debian man page for roaraudio

RoarAudio(7)						System Manager's Manual: RoarAuido					      RoarAudio(7)

NAME
       RoarAudio - RoarAudio sound system and package

SYNOPSIS
       roard [OPTIONS]...

DESCRIPTION
       RoarAudio  is  a  modern, multi-OS, network transparent sound system.  It supports a large amount of features required for home and profes-
       sional usage.  Its main purpose is to connect software (like media players) and devices (like soundcards) as a  mid-layer  adding  features
       you expect from a modern sound system like software mixing and full network transparency.

       RoarAudio  can  also be used to connect multiple software components. An example for such a setup is a common webradio setup where the used
       playback software is connected to a streaming server in addition to a local soundcard. RoarAudio has special features for such setups  like
       meta data passing.

MAIN FEATURES
	* fully network transparent. Network support for UNIX Domain Sockets, TCP/IP and DECnet
	* multiple audio streams per client
	* Vorbis comments like meta data for each audio stream
	* support for "legacy" clients via libroaresd, libroararts, libroaryiff
	* support for PulseAudio and OpenBSD's sndio clients via libroarpulse and libroarsndio
	* supported by many media players and other sound using applications!
	* mixing clients at individual levels like an analog mixer
	* server and client side support for common codecs like Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and many more
	* support for 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit per sample. Mixer resolution up to 64 bit
	* and many more...

BUGS
       A lot...

SEE ALSO
       roar-config(1),	 roarcat(1),  roarctl(1),  roarfilt(1),  roarfish(1),  roarmon(1),  roartypes(1),  roarvorbis(1),  roard(1),  roartips(7),
       libroar(7).

HISTORY
       Project started in mid of 2008.

       Milestones:
	2008-08-31 First offical release (v. 0.1)
	2009-02-04 First release of the new trunk for 0.2 (v. 0.2beta0)
	    With this release the version schema was changed.
	2009-05-21 Release of version 0.2
	2009-09-06 First commercal use (roarphone, v. 0.3beta0)
	2010-06-11 New pre-release based release-cycle was introduced to improve release quality
	2010-08-22 Release of version 0.3

RoarAudio							   November 2010						      RoarAudio(7)