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.

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 --locked

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 . --locked

To use the jack backend:

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

Usage

``` plmidi [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS: -d, --device The index of the MIDI device that will be used for synthesis. [default: 0] -h, --help Print help information -l, --list List available MIDI output devices. -t, --transpose Transpose the track by n semitones. -v, --verbose Verbosity; specify twice for even more verbose output. -V, --version Print version information -x, --speed The playback rate, 1.0 = normal. [default: 1.0] ```