Re: Playing midi files
On 8/3/19, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, Vojt?ch ?miro wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:53:20
>> From: Vojt?ch ?miro <vsmiro@seznam.cz>
>> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Playing midi files
>> Resent-Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 13:53:36 +0000 (UTC)
>> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Please, is some way to play midi files in Debian or another linux distro
>> such
>> as Fedora or Ubuntu? I've looked and tested some things, but midi don't
>> play.
>
> Have you installed vlc with all dependencies yet? If so, try rvlc
> file.mp3 or rvlc file.mp4 or rvlc file.ogg and the other thing necessary
> is to install vlc-pulseaudio since that's already on the system optional
> dependency for vlc when pulseaudio lives on the system.
Hi, Vojta.. I also just ran "apt-cache search midi player" and saw
two potential potentials jump out from the list: playmidi and pmidi.
Sounds like pmidi is terminal only and possibly only plays midi files.
Playmidi sounds a little more... elaborate.. fancy. Its description says:
"Playmidi is a MIDI file player that will play back using FM, GUS,
SoundBlaster or external MIDI. It also supports Creative Music Files
(CMF), Microsoft RIFF (RMI) files and large MIDI archives from games
such as Ultima "
I'm not fully grasping if that means it will only work with additional
add-ons or if it will work out-of-the-box PLUS has those additional
User-friendly features available if needed or wanted.
Just looked at that "apt-get search midi player" query feedback again.
A couple more things might work including "pykaraoke" which describes
itself as a "free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player." That sounds FUN.
Am noticing that the word "sequencer" received a few references. I
don't know if that implies "thus plays midi files" because I don't
have anything to test drive that theory. Am mentioning it in case that
helps Users perform very targeted searches for this topic.
Hope that helps someone out here.. :)
Cindy :)
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