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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 Sock-
	      ets 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).

RoarAudio							     July 2008							roarbaseclients(1)