AUINFO(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

auinfo — show information about a Network Audio System server

okay so this is a General Commands Manual page, section 1, bestie — aka one of those lil command-line tools you just run and vibe with 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

auinfo [-audio servername]

that's it. that's the whole thing. one optional flag. iconic behaviour honestly 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The auinfo program provides information describing a Network Audio System server. Like, it pulls up and tells you everything about the server you're talking to 🫶

It lists:

• the capabilities of the server
• the devices that are attached to it
• the data formats that are accepted
• any predefined sounds that have been stored in the server

basically a full vibe check on your audio server. no cap. 🌸

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

The following example shows the output produced by auinfo when connected to an NCD MCX(tm) display station:

Audio Server:           tcp/lemkemcx:8000
Version Number:         2.0
Vendor:                 Network Computing Devices Inc.
Vendor Release:         3000
Min Sample Rate:        1000
Max Sample Rate:        52000
Max Tracks:             32
Number of Formats:      7
Formats:                ULAW8  LinearUnsigned8  LinearSigned8
                        LinearSigned16MSB  LinearUnsigned16MSB
                        LinearSigned16LSB  LinearUnsigned16LSB
Number of Elem Types:   11
Element Types:          ImportClient  ImportDevice  ImportBucket  Bundle
                        MultiplyConstant  AddConstant  Sum  ExportClient
                        ExportDevice  ExportBucket  ExportMonitor
Number of Wave Forms:   0
Number of Actions:      2
Actions:                ChangeState  SendNotify
Number of Devices:      5
    Device 0:
        Changable:      Gain  LineMode
        ID:             0x34
        Kind:           PhysicalInput
        Use:            Import
        Format:         LinearSigned16MSB
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Import  List
        Description:    "Mono Channel Input"
        Min Rate:       1000
        Max Rate:       52000
        Location:       Left  Right  External
        Gain Percent:   15
        Line Mode:      High
    Device 1:
        Changable:      Gain
        ID:             0x32
        Kind:           PhysicalOutput
        Use:            Export
        Format:         LinearSigned16MSB
        Num Tracks:     2
        Access:         Export  List
        Description:    "Stereo Channel Output"
        Min Rate:       1000
        Max Rate:       52000
        Location:       Left  Right  External
        Gain Percent:   24
        Num Children:   2
        Children:       0x30 0x31
    Device 2:
        Changable:      Gain
        ID:             0x33
        Kind:           PhysicalOutput
        Use:            Export
        Format:         LinearSigned16MSB
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Export  List
        Description:    "Mono Channel Output"
        Min Rate:       1000
        Max Rate:       52000
        Location:       Left  Right  External
        Gain Percent:   24
        Num Children:   2
        Children:       0x30 0x31
    Device 3:
        Changable:      Gain
        ID:             0x31
        Kind:           PhysicalOutput
        Use:            Export
        Format:         LinearSigned16MSB
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Export  List
        Description:    "Right Channel Output"
        Min Rate:       1000
        Max Rate:       52000
        Location:       Right  External
        Gain Percent:   24
        Num Children:   0
    Device 4:
        Changable:      Gain
        ID:             0x30
        Kind:           PhysicalOutput
        Use:            Export
        Format:         LinearSigned16MSB
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Export  List
        Description:    "Left Channel Output"
        Min Rate:       1000
        Max Rate:       52000
        Location:       Left  External
        Gain Percent:   24
        Num Children:   0
Number of Buckets:      0
    Bucket 0:
        ID:             0x1400008
        Kind:           Bucket
        Use:            Import  Export
        Format:         ULAW8
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Import  Export  Destroy  List
        Description:    "Monty Python - Australian Table Wines"
        Sample Rate:    8000
        Num Samples:    697944
    Bucket 1:
        ID:             0x1400007
        Kind:           Bucket
        Use:            Import  Export
        Format:         LinearUnsigned8
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Import  Export  Destroy  List
        Description:    ""I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" - HAL from 2001"
        Sample Rate:    22255
        Num Samples:    85504
    Bucket 2:
        ID:             0x1400006
        Kind:           Bucket
        Use:            Import  Export
        Format:         LinearUnsigned8
        Num Tracks:     1
        Access:         Import  Export  Destroy  List
        Description:    ""He's dead, Jim" - Dr. McCoy"
        Sample Rate:    11128
        Num Samples:    31602

not the Monty Python bucket and the HAL 9000 quote living rent free in the same server 😭 the 90s were a whole different era fr fr 💀

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

• AUDIOSERVER — This variable specifies the default audio server to contact if -audio is not specified on the command line. so like, it's your fallback bestie when you forget to say who you wanna talk to 💜
• DISPLAY — If AUDIOSERVER is not set, this variable is examined to find the name of the corresponding X Window System display. second place in the "who am I connecting to" line-up, no shade 🌿

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• nas(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

See nas(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

Jim Fulton, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

and that's the whole page, bestie — you ate that. go run auinfo and go off ✨

this was version 1.9.4 of the auinfo page from the General Commands Manual, mwah, mwah — see you in the group chat 🎀🫶