On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 02:07:16 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu said: > I find Audacious quite better than timidity for playing midi pieces.
And a small audacious/midi how to (just in case someone needs it): http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1143?r=1610 "The MIDI plugin requires some configuration before it will work. To get to the settings for it, go to File menu -> Preferences -> Plugins page -> Input tab. Select "AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player)" in the list of plugins and click on the Preferences button at the bottom. This will bring up a new window. Select FluidSynth in the backend list. Now go to the FluidSynth tab on the left. There will be a list (probably empty) of SoundFont files. You can use whatever SoundFont you like, but I recommend that you install the fluid-soundfont-gm package (Debian and Fedora both provide it) and add /usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2 to the list (click on the "+" button on the right to get a file browser window). Then you should be good to go!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~ How I did it: ~# apt-get install audacious fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs Go to audacious settings and add the following soundfont files as per the explanation above: Add: /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 Add: /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2 That's all. Audacity should now be able to play midi files. Note that I have installed both fluid-soundfont-gm and fluid-soundfont-gs, but I believe "gm" supersedes "gs", so fluid-soundfont-gs is probably be redundant. -- Abdullah Ramazanoğlu - İstanbul, Türkiye
