudio |
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[4613] | 2 | .TH "RoarAudio" "7" "November 2010" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido" |
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[148] | 3 | |
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| 4 | .SH NAME |
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[4613] | 5 | RoarAudio \- RoarAudio sound system and package |
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[148] | 6 | |
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| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | \fBroard\fR [OPTIONS]... |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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[4613] | 12 | \fBRoarAudio\fR is a modern, multi-OS, network transparent sound system. |
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| 13 | It supports a large amount of features required for home and professional usage. |
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| 14 | Its main purpose is to connect software (like media players) and devices (like soundcards) as a mid-layer adding features you expect from a modern sound system like software mixing and full network transparency. |
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| 16 | RoarAudio can also be used to connect multiple software components. An example for such a setup is a common webradio setup where the used playback software is connected to a streaming server in addition to a local soundcard. RoarAudio has special features for such setups like meta data passing. |
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[148] | 17 | |
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| 18 | .SH "MAIN FEATURES" |
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[4613] | 19 | * fully network transparent. Network support for UNIX Domain Sockets, TCP/IP and DECnet |
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| 20 | * multiple audio streams per client |
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| 21 | * Vorbis comments like meta data for each audio stream |
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| 22 | * support for "legacy" clients via libroaresd, libroararts, libroaryiff |
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| 23 | * support for PulseAudio and OpenBSD's sndio clients via libroarpulse and libroarsndio |
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| 24 | * supported by many media players and other sound using applications! |
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| 25 | * mixing clients at individual levels like an analog mixer |
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| 26 | * server and client side support for common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and many more |
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| 27 | * support for 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit per sample. Mixer resolution up to 64 bit |
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[148] | 28 | * and many more... |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | .SH "BUGS" |
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| 31 | A lot... |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 34 | \fBroar-config\fR(1), |
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| 35 | \fBroarcat\fR(1), |
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| 36 | \fBroarctl\fR(1), |
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| 37 | \fBroarfilt\fR(1), |
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| 38 | \fBroarfish\fR(1), |
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| 39 | \fBroarmon\fR(1), |
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| 40 | \fBroartypes\fR(1), |
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| 41 | \fBroarvorbis\fR(1), |
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| 42 | \fBroard\fR(1), |
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[545] | 43 | \fBroartips\fR(7), |
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[148] | 44 | \fBlibroar\fR(7). |
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| 46 | .SH "HISTORY" |
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| 47 | Project started in mid of 2008. |
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| 48 | |
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[4613] | 49 | Milestones: |
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| 50 | 2008-08-31 First offical release (v. 0.1) |
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| 51 | 2009-02-04 First release of the new trunk for 0.2 (v. 0.2beta0) |
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| 52 | With this release the version schema was changed. |
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| 53 | 2009-05-21 Release of version 0.2 |
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| 54 | 2009-09-06 First commercal use (roarphone, v. 0.3beta0) |
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| 55 | 2010-06-11 New pre-release based release-cycle was introduced to improve release quality |
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| 56 | 2010-08-22 Release of version 0.3 |
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[148] | 58 | .\"ll |
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