RPLAY.SERVERS(5)

✨ RPLAY.SERVERS(5) ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is the rplay.servers page from the File Formats Manual — it's a whole five in the manual section, so you know it's a file format thing, and it's literally the little black book of sound servers. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

rplay.servers — the rplay servers database, aka the group chat of hosts you can pull sounds from 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/usr/local/etc/rplay.servers

that's it. one path. that's the whole vibe check ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so. the rplay.servers file is literally just a list of hosts that rplayd will contact to obtain sound files that are not available locally. like, if your machine doesn't have the sound, it goes shopping at these servers instead 🛍️

here's the important part though — servers are contacted sequentially. that means in order, one after the other, no skipping the line 🙈. so the best servers should be listed first. put your main character servers at the top, periodt 👑

each line is of the form:

hostname[:port]

where:

• hostname — is the name of a remote host or a host's IP address. yeah, either one, she's flexible like that 💁‍♀️
• port — is an optional field containing the port to connect to. and if you don't specify a port? port 5556 is used when the port is not specified. that's the default, no cap 🔥

⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

here's what it actually looks like in the wild, bestie:

bozo.sdsu.edu
130.191.224.88
bozo.nowhere.com
soundhost.foo.com:9999

see how the last one has that :9999? that's the optional port doing its thing 💅 the others just vibe with 5556 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/local/etc/rplay.servers — the file itself, the whole moment, the icon 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• rplayd(8) — go read about the daemon that actually uses this file, she's the one doing all the work fr fr 🫶

and that's the page!! no notes, ate and left no crumbs 💖 this was RPLAY.SERVERS(5) from the File Formats Manual, dated 12/21/97 — yeah she's an old queen but she still slays 👑✨ mwah, go configure your servers bestie 🦋🌸