AUTOOL(1)

📦 version 1.9.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

autool — the audio play/record tool that's compatible with audiotool 🎧✨

🌸 SYNOPSYS 🌸

audiotool [-audio servername] [-volume percent] [-display displayname]
[-geom geometry]  filename

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, autool is literally a glow-up replacement for the Sun audiotool program, and its whole job is sending audio files to Network Audio System servers. iconic behavior fr fr. 🎀

and there's two ways to slot it in, so pick your fighter:

  • make a symbolic link named audiotool that points to autool, and make sure it comes before the OpenWindows version — path order matters, no cap 💅
  • or change the OpenWindows deskset bindings database using the binder(1) command

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's everything you can hand to autool, bestie:

  • -audio servername — tells it which Network Audio System server the files should be played on 🌈
  • -volume 0-100 — sets the volume for playing the data, as a percentage of the maximum possible volume. the default is 10 percent, so yes, lowkey quiet by default 🙈
  • -display displayname — says which X Window System the control panel should show up on 👑
  • -geom geometry — sets the position and size of that control panel 🎀

🌟 CONFIGURING OPENWINDOWS TO USE AUTOOL 🌟

OpenWindows girlies, listen up — you can set up deskset applications to use autool for playing audio files by following these steps. it's giving tutorial era 💅

  1. Run the deskset configuration program binder.
  2. Locate the entry in the scrolling list named audio-file and click on it once with the left mouse button.
  3. From the Props menu, select the Icon... entry with the right mouse button.
  4. Click on the button marked (+) in the lower right corner with the left mouse button. This will expand the window, adding another panel to the right.
  5. On the line marked Application in the panel on the right, change `audiotool` to `autool` (you will need to specify a full path name if you have not installed autool in a directory in your path). The initial volume (which is a percentage relative to the recorded level; the default is 10) can be increased by inserting the `-v percent` option between `autool` and `$FILE`.
  6. Press the Apply button in the left panel.
  7. Back in the main binder window, press the Save button in the upper left corner.
  8. Restart any deskset applications such as filemgr to have the updated values take effect.

and then?? double clicking in filemgr on file names that end in .snd will now cause autool to invoked. slay 🎉

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

autool reads these environment variables, bestie:

  • AUDIOSERVER — this variable specifies the default audio server to contact if -audio is not specified on the command line.
  • DISPLAY — if AUDIOSERVER is not set, this variable is examined to find the name of the corresponding X Window System display.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

nas(1)

Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

this has been autool, version 1.9.4, from the General Commands Manual — ty for coming to my ted talk, ily, go play some .snd files 💜🧚
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