Clemens Ladisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Will wrote: >> How easy would it be to make aplaymidi be able to adjust the playback speed >> like playmidi? (playmidi -t 0.5 music.mid plays at twice the default speed) > >Very easy.
1 hour of code changes? >> How easy would it be to make aplaymidi be able to move forwards and backwards >> during playback, e.g. by pressing f or b, like Takashi Iwai's drvmidi? > >Not so easy; even more so if you want to have correct controller >values. Adjusting settings changed by sysexs would be almost >impossible. > I wonder whether drvmidi actually does correctly restore controller and sysex when you move during MIDI playback. I haven't studied the drvmidi code in detail. I know the sound quality always seems to be correct even when you move forwards and backwards very often in a piece with lots of sysex and controller settings. >However, these tools are meant as basic command-line utilities (and >examples). I think your suggestions would fit better into some GUI >player. Yes, you're right a GUI player can be much more powerful but I also like command-line players like drvmidi because you can always run them without X and moving forwards and backwards using the ncurses interface is easy. It's a useful minimum functionality (being able to move forwards and backwards in a MIDI file while it's playing) but it sounds like it'd be difficult to extend arecordmidi to do this. William ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
