GNU Solfege 1
solfege GPL'ed ear training software
`/usr/bin/solfege` `-h` `-?` `--usage` `-v` `-w` `--no-splash` `--no-sound`
`--verbose-sound-init`

## Description

GNU Solfege is a program that let you use your computer to do ear training. You will get the most complete version of the program if you run it on a machine that has GNOME installed. But it will also run on more limited setups like linux or win32 with only python, gtk+ and PyGTK installed.

This man page contains info to get Solfege up and running. For help on using the program, please use the online documentation.

## Options

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

`-h` `--help`

  Show summary of options.

`-?` `--gtk-help`

  Show summary of Gtk/GNOME options.

`--usage`

  Short version of `--gtk-help`.

`-v` `--version`

  Show program version.

`-w` `--warranty`

  There is no warranty.

`--no-splash`

  Do not show the startup window.

`--no-sound`

  Do not try to play any sounds. Instead some data is printed to standard output. Use this for debugging and porting.

`--verbose-sound-init`

  Print some info about the sound setup while starting.

## Bugs

Plenty! You can report them to bug-solfege@gnu.org, or even better: post a patch to fix it to the same address. Remember to tell what version of Solfege you are running and the name and version of you operation system.

## Files

`~/.solfegerc2.0`

  This file is used to store most configuration values. While it is possible to edit the file by hand, everything you need can and should be done from the gui.

`~/.solfege2.0`

  Statistics is stored in subdirectories below this dir.

## NOTES

If you don't have `/dev/music` it is possible that your kernel supports it. Try to create the device file yourself (as root):

    cd /dev
    mknod music u 14 8

To get more help on `solfege`, use the online documentation, look at the files in `/usr/share/doc/solfege` (debian users) and the `README` and `INSTALL` file from the downloaded .tar.gz file. If you have problems running `solfege` please post your questions to solfege-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Remember to mention what version of Solfege you have, and the name and version of your operating system. If possible, please check that the bug exists in the latest version of Solfege.

## Copyright

GNU Solfege is Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by Tom Cato Amundsen tca@gnu.org.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

## Author

Main author of GNU Solfege and this manual page is Tom Cato Amundsen tca@gnu.org. For more details, read the `AUTHORS` file from the source tarball.