H2PLAYER(1)

NAME
h2player - a CLI player for Hydrogen songs.

SYNOPSIS

h2player *.h2song

DESCRIPTION

h2player can play a song created with Hydrogen without starting its GUI. It does not support any options but can be controlled via keyboard inputs while running.

You start h2player using a particular song file. It will use all its solo/mute settings as well as audio driver and transport settings from your last Hydrogen session. If you do not hear any sounds, make sure you get some when opening the song in plain Hydrogen and hitting play right away.

While running, the application can be controlled using your keyboard. Typing one of the characters below will result in the following actions:

    b - Rewind to the beginning of the song.

    p - Start playback.

    s - Stop playback.

    q - Quit h2player.

    f - Show the current transport position in frames.

FILES
For a comprehensive list of files, configuration, and environmental variables, please see the man page of hydrogen itself.

BUGS & FEATURES REQUEST

If you find any bug or if you would like to propose a new feature, please report it to https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues

AUTHORS

The hydrogen development team. See complete list at Hydrogen's "About" Dialog. You can contact them at <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

Subscription to the mailing list can be done here :
    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel .

SEE ALSO
The main graphical application
    hydrogen(1)

A CLI tool for exporting songs and batch processing drumkits
    h2cli(1)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Alessandro Cominu
Copyright (C) 2008-2025 The hydrogen development team

Hydrogen is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL version 2 or later.