aplaymidi.1 (1390B)
1 .TH APLAYMIDI 1 "2 Nov 2011" 2 3 .SH NAME 4 aplaymidi \- play Standard MIDI Files 5 6 .SH SYNOPSIS 7 .B aplaymidi 8 \-p client:port[,...] [\-d delay] midifile ... 9 10 .SH DESCRIPTION 11 .B aplaymidi 12 is a command-line utility that plays the specified MIDI file(s) to one 13 or more ALSA sequencer ports. 14 15 .SH OPTIONS 16 17 .TP 18 .I \-h, \-\-help 19 Prints a list of options. 20 21 .TP 22 .I \-V, \-\-version 23 Prints the current version. 24 25 .TP 26 .I \-l, \-\-list 27 Prints a list of possible output ports. 28 29 .TP 30 .I \-p, \-\-port=client:port,... 31 Sets the sequencer port(s) to which the events in the MIDI file(s) are 32 sent. 33 34 A client can be specified by its number, its name, or a prefix of its 35 name. A port is specified by its number; for port 0 of a client, the 36 ":0" part of the port specification can be omitted. 37 38 Multiple ports can be specified to allow playback of MIDI file(s) that 39 contain events for multiple devices (ports), as specified by "Port 40 Number" meta events. 41 42 For compatibility with 43 .B pmidi(1), 44 the port specification is taken from the 45 .I ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS 46 environment variable if none is given on the command line. 47 48 .TP 49 .I \-d, \-\-delay=seconds 50 Specifies how long to wait after the end of each MIDI file, 51 to allow the last notes to die away. 52 53 .SH BUGS 54 .B aplaymidi 55 handles "Port Number" meta events, but not "Port Name" meta events. 56 57 .SH SEE ALSO 58 pmidi(1) 59 .br 60 playmidi(1) 61 62 .SH AUTHOR 63 Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>