TIMEMACHINE:(1)

✨ TIMEMACHINE:(1) — User Commands ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for timemachine 💖 she's a little command-line queen and she's here to record your audio, periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

timemachine: — manual page for timemachine

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Here's the vibe, bestie — this is how you run her:

Usage /usr/bin/timemachine: [-h] [-i] [-c channels] [-n jack-name]

       [-t buffer-length] [-p file prefix] [-f format] [-a] [-b
       begin-threshold] [-e end-threshold] [-T end-time] [port-name ...]

And here's every single flag, no gatekeeping, we're going through ALL of them:

• -h — show this help. literally just the help text, queen of being helpful 💅
• -i — interactive mode, which means console instead of X11. and plot twist: it's also enabled automatically if DISPLAY is unset 🫶
• -c — specify number of recording channels
• -n — specify the JACK name timemachine will use
• -t — specify the pre-recording buffer length
• -p — specify the saved file prefix, and yes it may include a path 🎀
• -s — use safer characters in filename (windows compatibility) 🙈
• -f — specify the saved file format
• -a — enable automatic sound-triggered recording ✨
• -b — specify threshold above which automatic recording will begin
• -e — specify threshold below which automatic recording will end
• -T — specify silence length before automatic recording ends

🎀 the defaults, bestie (memorize these fr fr)

• channels must be in the range 1-8, default 2
• jack-name, default "TimeMachine"
• file-prefix, default "tm-"
• buffer-length, default 10 secs
• format, default 'w64', options: wav, w64
• begin-threshold, default -35.0 dB
• end-threshold, default -35.0 dB
• end-time, default 10 secs

🚨 important lore: specifying port names to connect to on the command line overrides -c. the port names win, no cap. 💀

that's the whole page, you ate it 💅💖 stay iconic, go record something legendary. this was timemachine, from February 2011, and you were just reading the TIMEMACHINE:(1) page 🦋🌈⭐