ARAS.BLOCK(5) ARAS.BLOCK(5) NAME aras.block - Blocks description file for ARAS - A Radio Automation Sys- tem. DESCRIPTION aras.block The ARAS block description file contains the blocks descrip- tions for ARAS. OPTIONS The ARAS block file contains comments and some block definition ele- ments, one of them in each line: Lines with a # character at the beginning are comments. A block element is defined in a line as follows: Name Type Data Where: Name is the name of the block, as defined in the aras.schedule file. Type is the block type, it can be: File, Random, or Playlist. If the block type is File, ARAS will play the file whose URI is defined in Data. If the block type is Random, ARAS will play random files from the directory defined in Data. If the block type is Playlist, ARAS will play the m3u playlist file defined in Data. Data is the block data. It can contain a file URI (both local (file://) or from internet (http://)), a directory path or a m3u playlist path depending on the type of block. Quotation marks should be used if block data contains spaces. Examples of a block definition are: my_block File file:///home/radio/archive/my_program.ogg my_block Random /home/radio/archive/ my_block Playlist /home/radio/archive/my_playlist.m3u AUTHOR ARAS software and documentation written by Erasmo Alonso Iglesias Man page edited by Martin Zelaia SEE ALSO aras.conf(5), aras.schedule(5), aras.log(5), aras(1), aras-daemon(1), aras-recorder(1) http://aras.sourceforge.net/ 09 April 2009 ARAS.BLOCK(5)