pw-mididump(1)

✨ pw-mididump ✨

okay bestie, so this is pw-mididump, a lil command from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally just "The PipeWire MIDI dump" 💅 like that's the whole vibe. it dumps MIDI. that's it. that's the girl.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pw-mididump [options] [FILE]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does she actually do? She dumps MIDI messages to stdout. That's the entire personality. 🫶

When you hand her a MIDI file, the events living inside that file get printed out. cute, right?

When you give her no file at all? Then she does something kinda iconic: pw-mididump creates a PipeWire MIDI input stream, and she'll print every single MIDI event that shows up on the port straight to stdout. live. in real time. main character energy fr fr. 🌈

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -r | --remote=NAME — this is where you tell her which remote instance you wanna monitor, by name. If you don't specify it, she just makes a connection to the default PipeWire instance. no thoughts, default behaviour. ✨
• -h | --help — shows you the help. the classic. 💅
• --version — shows you the version information. always good to know what era of her you're dealing with. 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

This masterpiece was brought to you by The PipeWire Developers 🦋

• <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>
• PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

not me being obsessed with an entire dev team 💀

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

If you wanna go down the rabbit hole (and honestly, you should), go check out:

• pipewire(1)
• pw-cat(1)

iykyk 🌟

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that's the whole page bestie, hope it slaps — it's from PipeWire version 1.6.11, so go forth, dump some MIDI, and slay 💖🎀✨