dmidiplayer - Man Page
Plays MIDI, Karaoke and Cakewalk Files
Synopsis
dmidiplayer [-p|–portable] [-f|–file file] [-d|–driver driver] [-c|–connection connection] [midi_files]
Description
This program is a multiplatform MIDI file player for Linux, Windows and macOS. It reads .MID (Standard MIDI Files), .KAR (Karaoke), .RMI (RIFF RMID), and .WRK (Cakewalk) file formats, and outputs MIDI events to hardware MIDI ports and also software synths.
Options
- -h, –help
Prints brief usage information.
- -v, –version
Prints the current version number.
- -p, –portable
Portable settings mode.
- -f, –file portableFile
Portable settings file name.
- -d, –driver driver
Drumstick::RT MIDI Out Driver.
- -c, –connection connection
Drumstick::RT MIDI Out Connection.
Standard Options
The following options apply to all Qt5 applications:
- -style= style / -style style
Set the application GUI style. Possible values depend on the system configuration. If Qt is compiled with additional styles or has additional styles as plugins these will be available to the -style command line option.
- -stylesheet= stylesheet / -stylesheet stylesheet
Set the application styleSheet. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.
- -widgetcount
Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.
- -reverse
Set the application’s layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft. This option is intended to aid debugging and should not be used in production. The default value is automatically detected from the user’s locale (see also QLocale::textDirection()).
- -platform platformName[:options]
Specify the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.
- -platformpluginpath path
Specify the path to platform plugins.
- -platformtheme platformTheme
Specify the platform theme.
- -plugin plugin
Specify additional plugins to load. The argument may appear multiple times.
- -qwindowgeometry geometry
Specify the window geometry for the main window using the X11-syntax. For example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50
- -qwindowicon icon
Set the default window icon.
- -qwindowtitle title
Set the title of the first window.
- -session session
Restore the application from an earlier session.
- -display hostname:screen_number
Switch displays on X11. Overrides the DISPLAY environment variable.
- -geometry geometry
Specify the window geometry for the main window on X11. For example: -geometry 100x100+50+50
- -dialogs= [xp|none]
Only available for the Windows platform. XP uses native style dialogs and none disables them.
- -fontengine= freetype
Use the FreeType font engine.
Arguments
- midi_files
Input MID/KAR/RMI/WRK file name(s). The set of provided file names becomes a temporary playlist.
Files
- *.lst
Playlist files. The last opened or saved playlist file shall be remembered the next time the program is started, but playlists are not saved automatically.
Playlists are simple text files, with a file name on each text line. The file names can be relative to the location of the playlist file itself (so they do not have an absolute path prepended) or each file can have an absolute path on its own.
Users may have several playlists that can be created easily outside of the program, for instance in the Linux command line this command creates a playlist file named “my_playlist.lst” with all the MIDI files located at the working directory:
$ ls -1 *.mid > my_playlist.lst
Environment
- DRUMSTICKRT
Location of Drumstick::RT plugins. Useful if the plugins are not installed at a standard place.
Bugs
See Tickets at Sourceforge <https://sourceforge.net/p/dmidiplayer/tickets/> and GitHub <https://github.com/pedrolcl/dmidiplayer/issues/>
See Also
Authors
Pedro López-Cabanillas <plcl@users.sf.net>.