musserv - music server for lxdoom and related games

musserv [options] [MUSfile [FM-patch file]]

musserv is the music-playing server used by lxdoom for music output.

It is not likely of any use to the average end-user, except for in conjunction with lxdoom.

-l

Will list all synth devices reported by the OSS drivers (which should be the same as reported by /proc/sound or /dev/sndstat) and exit.

-f

Forces the use of FM-synth even if an AWE32 is detected.

-a

Only use the AWE synth. Not necessary, should be autodetected.

-m

Use a generic (by default the last found) midi synth device

-u

specify a device number for the synth or midi device to use. Necessary if there is more that one device for a given synth type (fm, awe, or midi). This is usually required for midi devices. Look at the output of "musserv -l" for the number to use.

-v

Verbose. Musserver is usually silent. This turns on output.

-h

Gives terse usage information.

-1

For FM-synth, do not use the secondary voice of double-voice channels. Instruments will sound poorer, but there should be less dropped notes. Musserv auto-tunes depending on your card, so this option shouldn't be necessary, unless you want to hear it just like in the old days ;-)

-2

For FM-synth, force the use of the secondary voice, even on soundcards with limited voices. Can cause a great deal of note-droppage on these cards.

-B

Don't increase pitch by an octave when doing FM. Only for really old voxware drivers (950728).

-D

Causes all songs + the FM-patch info to be dumped to files.

lxmusserv was written by Rafael Reilova (rreilova@ececs.uc.edu), based on the code written by Michael Heasley (mheasley@hmc.edu), and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

This manual page was written by Joe Drew <drew@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere under the GPL.