.IP
The default is \fB{/artist}{/album}{/title}{ext}\fR.
.TP
+.B broadcast \fIADDRESS\fR \fIPORT\fR
+Transmit sound data to \fIADDRESS\fR using UDP port \fIPORT\fR. This implies
+\fBspeaker_backend network\fR.
+.TP
+.B broadcast_from \fIADDRESS\fR \fIPORT\fR
+Sets the (local) source address used by \fBbroadcast\fR.
+.TP
.B channel \fICHANNEL\fR
The mixer channel that the volume control should use. Valid names depend on
your operating system and hardware, but some standard ones that might be useful
The path to the mixer device, if you want access to the volume control,
e.g. \fB/dev/mixer\fR.
.TP
+.B multicast_ttl \fIHOPS\fR
+Set the maximum number of hops to send multicast packets. This only applies is
+\fBspeaker_backend\fR is set to \fBnetwork\fR and \fBbroadcast\fR is actually a
+multicast address.
+.TP
.B namepart \fIPART\fR \fIREGEXP\fR \fISUBST\fR [\fICONTEXT\fR [\fIREFLAGS\fR]]
Determines how to extract trackname part \fIPART\fR from a
track name (with the collection root part removed).
.TP
.B execraw \fICOMMAND\fR \fIARGS\fR...
Identical to the \fBexec\fR except that the player is expected to use the
-DisOrder raw player protocol (see notes below).
+DisOrder raw player protocol.
+.BR disorder-decode (8)
+can decode several common audio file formats to this format. If your favourite
+format is not supported, but you have a player which uses libao, there is also
+a libao driver which supports this format; see below for more information about
+this.
.TP
.B shell \fR[\fISHELL\fR] \fICOMMAND\fR
The command is executed using the shell. If \fISHELL\fR is specified then that
The interval at which the preferences log file will be synchronised. Defaults
to 3600, i.e. one hour.
.TP
+.B queue_pad \fICOUNT\fR
+The target size of the queue. If random play is enabled then randomly picked
+tracks will be added until the queue is at least this big.
+.TP
.B sample_format \fIBITS\fB/\fIRATE\fB/\fICHANNELS
Describes the sample format expected by the \fBspeaker_command\fR (below). The
components of the format specification are as follows:
Signals are specified by their full C name, i.e. \fBSIGINT\fR and not \fBINT\fR
or \fBInterrupted\fR or whatever.
.TP
+.B speaker_backend \fINAME\fR
+Selects the backend use by the speaker process. The following options are
+available:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B alsa
+Use the ALSA API. This is only available on Linux systems, on which it is the
+default.
+.TP
+.B command
+Execute a command. This is the default if
+.B speaker_command
+is specified, or (currently) on non-Linux systems.
+.TP
+.B network
+Transmit audio over the network. This is the default if
+\fBbroadcast\fR is specified. You can use
+.BR disorder-playrtp (1)
+to receive and play the resulting stream on Linux and OS X.
+.RE
+.TP
+.B sox_generation \fB0\fR|\fB1
+Determines whether calls to \fBsox\fR(1) should use \fB-b\fR, \fB-x\fR, etc (if
+the generation is 0) or \fB-\fIbits\fR, \fB-L\fR etc (if it is 1). The default
+is 0.
+.TP
.B speaker_command \fICOMMAND
Causes the speaker subprocess to pipe audio data into shell command
\fICOMMAND\fR, rather than writing to a local sound card. The sample format is
over track names.
.SS "Client Configuration"
.TP
-.B connect \fR[\fIHOST\fR] \fISERVICE\fR
+.B connect \fIHOST SERVICE\fR
Connect to the address specified by \fIHOST\fR and port specified by
-\fISERVICE\fR. If \fIHOST\fR is omitted then connects to the local host.
-Normally the UNIX domain socket is used instead.
+\fISERVICE\fR.
.SS "Web Interface Configuration"
.TP
.B refresh \fISECONDS\fR