[LAU] alsa sequencer port numbering

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 11/19/2010 09:29 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Jeremy Jongepier
>>
>> But it always has port name ES1371. You can use that too instead of the port
>> number. In what context are you facing this issue? A script? Session
>> management?
>>
>
> Yes, it is always ES1371. Mostly I use aplaymidi and it picks up the
> port number from the ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS variable set in my .bashrc.
>
> I suppose I could somehow set this via a script ... but seems a bit awkward?
>

But how do you use aplaymidi? It doesn't matter if you use either 
aplaymidi -p 20:0 or aplaymidi -p ES1371:0 so I'm still a bit confused here.

Best,

Jeremy