It contains the following programs:
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para_server (obligatory)
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para_server streams binary audio data (mp3/oggvorbis/m4a files)
over local and/or remote networks. It listens on a tcp port and
The built-in audio file selector of paraslash is used to manage your
audio files. It maintains statistics on the usage of all available audio
files such as last played time, and the number of times each file was
-selected. Its features include
+selected.
+
+Its features include
* attributes: Allow fine-grained audio file selection.
* playlist table. Stores arbitrary many playlists.
- * mood mode. Audio file selection works by spcifying mood
+ * mood mode. Audio file selection works by specifying mood
methods involving attributes, pattern matching for file names
and more. This allows rather sophisticated configurations
and is explained in more detail in INSTALL.
A small bash script for inclusion in ~/.bashrc. It gives you command
line completion for some paraslash commands.
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-Requirements
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-
-In any case you need
-
- - gcc, the gnu compiler collection (shipped with distro): gcc-3.3
- or newer is required.
- - gnu make (shipped with disto, might be called gmake)
- - bash
- - openssl (needed by server, client): usually shipped with
- distro, but you might have to install the "development package"
- (called libssl-dev on debian systems) as well:
- http://www.openssl.org/
- - software mixing, e.g. ALSA and the direct mixing plugin (dmix)
-
-The mp3 decoder of para_filter is based on libmad: If you prefer to
-use the libmad package provided by your distributor, make sure to
-install the corresponding development package as well. Otherwise,
-just download libmad from http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
-
-For ogg vorbis streams you'll need libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile,
-The corresponding Debian packages are called libogg-dev libvorbis-dev,
-other distributors chose similar names. All of these are also
-available at http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
-
-For aac files (m4a) you'll need libfaad. Get it at
-http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?page=AAC
-
-If you intend to use the optional ortp streamer, you'll need libortp:
-http://www.linphone.org/ortp/
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LICENSE
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-Distribution of paraslash is covered by the GNU GPL. See file COPYING.
+Distribution of paraslash is covered by the GNU GPL, version 2. See file
+COPYING.
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THE AUTHOR