APLAYMIDI(1)

✨ APLAYMIDI(1) ✨ General Commands Manual 🎀

Okay so bestie, this is the manual page for aplaymidi 🦋 It's the aplaymidi(1) command, and it is literally about playing Standard MIDI Files 🎶 Let's get into it 💅

💖 NAME

aplaymidi — play Standard MIDI Files 🎹

🌸 SYNOPSIS

aplaymidi -p client:port[,...] [-d delay] midifile ...

🧚 DESCRIPTION

Okay so aplaymidi is a command-line utility that plays the MIDI file(s) you give it 🎵 It sends everything out to one or more ALSA sequencer ports 🔥 The vibe is so clean, no cap ✨

👑 OPTIONS

• -h, --help — Shows you a list of all the options 🙈
• -V, --version — Shows the current version 🫶
• -l, --list — Shows a list of possible output ports 💜
• -p, --port=client:port,... — Picks the sequencer port(s) where the events from your MIDI file(s) get sent 🦋

Bestie, a client can be picked by its number, its name, or just a prefix of its name 💅 A port is picked by its number, and for port 0 of a client, you can drop the :0 part of the port spec 🌈

You can list multiple ports so one MIDI file can play events for multiple devices, as long as they're marked with "Port Number" meta events ✨

Also, for compatibility with pmidi(1), if you don't type a port on the command line, the port spec gets read from the ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS environment variable instead 🧚

• -u, --ump=version — Switches the sequencer client to the MIDI version you give it, and outputs via UMP packets instead of legacy sequencer events 🔥 Lowkey a big glow-up. Right now the only supported version is 1 💀
• -d, --delay=seconds — Sets how many seconds to wait after each MIDI file ends, so the last notes have time to fade out 🥹

🙈 BUGS

Heads up bestie: aplaymidi handles "Port Number" meta events, but it does NOT handle "Port Name" meta events 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO

• pmidi(1)
• playmidi(1)

💜 AUTHOR

Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> 🫶

Bye bestie, that's the whole page 🌸 Source: ALSA utils · 2 Nov 2011 · aplaymidi(1) 💖