<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>MusE: Linux Music Editor</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css"> </head> <body> <center><h1>MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor</h1></center> <h2>3. Invoking MusE</h2> <p> <h2>3.1 Invoking MusE</h2> MusE is invoked from the command line by typing in: <pre> <tt>muse</tt> </pre> Optionally, you can use command line options of the form: <pre> muse <options> <midifile> </pre> <options> : see section 3.2 below for details on options. <midifile> can be either a standard MIDI file or a MusE file (*.med, *.med.gz or *.med.bz2). <h2>3.2 Command Line Options</h2> <p> MusE accepts some options as listed below: <pre> -v print version -d debug mode: no threads -D debug mode: enable some debug messages -m debug mode: trace midi Input -M debug mode: trace midi Output -s debug mode: trace sync -R enable real time scheduling </pre> <h2>3.3 File Types Recognized by MusE</h2> <p> <table border=1 cellpadding=5> <tr><td><tt>~/.MusE<td>MusE Configuration File ("~" refers to your home directory) <tr><td><tt>.musePrj<td>Hidden Project File; stores list of last projects <tr><td><tt>*.med<td>MusE song file; internal MusE format <tr><td><tt>*.mid<td>midi file; can be imported <tr><td><tt>*.kar<td>karaoke: midi file with additional information; some types can be imported </table> <p> With adding the additional extensions <tt>.gz</tt> or <tt>.bz2</tt> you can read or write compressed files. </qt>