Re: MIDI questions
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:03:43 -0400, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed
> playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following error:
>
> mns@xander:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi
> IwaiThis is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details please see the file COPYING.
> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
>
> but, when I take a look in /dev, I see:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 12 23:08 sequencer
>
> I am in the audio group, so it does not seem to be a permissions thing.
> Is there something else that I am missing?
>
> Also, is there a package that will allow me to convert a MIDI file to
> .wav format so that I can burn it to CD with XCDRoast?
>
I know that the timidity package has the ability to output to various
audio file formats, like wav and ogg. For the first question, i've no
idea...
Andrea
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