NAME¶

gbsplayrc - Gameboy sound player configuration file

DESCRIPTION¶

This manpage describes the configuration file format of gbsplay(1).

A configuration file is a text file that may contain options for gbsplay(1) as well as comments.

Comments are introduced by a hash mark ("#"). A comment continues to the end of the line.

Whitespace, including empty lines, is ignored.

An option is set by giving the option name, followed by an equal sign ("=") and the option value.

Option values can be of these types:

Boolean: An integer number in decimal. 0 is considered false, everything else is true.
Endian: A single character denoting the endianness:

Integer: An integer number in decimal.
Plugin: The name of an output plugin. Run `gbsplay -o list' to get a list of all available output plugins.

endian = Endian: Set the output endianness.
fadeout = Integer: Set the fadeout time in seconds. Instead of cutting the subsong off hard, do a soft fadeout.
loop = Boolean: Enable or disable loop mode. In loop mode the playback will restart from the beginning after the last subsong has been played.
output_plugin = Plugin: Set the sound output plugin.
rate = Integer: Set the samplerate in Hz.
refresh_delay = Integer: Set the refresh delay in milliseconds. Larger values will lower CPU usage, but things as subsong changes, fadeouts, reactions to keypresses and the on-screen display will be delayed.
silence_timeout = Integer: Set the silence timeout in seconds. When a subsong contains silence for the given time, the player will skip to the next subsong.
subsong_gap = Integer: Set the subsong gap in seconds. Before playing the next subsong after the subsong timeout, subsong-gap seconds of silence will be played.
subsong_timeout = Integer: Set the subsong timeout in seconds. When a subsong has been played for the given time, the player will skip to the next subsong. A timeout of 0 seconds disables automatic subsong changes.
verbosity = Integer: Set the verbosity level (default: 3). A value of 0 means no messages on stdout.

If you encounter bugs, please report them via https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/issues

A simple configuration file might look like this:

# select NAS output plugin and play subsongs for at most 5 minutes
output_plugin = nas
subsong_timeout = 300

gbsplay was written by Tobias Diedrich <ranma+gbsplay@tdiedrich.de> (with contributions from others, see README.md).

gbsplay is licensed under GNU GPL v1 or, at your option, any later version.