NAME
    dtas-console - rudimentary curses console client for dtas-player

SYNOPSIS
    dtas-console

DESCRIPTION
    dtas-console displays the elapsed decoder time of the track, which can
    be used as an approximation of the current playback time of a track.

    It cannot display an accurate playback time due to variable buffering in
    the sinks and pipes.

    See dtas-player_protocol(7) for a detailed description of the protocol.

KEYBOARD CONTROL
    Key bindings are inspired partially by mplayer(1)

    'j'/'k' - seek backward/forward 5 seconds
    LEFT/RIGHT - seek backward/forward 10 seconds
    UP/DOWN - seek forward/backward 1 minute
    PGUP/PGDWN - seek forward/backward 10 minutes
    SPACE - toggle play/pause state of the playback
    'p'/'P' - decrease/increase timer resolution
    BACKSPACE - seek to the beginning of the track
    7/8 - decrease/increase ReplayGain preamp
    9/0 - decrease/increase software volume
    '=' - set software volume to 1.0 (no adjustment)
    'm' - mute set software volume to 0.0 (mute)
    'f'/'F' - decrease/increase ReplayGain fallback_gain value
    'r'/'R' - cycle forward/backwards through ReplayGain modes
    'q'/Ctrl-C - exit dtas-console
    'o' - toggle display between HH:MM:SS and absolute seconds

ENVIRONMENT
    DTAS_PLAYER_SOCK - the path to the dtas-player control socket. This
    defaults to ~/.dtas/player.sock

CAVEATS
    Increasing timer resolution increases the number of CPU wakeups and
    power consumption. This defeats the efforts of dtas-player
    configurations which use large buffers (especially in the sink) to
    reduce wakeups and power consumption.

    In rare cases (or poorly-configured systems), increased wakeups from
    dtas-console will also increase contention with the sound card,
    negatively affecting audio quality even if CPU utilization is not a
    problem.

CONTACT
    All feedback welcome via plain-text mail to:
    <mailto:dtas-all@nongnu.org>

    Mailing list archives available at <https://80x24.org/dtas-all/> and
    <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dtas-all/>

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COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2013-2020 all contributors <mailto:dtas-all@nongnu.org>

    License: GPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>

SEE ALSO
    dtas-player(1), dtas-player_protocol(7), dtas-ctl(1), dtas-sinkedit(1),
    dtas-sourceedit(1)