NAME

       roarcat, roarmon - RoarAudio sound server base clients

SYNOPSIS

       roarcat [OPTIONS]... [FILE]

       roarmon [OPTIONS]...

DESCRIPTION

       This  are  some  basic clients for RoarAuido. Some more complex are listen in the SEE ALSO
       block.  For controlling roard take a look at roarctl(1). For a simple  Ogg  Vorbis  player
       take a look at roarvorbis(1) (ogg123 supportes RoarAudio via libao plugin).

       roarcat
              Sends raw PCM audio data from a file or stdin (pipe) to the sound server.

       roarmon
              Gets a copy of the audio data the server sends to the soundcard. This is useful for
              streaming to a server like icecast2(1).

GENERAL OPTIONS

       NOTE: This list is incomplete!  In addition  to  this  list  all  three  programs  provide
       compatible  options  for  esdcat,  esdmon. You can just replace the "esd" in the name with
       "roar" or use symlinks. This options are for compatibly only and should not  used  in  new
       programs.

       --help Print some help text.

AUDIO OPTIONS

       --rate RATE, -R RATE
              Set server sample rate.

       --bits BITS, -B BITS
              Set server bits.

       --chans CHANNELS, -C CHANNELS
              Set server channels.

NETWORK OPTIONS

       --server SERVER
              The server to connect to.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Bellow  only  the  basic  environment  varibales  are  listend.   For  a complete list see
       libroar(7).

       HOME   The users home directory.

       ROAR_SERVER
              The address of the listening server. This may be in form of  host:port  for  TCP/IP
              connections  and  /path/to/sock  for  UNIX  Domain  Sockets  or any other supported
              format. See roartips(7) for a full list.  This is the same as the --server option.

BUGS

       There are a lot of bugs...

SEE ALSO

       roarctl(1),  roarvorbis(1),  roarfish(1),  roartestclients(1),  roartips(7),   libroar(7),
       RoarAudio(7).

HISTORY

       For history information see RoarAudio(7).