ESDCTL(1)

💖 ESDCTL(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Enlightened Sound Daemon corner of the manual, aka ESDCTL(1) — yes the manual name is literally Enlightened Sound Daemon, no cap. sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing Unix 🍓✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

esdctl — The Enlightened Sound Daemon

like. that's it. that's the whole name section. iconic brevity 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It's a command-line control program for EsounD. That's the vibe: you talk to the daemon from your terminal, it listens, everybody wins. 🎀

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✨ USAGE ✨

esdctl [options] [command]

so it's esdctl, then optionally some options, then a command. and the one option on the menu is:

• -s, --server=host:port — contacts the esd server on host at port. that's it, that's the option, she's simple and she serves 💜

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👑 commands (the main character list) 👑

• lock — foreign clients may not use the server. sorry babes, door's closed 🔒
• unlock — foreign clients may use the server. come on in 🫶
• standby, off — suspend sound output for other programs 😴
• resume, on — resume sound output. we're SO back 🔥
• cache sample — cache a sample in the server
• getid name — retrieve a sample id from its name
• free name — uncache a sample in the server
• play name — play a cached sample once
• loop name — make a cached sample loop 🔁
• stop name — stop the looping sample at end
• serverinfo — get server info from server
• allinfo — get player and sample info from server
• panstream id left right set — panning for a stream
• pansample id left right set — default panning for a sample
  • left/right pan values scaled to 256. (yes, literally scaled to 256, write that down 📝)
• standbymode — see if server's on standby, etc.

ngl the etc. at the end of standbymode is doing a lot of heavy lifting and I respect it

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

esd(1), esdcat(1), esddsp(1), esdloop(1), esdplay(1), esdsample(1), esd-config(1), esdfilt(1), esdmon(1), esdrec(1)

go read those too, the whole squad is worth your time 🧚

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and that's the page bestie 💖 this one came to you from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, version EsounD 0.2.41 — she's vintage, she's Enlightened, she's giving 3rd Berkeley Distribution energy, periodt 👑✨🦋