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| author | Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> | 2011-11-02 19:44:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> | 2011-11-02 20:03:42 +0100 |
| commit | 8f7b63be0430bc63caf6bbeca7bc3677a40f7cab (patch) | |
| tree | d8ecb47df39cfa8ba1132a05f0db7fd6b98b7311 /seq | |
| parent | 4c09aaa5c13c2260fea57a89c47f88252da8a692 (diff) | |
| download | alsa-utils-8f7b63be0430bc63caf6bbeca7bc3677a40f7cab.tar.gz | |
aplaymidi: clarify multi-port documentation
The man page did not document what happens when multiple ports are
specified; this could be misinterpreted as the events being duplicated
so that they are played on all ports simultaneously. As suggested by
Peter Billam, clarify that these ports are only used for multi-port MIDI
files.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'seq')
| -rw-r--r-- | seq/aplaymidi/aplaymidi.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/seq/aplaymidi/aplaymidi.1 b/seq/aplaymidi/aplaymidi.1 index 0134129..02fef9d 100644 --- a/seq/aplaymidi/aplaymidi.1 +++ b/seq/aplaymidi/aplaymidi.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH APLAYMIDI 1 "15 Feb 2004" +.TH APLAYMIDI 1 "2 Nov 2011" .SH NAME aplaymidi \- play Standard MIDI Files @@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ A client can be specified by its number, its name, or a prefix of its name. A port is specified by its number; for port 0 of a client, the ":0" part of the port specification can be omitted. +Multiple ports can be specified to allow playback of MIDI file(s) that +contain events for multiple devices (ports), as specified by "Port +Number" meta events. + For compatibility with .B pmidi(1), the port specification is taken from the @@ -46,6 +50,10 @@ environment variable if none is given on the command line. Specifies how long to wait after the end of each MIDI file, to allow the last notes to die away. +.SH BUGS +.B aplaymidi +handles "Port Number" meta events, but not "Port Name" meta events. + .SH SEE ALSO pmidi(1) .br |