DRUMSTICK-PLAYSMF(1)

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version 2.11.1 · 6 versions
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🎹 drumstick-playsmf(1) — bestie, it's a manual page 💅

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for drumstick-playsmf, a Drumstick command line utility for playing standard MIDI files. yes, that Drumstick. we're in the User Commands section, and honestly? iconic behavior.

✨ NAME ✨

drumstick-playsmf — a Drumstick command line utility for playing standard MIDI files 🎶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

drumstick-playsmf [options] {FILE}

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: this program is a Drumstick example and utility program. that's the whole vibe. you can use it to play standard MIDI files without GUI controls. no windows, no buttons, no nothing — just you, your terminal, and the music. main character energy fr fr 💜

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

the required ones (no skipping, bestie) 🫶

  • -p|--port= client:port — an ALSA client:port specification that will be subscribed in order to send MIDI events to it. the client portion can be a number or a name, like in "20:0" or "KMidimon:0". so like, you can be all numeric about it or you can be cute and use a name. both slay ✨
  • FILE — the name of the input SMF.

the optional ones (whenever you feel like it) 🌈

  • -h|--help — prints a summary of the command-line options and exit. your little cheat sheet, periodt 💖
  • -v|--version — prints the program version number and exit. just the number, then it dips.

👑 LICENSE 👑

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, considering as source code any files used for the production of this manpage. legally slay 💅

no cap, that license text is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but we keep it exactly as it is. it's giving official.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, iykyk 🧚

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <plcl@users.sf.net> — the actual legend behind this 🫶

Copyright © 2010-2024 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

and that's the whole thing, bestie! this page is from drumstick 2.11.1, dated August 22, 2026 — and the manual name was literally right there in the header the whole time, DRUMSTICK-PLAYSMF(1), we just folded it in up top like a good little title. bye bestie, go play some MIDI 🎧💜🎀

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