audiolink - Create AudioLink config file, databases and tables

       This manual page is written and maintained by Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>

       Report bugs related to the AudioLink software or the  man  pages  to  the  audiolink-devel  mailing  list
       <audiolink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

       The AudioLink configuration file config resides in the .audiolink/ directory in the user's home directory
       ($HOME/.audiolink/config).

       The format of the current config file is pretty easy to understand: Just put in "a = b" on separate lines
       for  all  the  options you want the AudioLink scripts to use by default. Here, a is the option name, like
       user, password, host, etc., and b is the value you wish to associate the option with. For example, to set
       the username for accessing the database to 'root', you would put this in the config file:

       "user = root"

       The  AudioLink  package  is  Copyright  (C)  2003, Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>. All the programs and the
       documentation that come as part of AudioLink are licensed by the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2).

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       AudioLink is a set of programs which help you manage your music collection. It makes searching for music
       on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male
       artists, female artists, band, genre, etc.

       It supports music files of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats.

       audiolink assists you in creating a configuration file for oft-used options passed to the AudioLink
       programs and creating the MySQL database and tables which the AudioLink programs, alfilldb(1) and
       alsearch(1) use.

       The options specified on the command prompt override the options specified in the config file.

       The user and password fields for the database have to be specified. There are three ways of doing this:

       1. Command-line arguments
           By specifying them via the --user and --pass command-line arguments to the programs:

           "alfilldb --user=mysql_username --pass=mysql_password --prompt=basic /songs/"

           "alsearch --user=mysql_username --pass=mysql_password --artist=kishore --td=/songs/kishore"

       2. Environment variables
           Setting the DBI_USER and DBI_PASS environment variables:

           If you are using bash, ksh, zsh or sh do this:

           "export DBI_USER=mysql_username"

           "export DBI_PASS=mysql_password"

           If you are using csh or tcsh, do this:

           "setenv DBI_USER mysql_username"

           "setenv DBI_USER mysql_password"

           Consult  the  man  page  of  the  respective  shell  interpreter that you use for help on environment
           variables.

       3. Config file
           Specifying them in the config file (the most convenient). The config file is stored  in  each  user's
           home directory in the ~/.audiolink/config location.

       audiolink - Create AudioLink config file, databases and tables

--help
           Brief usage information

       --host=xxx
           Connects to the MySQL server on the target host. Default is localhost.

       --pass=xxx
           Password for the database

       --user=xxx
           Username for the database

       --verbose
           Display extra information about what's going on

       L<alfilldb(1)>, L<alsearch(1)> The current version of this man page is available on the AudioLink website
       at <http://audiolink.sourceforge.net/>.

       audiolink [OPTION]...