---
name: "RoarAudio"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "libroar-dev"
version: "1.0~beta12-4"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/RoarAudio"
---

# RoarAudio(7)

RoarAudio sound system and package

## 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 professional 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)](/roar-config/1.md), [**roarcat**(1)](/roarcat/1.md), [**roarctl**(1)](/roarctl/1.md), [**roarfilt**(1)](/roarfilt/1.md), **roarfish**(1), [**roarmon**(1)](/roarmon/1.md), [**roartypes**(1)](/roartypes/1.md), [**roarvorbis**(1)](/roarvorbis/1.md), [**roard**(1)](/roard/1.md), [**roartips**(7)](/roartips/7.md), [**libroar**(7)](/libroar/7.md).

## HISTORY

Project started in mid of 2008.

Milestones:\
  2008-08-31 First official 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