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

# roartips(7)

Tips for RoarAudio users

## NAME

roartips - Tips for RoarAudio users

## SYNOPSIS

 roard \[OPTIONS...\] ...

 roarclient \[OPTIONS...\] ...

## DESCRIPTION

This manpage lists some tips for intermedia to advanced users of RoarAudio.

## CONTROLLING ROARD

RoarAudio supports a lot of things you can change on the fly. This includes the volume for each stream as you may already noticed: If you cange the volume within a player only this stream is changed, other streams keep there loudness. There a a lot other things that can be changed on the fly. To do this there is a tool called [**roarctl**(1)](/roarctl/1.md). You may want to play around a bit with it. A good start are to try those two commands:\
  roarctl --help\
  roarctl allinfo

The later one will show you all information current available of the server it self, the clients and the streams. This may include a lot of information.

## SERVER ADDRESS

There a serverel types of server addresses based on the protocol used to communicate. This lists the corrently implemented types in order of importance:

- **/path/to/sock**

  Path to UNIX Domain Socket. Example:\
    /tmp/roar

- **host**, **host:port**

  This is used for connections over TCP/IP. If port is omitted the default port is used. Examples:\
    audio.homeserver.local\
    localhost:7564

- **node::**, **node::object**, **::object**, **::**

  This is the way to specify a DECnet connection to node **node**'s object **object**. Both may be omitted to use defaults. Default node name is local hosts node name. Examples:\
    mynode::\
    ::roar\
    yournode::yourroard

- **+fork**

  This starts a new roard for every [**roar\_connect**(3)](/roar_connect/3.md). This is used internaly by the lib to emulate EsounD's fallback.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **ROAR\_SERVER**

  This variable contains the default server address. If some client does not allow a user to set a server address or to set a default value this one come into play. Examples:\
    ROAR\_SERVER=some.host\
    ROAR\_SERVER=another.host:port\
    ROAR\_SERVER=node::\
    ROAR\_SERVER=/tmp/roar

## SEE ALSO

[**roarcat**(1)](/roarcat/1.md), [**roarctl**(1)](/roarctl/1.md), [**roarfilt**(1)](/roarfilt/1.md), **roarfish**(1), [**roarmon**(1)](/roarmon/1.md), [**roarvorbis**(1)](/roarvorbis/1.md), [**roard**(1)](/roard/1.md), [**libroar**(7)](/libroar/7.md).