MIDI file player like aplaymidi on Linux (MIDI output, no audio), with more interactive features

Question

I'm looking for an application on Linux who can read MIDI files and play them to a MIDI channel (ALSA or JACK).

aplaymidi does this well, but I need additional features:

• Hot reloading when the file has been updated;
• Interactive features: view the clock in live, be able to move on the timeline.

A text-based application would be preferred.

Is there a program which can do this?

Answer 1

I didn't find some program which did fit all my needs, so I wrote a CLI player to remedy this, which has these features:

• hot reload, even when playing;
• can move forward and backward;
• can restrict the play zone precisely, in order to work on a part of the score;
• loop mode;
• auto-return mode (go back to where the play started after pausing).

Here is the repo, for those who are interested: https://gitlab.com/yolenoyer/midiplay (Rust toolchain is needed for compiling).