pw-mididump(1)

pw-mididump1

The pipewire midi dump

Usage

pw-mididump [options] [FILE]

Overview

Dump MIDI messages to stdout.

When a MIDI file is given, the events inside the file are printed.

When no file is given, pw-mididump creates a PipeWire MIDI input stream and will print all MIDI events received on the port to stdout.

Options

-r | --remote=NAME

The name the remote instance to monitor. If left unspecified, a connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.

-h | --help

Show help.

--version

Show version information.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Authors

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

From pipewire-audio 1:1.6.10-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.