DBCAT(1)

📦 version 0.9.8, in ubuntu jammy

💖 DBCAT(1) 💖

the Unix manual page for dbcat, straight out of the General Commands Manual bestie ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dbcat — send audio data to the DB Fourier Synthesis daemon 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dbcat [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so dbcat is literally the easiest way to feed audio data into dbfsd 🫶 both of these programs are part of the DBMix project, which is a whole digital audio mixing system, iconic honestly 👑

and here's the thing: dbcat takes its input data from standard input only — no files, no nothing. so bestie, you're usually gonna run it inside a pipe with some other program that generates sound 💅 that's the whole vibe.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -8 — input data is made of PCM-coded 8bit unsigned samples. (default: 16bit signed samples, iykyk)
  • -c n — connect to channel n of dbfsd. (default: whatever the first available channel is 🌈)
  • -d — print debug messages to the console. (default: debugging is off, lowkey silent)
  • -h — print a summary of the available options, no cap
  • -m — input data is a mono stream. (default: interleaved stereo stream 🎧)
  • -r rate — input data is sampled at rate Hertz. (default: 44100Hz ⭐)
  • -v — print version information. (default: no version info at all)
  • -S — produce an endless stream of blank audio data (aka silence 🕊️). any input data just gets dropped. this mode gives you a dummy source that's genuinely useful for testing and debugging. (default: pass on the input data)
fr fr if you need a fake lil audio source to poke at things, -S is your girl. silence is a valid personality 💀

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

mpg321 -s test.mp3 | dbcat

sends a 16bit/44.1kHz stereo audio stream, decoded from test.mp3, off to dbfsd 🔥 ate that

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dbin(1), dbfsd(1), dbmixer(1), dbmix(7) — go read those too bestie, they're all connected 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others 🫶). it is heavily based on DBMix's README file, written by Robert Michael S Dean. absolute legends, both of them ✨

and that's the whole page!! this version is from August 6, 2002, and the source is DBCAT(1) — mwah, go pipe some audio, ily 💖🎀🦋

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