ossinfo(1)

💖 ossinfo — the manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is ossinfo(1), living under the OSS User Commands umbrella. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're about to learn literally everything about your sound devices.

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✨ NAME ✨

ossinfo — the Open Sound System information/status program 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ossinfo [-Aaeghmpx] [-v #]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like… ossinfo displays OSS device information. That's the whole vibe. It tells you what's out there. 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Every single one, no skips, we don't gatekeep here 💅

• -v# — Verbose output, bestie. The number tells it how verbose — level of verbosity 0-9. Crank it up if you want the tea ☕
• -p — Display only physical audio/midi devices. Real hardware only, no imaginary friends 🎀
• -g — Display ALL audio/midi/mixer devices — physical and virtual. Everybody's invited to this party 🎉
• -a — Display audio device files 📁
• -A — Display audio device files, but for applications using O_EXCL 👀 (iykyk)
• -e — Display all audio engines 🔥
• -m — Display only the MIDI devices 🎹
• -x — Display only the mixer devices 🎚️
• -h — Display help. When in doubt, ask for help, that's self-care fr fr 🫶

✨ FILES ✨

• /usr/bin/ossinfo — yeah, that's where the magic lives 📍

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Go read these too, they're iconic:

• ossdevlinks(1)
• ossmix(1)
• ossxmix(1)
• The Getting information about devices section of the OSS Programmer's Guide (device_discovery(2)) — that one's got instructions for getting device information inside applications, so if you're building stuff, that's your girl 💜

✨ AUTHOR ✨

4Front Technologies 🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by 4Front Technologies, dated 11 February 2015, which honestly is giving vintage in the cutest way 💖✨🎀