Invoking MusE

MusE is invoked from the command line by typing in:

 muse

Optionally, you can use command line options of the form:

 muse <options> <midifile>

<options> : see section xyz? below for details on options. <midifile> can be either a standard MIDI file or a MusE file (*.med, *.med.gz or *.med.bz2).

Command Line Options

MusE accepts some options as listed below:

• -a start in midi-only mode
• -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
• -P n set real ime priority to n (default: 50)
• -p don't load LADSPA plugins
• -v print version

Example:
"muse -m -a mysong.med" will add trace midi input, only use midi and open mysong.med on startup.

File Types Recognized by MusE

MusE Configuration File ("~" refers to your home directory aka "/home/tux")

  ~/.MusE

Hidden Project File; stores list of last projects

  ~/.musePrj

MusE song file; internal MusE format

  .med

midi file; can be imported

  .mid

karaoke: midi file with additional information; some types can be imported

  .kar

Stored midi parts, these are an alternative way of storing structures in muse.

  .mpt

Stored plugin presets

  .pre
 

Hint: In some versions < 0.6.3 MusE loaded the old configuration from ~/.musePrj or ~/.MusE and because it didn't work then you could have also tried removing or at least moving this files out of the way temporary for testing purposes.