MPLAY

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BSD mandoc
TCLM Jan 10, 1993

NAME

mplay - a tclm script to play Standard MIDI Files

SYNOPSIS

[-repeat ] [-tracks tracks ] [-speed speed ] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

is a tclm(1) script that plays Standard MIDI Files. Multiple files may be specified on the command line, or files can be read from stdin The options are as follows:

-repeat: Play the first file repeatedly. The playing will continue until the process is killed.
-tracks: Specifies a list of tracks to be played instead of the default, which is to play all tracks. This option has an argument that lists the tracks. The argument needs to be treated as one argument instead of multiple values, and thus should be enclosed in double or single quotes.
-speed: Specifies a tempo modifier. The argument to this option is a float value that acts as a multiplier for the tempo values found in the Standard MIDI Files. MPU-401 compatible devices only use the range 0 to 4.

Since makes use of the midiplay(3) tclm(1) command, this program will only work if tclm(1) was compiled with a device interface. This can be determined at run-time by using the midiplayable(3) command.

AUTHORS

Mike Durian - durian@advtech.uswest.com