1% DMIDIPLAYER(1) dmidiplayer 0.0.0 | Drumstick MIDI File Player
2% Pedro López-Cabanillas <plcl@users.sf.net>
3
4# NAME
5
6**dmidiplayer** — Plays MIDI, Karaoke and Cakewalk Files
7
8# SYNOPSIS
9
10| **dmidiplayer** \[**-p**|**--portable**] [**-f**|**--file** _file_] [**-d**|**--driver** _driver_] [**-c**|**--connection** _connection_] \[_midi_files_]
11| **dmidiplayer** \[**-h**|**--help**|**-v**|**--version**]
12
13# DESCRIPTION
14
15This program is a multiplatform MIDI file player for Linux, Windows and macOS.
16It reads .MID (Standard MIDI Files), .KAR (Karaoke), .RMI (RIFF RMID), and .WRK (Cakewalk) file formats,
17and outputs MIDI events to hardware MIDI ports and also software synths.
18
19## Options
20
21-h, --help
22
23:   Prints brief usage information.
24
25-v, --version
26
27:   Prints the current version number.
28
29-p, --portable
30
31:   Portable settings mode.
32
33-f, --file _portableFile_
34
35:   Portable settings file name.
36
37-d, --driver _driver_
38
39:   Drumstick::RT MIDI Out Driver.
40
41-c, --connection _connection_
42
43:   Drumstick::RT MIDI Out Connection.
44
45## Standard Options
46
47The following options apply to all Qt5 applications:
48
49-style= _style_ / -style _style_
50:   Set the application GUI style. Possible values depend on the system configuration.
51    If Qt is compiled with additional styles or has additional styles as plugins these
52    will be available to the -style command line option.
53
54-stylesheet= _stylesheet_ / -stylesheet _stylesheet_
55:   Set the application styleSheet. The value must be a path to a file that contains the Style Sheet.
56
57-widgetcount
58:   Print debug message at the end about number of widgets left undestroyed and maximum number of widgets existed at the same time.
59
60-reverse
61:   Set the application's layout direction to Qt::RightToLeft. This option is intended to aid debugging and should not be used in production.
62    The default value is automatically detected from the user's locale (see also QLocale::textDirection()).
63
64-platform _platformName[:options]_
65:   Specify the Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) plugin.
66
67-platformpluginpath _path_
68:   Specify the path to platform plugins.
69
70-platformtheme _platformTheme_
71:   Specify the platform theme.
72
73-plugin _plugin_
74:   Specify additional plugins to load. The argument may appear multiple times.
75
76-qwindowgeometry _geometry_
77:   Specify the window geometry for the main window using the X11-syntax. For example: -qwindowgeometry 100x100+50+50
78
79-qwindowicon _icon_
80:   Set the default window icon.
81
82-qwindowtitle _title_
83:   Set the title of the first window.
84
85-session _session_
86:   Restore the application from an earlier session.
87
88-display _hostname:screen_number_
89:   Switch displays on X11. Overrides the DISPLAY environment variable.
90
91-geometry _geometry_
92:   Specify the window geometry for the main window on X11. For example: -geometry 100x100+50+50
93
94-dialogs= _[xp|none]_
95:   Only available for the Windows platform. XP uses native style dialogs and none disables them.
96
97-fontengine= _freetype_
98:   Use the FreeType font engine.
99
100## Arguments
101
102_midi_files_
103
104:   Input MID/KAR/RMI/WRK file name(s). The set of provided file names becomes a temporary playlist.
105
106# FILES
107
108*\*.lst*
109
110:   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.
111
112    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.
113
114    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:
115
116~~~
117$ ls -1 *.mid > my_playlist.lst
118~~~
119
120# ENVIRONMENT
121
122**DRUMSTICKRT**
123
124:   Location of Drumstick::RT plugins. Useful if the plugins are not installed at a standard place.
125
126# BUGS
127
128See Tickets at Sourceforge <https://sourceforge.net/p/dmidiplayer/tickets/> and GitHub <https://github.com/pedrolcl/dmidiplayer/issues/>
129
130# SEE ALSO
131
132**qt5options (7)**
133