Re: mplayer2 does not play MIDI files.
Good time of the day, Rob.
Big thanks for Your time and answer! You wrote:
> You can use timidity for midi files. I wrote this a while back to
> convert a bunch of midi files to ogg. Beware -- it deletes the midi
> files after conversion.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for file in *.mid; do
> WAVFILE=$(basename $file mid)wav
> OGGFILE=$(basename $file mid)ogg
> timidity $file -Ow -o $WAVFILE && rm $file
> ffmpeg -i $WAVFILE -acodec vorbis $OGGFILE && rm $WAVFILE
> done
>
>
> I'm sure there are better ways of doing it. Also, note that it uses
> ffmpeg. That has been replaced in Debian with something else.
> ffmpeg is still available in the 3rd-party deb-multimedia repo, but I
> think you might as well use oggenc instead of ffmpeg anyway.
No problem, I will solve that convertion myself. I thought I could play
MIDI w/ mplayer2 - I did install/remove a lot of software - thinking it
will help me w/ some sound fonts, etc. I too use timidity for playing
MIDI.
Sthu.
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