plmidi

A command line MIDI player.

Installation

Windows: With Scoop

First add my bucket to scoop:\ scoop bucket add insomnia https://github.com/inssomnimus/scoop-bucket

Update scoop:\ scoop update

Install the app:\ scoop install plmidi

Download a pre-built release binary

Grab a binary for your platform from the releases page.

BYOB: Build Your Own Binary

Feature Flags

You can choose a different audio backend using one of the following feature flags:

• --features=jack: Use the Jack backend.
• --features=winrt: Use the WinRT backend. Note that currently WinRT does not recognize OmniMidi or Virtual Midi Synth so I wouldn't recommend it.
• --features=fluid: Enable fluidlite as a built-in MIDI synthesizer (requires libfluidlite and pkg-config to be present on your system).
• --features=fluid-bundled: Enable fluidlite as a built-in MIDI synthesizer; use the bundled library.

You might want to build from source if, for example you wish to use the jack backend.

You need an up to date rust toolchain installed.

On *NIX systems, you also need alsa development libraries:

```sh

Debian and derivatives

apt install libasound2-dev

RHEL and derivatives

dnf install alsa-lib-devel ```

To use the jack backend, you also need jack development libraries:

```sh

Debian and derivatives

apt install libjack-jackd2-dev

RHEL and derivatives

dnf install jack-audio-connection-kit-devel ```

You can install from crates.io: cargo install plmidi

Or, you can clone it:

```shell

to install after a git clone

git clone https://github.com/insomnimus/plmidi cd plmidi git checkout main cargo install --path .

To use the jack backend:

cargo install --path . --locked --features=jack

To enable built-in fluidsynth support:

cargo install --path . --features fluid ```

Usage

• plmidi foo.mid
• plmidi --device 2 foo.mid
• (if you enabled the feature fluid or fluid-bundled) plmidi --fluidsynth ~/soundfonts/some-soundfont.sf2 foo.mid