MIDIPLAY(1) BSD Reference Manual MIDIPLAY(1)NAMEmidiplay - play MIDI and RMID files
SYNOPSISmidiplay [-lmqvx] [-d devno] [-f file] [-t tempo] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The midiplay command plays MIDI and RMID files using the sequencer dev-
ice.
RMID files are Standard MIDI Files embedded in a RIFF container and can
usually be found with the 'rmi' extension. They contain some additional
information in other chunks which are not parsed by midiplay yet. RIFF
containers can contain more than one chunk of data; however, using
midiplay on these is not supported and will behave unpredictably.
If no file name is given it will play from standard input; otherwise it
will play the named files.
The options are as follows:
-d devno Specifies the number of the MIDI device used for output (as
listed by the -l flag). The default is device 0.
-f file Specifies the name of the sequencer device.
-l List the possible devices without playing anything.
-m Show MIDI file meta events (copyright, lyrics, etc.).
-q Do not play the MIDI file, just parse it.
-t tempo Specifies the tempo. Default is 100.
-v Be verbose. If the flag is repeated, the verbosity increases.
-x Play a small sample sound.
FILES
/dev/music MIDI sequencer device
SEE ALSOmidi(4)HISTORY
The midiplay command first appeared in NetBSD 1.4. Support for RMID files
was added in MirOS #8.
BUGS
It may take a long while before playing stops when midiplay is interrupt-
ed since the sequencer and MIDI buffers will still be emptied.
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