This is for access control and reporting, not to provide different
views of the world: i.e. preferences and so on are global.
.PP
-Each user has an associated set of rights which contorl which commands they may
+Each user has an associated set of rights which control which commands they may
execute.
Normally you would give all users most rights, and expect them to
cooperate (they are after all presumed to be in a shared sound environment).
.RS
.TP 8
.B pcm
-
Output level for the audio device.
This is probably what you want and is the default.
.TP
.B "Users And Access Control"
above.
.IP
-The default is to allow everything except \fBadmin\fR and \fBregister\fR
-(modified in legacy configurations by the obsolete \fBrestrict\fR directive).
+The default is to allow everything except \fBadmin\fR and \fBregister\fR.
.TP
.B device \fINAME\fR
Sound output device.
The default is \fBdefault\fR, which is intended to map to whatever the system's
default is.
.TP
-.B gap \fISECONDS\fR
-This option no longer does anything and will be removed in a future version.
-.TP
.B history \fIINTEGER\fR
Specifies the number of recently played tracks to remember (including
failed tracks and scratches).
.IP
Normally the server only listens on a UNIX domain socket.
.TP
-.B lock yes\fR|\fBno
-This option no longer does anything and will be removed in a future version.
-.TP
.B mixer \fIDEVICE\fR
The mixer device name, if it needs to be specified separately from
\fBdevice\fR.
.IP
For \fBapi coreaudio\fR, volume setting is not currently supported.
.TP
+.B mount_rescan yes\fR|\fBno
+Determines whether mounts and unmounts will cause an automatic rescan.
+The default is \fByes\fR.
+.TP
.B multicast_loop yes\fR|\fBno
Determines whether multicast packets are loop backed to the sending host.
The default is \fByes\fR.
The following options are supported:
.RS
.TP
-.B \-\-wait\-for\-device\fR[\fB=\fIDEVICE\fR]
-\fBThis option is deprecated\fR.
-If you want gapless play use raw-format players and the speaker process instead.
-(This the default in any case.)
-.IP
-Waits (for up to a couple of seconds) for the default, or specified, libao
-device to become openable.
-.TP
.B \-\-
Defines the end of the list of options.
Needed if the first argument to the plugin starts with a "\-".
background decoders will not be stopped and restarted using changed
configuration once they have been started.
.TP
-.B prefsync \fISECONDS\fR
-This option no longer does anything and will be removed in a future version.
-.TP
.B queue_pad \fICOUNT\fR
The target size of the queue.
If random play is enabled then randomly picked tracks will be added until