From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Lehan Subject: Re: New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:14:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4C1090E7.9050602@krellan.com> References: <4C0DF2A8.8000305@krellan.com> <20100608080251.GD2695@buzzloop.caiaq.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from server3.hostdango.com (server3.hostdango.com [67.222.146.219]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B468310397F for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:14:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20100608080251.GD2695@buzzloop.caiaq.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Daniel Mack Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Josh Lehan List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 06/08/2010 01:02 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:35:04AM -0700, Josh Lehan wrote: >> Hello. On the mailing list a few months ago, mentioned a program I had >> written, then called "midicat". Found out there's another product by >> that name. So, the new name of the program is "amidicat". The "a" >> prefix also clarifies that it's an ALSA program. >> >> It's a program that connects the ALSA MIDI sequencer to standard input >> and output. Among other things, this is fun for prototyping quick MIDI >> one-liners on the command line, such as "echo 903C7F | amidicat" to play >> Middle C. >> >> I have made a new release of the program, which is basically unchanged, >> except for a few bug fixes (thanks to Valgrind for discovering a minor >> memory leak). The biggest improvement is that there's now a manual page >> and a DocBook documentation page. >> >> Here's the webpage for amidicat, if interested: >> >> http://www.krellan.com/amidicat/ > > Again, thanks. Any chance that any Debian maintainer reading this can > take care for bringing this useful tool to the repositories? > > Daniel You're welcome! On the mailing list a while ago, Takashi Iwai mentioned it would be nice to have in alsa-utils. That would be a great place for it, and it would fit in well with the other "a" tools there. Then, all repositories would get it, not just Debian :) Josh Lehan