[LAU] alsa sequencer port numbering

[Gwenhwyfaer]

Lacking either connected MIDI hardware or a MIDI file to play, I was
limited in how much testing I could do; however, the aplaymidi man
page says it wants -p CLIENT:PORT but will assume port 0 if just given
a client. So it appears that you would be able to use:

aplaymidi -p 20
aplaymidi -p 20:0
aplaymidi -p 'Ensoniq AudioPCI'
aplaymidi -p 'Ensoniq AudioPCI:ES1371'
aplaymidi -p 'Ensoniq AudioPCI:0'
aplaymidi -p 20:ES1371

but not

aplaymidi -p 0
aplaymidi -p ES1371

Does that clarify matters?

On 19/11/2010, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
>> Oops, sorry I think you need to address the client name, not the port
>> name,
>> so in your case something like aplaymidi -p "Ensoniq AudioPCI":0 But then
>> aplaymidi needs to support that and according to its man page it does. So
>> you can even use just aplaymidi -p Ensoniq
>
> Okay ... learn something new every day! I had no idea one could use a
> device name.
>
> But, it doesn't seem to work here :)
>
> First, the version of aplaymidi I have.
>
> bob$ aplaymidi -V
> aplaymidi version 1.0.23
>
> And, I checked the man page and it does say one can use the device name.
>
> And the ports are:
>
> bob$ aplaymidi -l
>  Port    Client name                      Port name
>  14:0    Midi Through                     Midi Through Port-0
>  20:0    Ensoniq AudioPCI                 ES1371
>
> But, it doesn't work as advertised:
>
> bob$ aplaymidi -p ES1271 test.mid
> Invalid port ES1271 - No such file or directory
>
> or
>
> bob$ aplaymidi -pEnsoniq test.mid
> Invalid port Ensoniq - No such file or directory
>
> However, it does appear that a full name does work:
>
> bob$ aplaymidi -p "Ensoniq AudioPCI" test.mid
>
> And export ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS="Ensoniq AudioPCI" also seems to work.
>
> is something broken here since I can't use "Ensoniq" or "ES1271" ?
>
>
>
>
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