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NAME

       roartips - Tips for RoarAudio users

SYNOPSIS

        roard [OPTIONS...] ...

        roarclient [OPTIONS...] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manpage lists some tips for intermedia to advanced users of RoarAudio.

CONTROLLING ROARD

       RoarAudio  supports  a lot of things you can change on the fly.  This includes the volume for each stream
       as you may already noticed: If you cange the volume within a player only this stream  is  changed,  other
       streams keep there loudness. There a a lot other things that can be changed on the fly.  To do this there
       is a tool called roarctl(1). You may want to play around a bit with it. A good start are to try those two
       commands:
        roarctl --help
        roarctl allinfo

       The  later one will show you all information current available of the server it self, the clients and the
       streams. This may include a lot of information.

SERVER ADDRESS

       There a serverel types of server addresses based on the protocol used to  communicate.   This  lists  the
       corrently implemented types in order of importance:

       /path/to/sock
              Path to UNIX Domain Socket.  Example:
               /tmp/roar

       host, host:port
              This is used 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 may be omitted
              to use defaults. Default node name is local hosts node name.  Examples:
               mynode::
               ::roar
               yournode::yourroard

       +fork  This starts a new roard for every roar_connect(3).  This is used internaly by the lib  to  emulate
              EsounD's fallback.

ENVIRONMENT

       ROAR_SERVER
              This  variable  contains the default server address. If some client does not allow a user to set a
              server address or to set a default value this one come into play. Examples:
               ROAR_SERVER=some.host
               ROAR_SERVER=another.host:port
               ROAR_SERVER=node::
               ROAR_SERVER=/tmp/roar

SEE ALSO

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