| 1 | .\" RoarAudio |
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| 2 | .TH "roartips" "7" "August 2008" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido" |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | .SH NAME |
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| 5 | roartips \- Tips for RoarAudio users |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | roard [OPTIONS...] ... |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | roarclient [OPTIONS...] ... |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
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| 14 | This manpage lists some tips for intermedia to advanced users of RoarAudio. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | .SH "CONTROLLING ROARD" |
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| 17 | RoarAudio supports a lot of things you can change on the fly. |
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| 18 | This includes the volume for each stream as you may allready noticed: |
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| 19 | If you cange the volume within a player only this stream is changed, other streams |
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| 20 | keep there loudness. There a a lot other things that can be changed on the fly. |
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| 21 | To do this there is a tool called \fBroarctl\fR(1). You may want to play around a bit |
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| 22 | with it. A good start are to try those two commands: |
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| 23 | roarctl --help |
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| 24 | roarctl allinfo |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | The later one will show you all information current available of the server it self, |
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| 27 | the clients and the streams. This may include a lot of informations. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | .SH "SERVER ADDRESS" |
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| 30 | There a serverel types of server addresses based on the protocoll used to communicate. |
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| 31 | This lists the corrently implemented types in order of importance: |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | .TP |
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| 34 | \fB/path/to/sock\fR |
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| 35 | Path to UNIX Domain Socket. |
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| 36 | Example: |
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| 37 | /tmp/roar |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | .TP |
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| 40 | \fBhost\fR, \fBhost:port\fR |
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| 41 | This is used for connections over TCP/IP. |
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| 42 | If port is omitted the default port is used. |
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| 43 | Examples: |
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| 44 | audio.homeserver.local |
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| 45 | localhost:7564 |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | .TP |
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| 48 | \fBnode::\fR, \fBnode::object\fR, \fB::object\fR, \fB::\fR |
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| 49 | This is the way to specify a DECnet connection to node \fBnode\fR's |
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| 50 | object \fBobject\fR. Both may be omitted to use defaults. Default |
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| 51 | node name is local hosts node name. |
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| 52 | Examples: |
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| 53 | mynode:: |
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| 54 | ::roar |
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| 55 | yournode::yourroard |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | .TP |
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| 58 | \fB+fork\fR |
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| 59 | This starts a new roard for every \fBroar_connect\fR(3). |
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| 60 | This is used internaly by the lib to emulate EsounD's |
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| 61 | fallback. |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | .SH "ENVIRONMENT" |
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| 64 | .TP |
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| 65 | \fBROAR_SERVER\fR |
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| 66 | This varibale contains the default server address. If some client does not |
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| 67 | allow a user to set a server address or to set a default value this one |
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| 68 | come into play. Examples: |
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| 69 | ROAR_SERVER=some.host |
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| 70 | ROAR_SERVER=another.host:port |
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| 71 | ROAR_SERVER=node:: |
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| 72 | ROAR_SERVER=/tmp/roar |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 75 | \fBroarcat\fR(1), |
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| 76 | \fBroarctl\fR(1), |
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| 77 | \fBroarfilt\fR(1), |
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| 78 | \fBroarfish\fR(1), |
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| 79 | \fBroarmon\fR(1), |
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| 80 | \fBroarvorbis\fR(1), |
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| 81 | \fBroard\fR(1), |
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| 82 | \fBlibroar\fR(7). |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | .\"ll |
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