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NAME

       roarctl - RoarAudio sound server controll tool

SYNOPSIS

       roarcat [OPTIONS]... COMMAND [OPTS] [COMMAND [OPTS] [COMMAND [OPTS] [...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  controlls  the RoarAudio's sound server.  This is done by sending commands to the server. See
       COMMANDS for a list.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       --help Print some help text.

       --verbose, -v
              Be verbose. May be used multiple times.

       --list-libstandards
              Similar to serverstandards, reports the list of standard libroar supports.

       --list-aiprofiles
              Show audio info profiles and exit.

       --enum-servers
              List servers found on the network.  Depending on  the  build  options  of  libroar  this  includes
              results  from  many  tests  like  standard  server locations, OpenSLP located servers, X11 located
              servers, DECnet's neighbor and IP's ARP table and other sources.

NETWORK OPTIONS

       --server SERVER
              The server to connect to

BASIC COMMANDS

       help   Same as --help.

       listaiprofiles
              List audio info profiles.

       aiprofileget PROFILE
              Display a the given audio info profile.

       sleep TIME
              Sleeps for TIME seconds.

       ping NUM
              Pings the server NUM times. This is done by sending NOOP commands to  the  server.   The  response
              time as well as as a small statistics section is printed.

              This is not supported on all platforms.

       servername
              This command shows the server address of the server currently connected to.  This can be different
              from what has given e.g. in case of special server names like +fork.

       whoami Report client ID of roarctl on the current server.

       standby, off, resume, on
              Brings the server into standby mode or back into achtive (operating mode).

       standbymode
              Tells if the server is in standby mode or not.

       exit   Quits the server.

       terminate
              Terminates the server as soon as all clients disconnected and all streams reaches EOF.

STREAM COMMANDS

       volume STREAMID CHANNELS VOL0 VOL1 VOL2...
              Sets the mixing level for a stream with id STREAMID.

              CHANNELS is the nummber of channels to set volume.  This should be the number of channels  of  the
              stream  or a symbolic name.  Currently the symbolic names mono and stereo are allowed.  If you use
              mono all channels will get the level you give as VOL0. If you use stereo it will try  to  set  the
              mixing levels as you are used from stereo setups even if the setup is not in stereo.

              The parameters VOL0 ... VOLn and the number of them depends on what you gave as CHANNELS. You have
              to give exactly CHANNELS parameters.

              If you give a numerical (not symbolic) value for CHANNELS and the stream  does  have  a  different
              number  of  channels  the  behavor  is  undefined.   In  the current implementation only the first
              CHANNELS channels will be updated.  This behavor may change in the future.

       kick TYPE ID
              Kicks an object of TYPE with id ID.  Possible types are: client stream sample source

              You can get the ID via list* (see below).

       newvirtual P D E R B C
              Adds a new virtual (child) stream.  This is used with container formats  such  as  RAUM,  Ogg  and
              Matroska.

              Parameters:

              P      Stream ID of Parent stream.

              D      Stream Direction.

              E      Stream codEc.

              R      Sample Rate.

              B      Bits per sample.

              C      Number of Channels.

       flag ID FLAGS, unflag ID FLAGS, toogleflag ID FLAGS
              Sets,  removes or toggles flags on a stream. ID is the stream id.  FLAGS is a comma separated list
              of flags.

              It is not possible to set all kinds of flags at runtime.

       protectflag ID FLAGS
              Protects flags on a stream. ID is the stream id.  FLAGS is a comma separated list of flags.

              Protected flags can not be changed anymore after the they got protected.

META DATA COMMANDS

       role ID ROLE
              Set stream role ROLE on stream ID.

       metaget ID TYPE
              Read meta date of type TYPE from stream ID.

       metasave ID FILE
              Saves the meta data of stream ID to file FILE.  The Format is one KEY=Value pair  per  line.   The
              same format is used by Xiph's tools.

       metaload ID FILE
              Load meta data from file FILE into stream ID. The format is the same as for metasave.

SERVER INFO COMMANDS

       serverinfo
              Gets general information about the server.  This includes software vendor and version.

       servertime
              Reports the server's system time.

       serverstandards
              Report a list of standards the server supports.

       libstandards
              Similar  to  serverstandards,  reports  the  list  of  standard libroar supports.  Same as --list-
              libstandards.

       serveroinfo
              Gets Information about server output.

       serveroinfo2 DIR
              Gets Information about server output for a given direction.

LISTING COMMANDS

       listclients
              Gets Information about clients.

       clientinfo ID
              Gets Information about client ID.

       liststreams
              Gets Information about streams.

       streaminfo ID
              Gets Information about stream ID.

       allinfo
              Same as "serveroinfo listclients liststreams".

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Below only the basic environment variables 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.  This is the same as the --server option.

BUGS

       1) Make the meta data commands api-fixed and list them here.

       2) more often check if the user gave us enough arguments.

SEE ALSO

       roarvorbis(1), roarfish(1), roarbaseclients(1), roartestclients(1), libroar(7), RoarAudio(7).

HISTORY

       For history information see RoarAudio(7).