NAME

       audiolink - Create AudioLink config file, databases and tables

SYNOPSIS

       audiolink [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       AudioLink is a set of programs which help you manage your music collection. It makes
       searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can
       include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc.

       It supports music files of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats.

       audiolink assists you in creating a configuration file for oft-used options passed to the
       AudioLink programs and creating the MySQL database and tables which the AudioLink
       programs, alfilldb(1) and alsearch(1) use.

       The options specified on the command prompt override the options specified in the config
       file.

OPTIONS

       --help
           Brief usage information

       --host=xxx
           Connects to the MySQL server on the target host. Default is localhost.

       --pass=xxx
           Password for the database

       --user=xxx
           Username for the database

       --verbose
           Display extra information about what's going on

MORE INFORMATION

       The user and password fields for the database have to be specified. There are three ways
       of doing this:

       1. Command-line arguments
           By specifying them via the --user and --pass command-line arguments to the programs:

           "alfilldb --user=mysql_username --pass=mysql_password --prompt=basic /songs/"

           "alsearch --user=mysql_username --pass=mysql_password --artist=kishore
           --td=/songs/kishore"

       2. Environment variables
           Setting the DBI_USER and DBI_PASS environment variables:

           If you are using bash, ksh, zsh or sh do this:

           "export DBI_USER=mysql_username"

           "export DBI_PASS=mysql_password"

           If you are using csh or tcsh, do this:

           "setenv DBI_USER mysql_username"

           "setenv DBI_USER mysql_password"

           Consult the man page of the respective shell interpreter that you use for help on
           environment variables.

       3. Config file
           Specifying them in the config file (the most convenient). The config file is stored in
           each user's home directory in the ~/.audiolink/config location.

CONFIGURATION FILE

       The AudioLink configuration file config resides in the .audiolink/ directory in the user's
       home directory ($HOME/.audiolink/config).

       The format of the current config file is pretty easy to understand: Just put in "a = b" on
       separate lines for all the options you want the AudioLink scripts to use by default. Here,
       a is the option name, like user, password, host, etc., and b is the value you wish to
       associate the option with. For example, to set the username for accessing the database to
       'root', you would put this in the config file:

       "user = root"

SEE ALSO

       L<alfilldb(1)>, L<alsearch(1)> The current version of this man page is available on the
       AudioLink website at <http://audiolink.sourceforge.net/>.

BUGS

       Report bugs related to the AudioLink software or the man pages to the audiolink-devel
       mailing list <audiolink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

AUTHOR

       This manual page is written and maintained by Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT

       The AudioLink package is Copyright (C) 2003, Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>. All the
       programs and the documentation that come as part of AudioLink are licensed by the GNU
       General Public License v2 (GPLv2).