roartips(7)

💖 roartips(7) 💖

okay bestie, so this is roartips — it lives in the System Manager's Manual: RoarAudio (the header lowkey spells it "RoarAuido", iconic typo, we move on 💅). It's the tips page for RoarAudio users, aimed at the intermediate-to-advanced girlies who already know their way around.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

roard [OPTIONS...] ...

roarclient [OPTIONS...] ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manpage is literally just a lil collection of tips for intermediate to advanced RoarAudio users. Not a full reference, just the good stuff. Periodt.

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👑 CONTROLLING ROARD 👑

RoarAudio supports a lot of things you can change on the fly, and no cap, it's giving main character energy. This includes the volume for each stream — which you've probs already noticed: if you change the volume inside a player, only that stream changes, and all the other streams keep their loudness. Slay.

There are a lot of other things you can change on the fly too. To do that there's a tool called roarctl(1). You're gonna want to play around with it a bit, fr fr. A good start is trying these two commands:

roarctl --help
roarctl allinfo

The second one (allinfo) will show you all the information currently available about the server itself, the clients, and the streams. Heads up tho — that can be a lot of information. 😭

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🌈 SERVER ADDRESS 🌈

There are several types of server addresses, and which one you use depends on the protocol used to communicate. Here are the currently implemented types, listed in order of importance:

💜 /path/to/sock

Path to a UNIX Domain Socket. Example:

/tmp/roar

💜 host, host:port

This one is for connections over TCP/IP. If port is omitted, the default port is used. Examples:

audio.homeserver.local
localhost:7564

💜 node::, node::object, ::object, ::

This is the way to specify a DECnet connection to node node's object object. Both of them may be omitted to use the defaults. The default node name is the local host's node name. Examples:

mynode::
::roar
yournode::yourroard

💜 +fork

This starts a new roard for every roar_connect(3). It's used internally by the lib to emulate EsounD's fallback. iykyk 🫶

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🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

🌸 ROAR_SERVER

This variable contains the default server address. If some client doesn't let a user set a server address, or doesn't let them set a default value, then this one comes into play. Examples:

ROAR_SERVER=some.host
ROAR_SERVER=another.host:port
ROAR_SERVER=node::
ROAR_SERVER=/tmp/roar

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

roarcat(1), roarctl(1), roarfilt(1), roarfish(1), roarmon(1), roarvorbis(1), roard(1), libroar(7).

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k bye bestie, go read your streams 💖

this page came from RoarAudio, dated August 2008 — no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋✨