YATM(1)

🌸 YATM(1) — the manual, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this is the page for yatm, from the General Commands Manual. Yes, the title up top literally says YATM(1) — that's just the manpage flexing its own name. We move.

✨ NAME ✨

yatm — Yet Another Time Machine 🕰️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

yatm [options] file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: yatm plays Vorbis, Speex and MPEG audio files, and it lets you pick a whole new tempo without changing the pitch. Like. The speed changes, the voice doesn't get chipmunky. It's giving sorcery, fr fr 🔥

You can control the tempo interactively, live, mid-vibe:

• Press + or - to increment and decrement the playback tempo by 1 percent respectively. Little baby steps, one percent at a time 💅
• Press q to stop playback. Rip bozo, song over 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

yatm accepts the following options:

• -b — begin playing at time, given as an offset from the beginning of the file (0:00:00). Skip the intro, we're not waiting around ⏩
• -e — stop after duration seconds of audio have been decoded. A little time limit, a little snack-sized listen 🍓
• -t — specify the initial tempo as a floating point value; 1.0 is the default. This is the starting speed, bestie 🏁
• -q — inhibit usual output. Quiet mode, shhh, no yapping 🤫
• -s — transpose semitones. Key change energy 🎹✨
• -c — transpose cents. Same energy, but tiny. Micro-tuning, iykyk 🧚
• -v, --verbose — print more information. Gimme the lore 📖
• -h, --help — show summary of options. Help me help you 🫶
• -V, --version — show version of program. Which yatm are we even running 👑

no cap warning: the tempo keys are +, - and q — those three, exactly those, don't come for me if you mash something else 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org> 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌈 This lil gem is dated June 7, 2004 and it lives under YATM(1) — so yeah, we're reading a manual page older than most of our faves, and it's still iconic. Periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅