On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:00:26AM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > Midiplay requires a midi synth to produce sounds. We dropped support > > for OPL2-style chips, as we've two softsynths in ports to render > > midi. Both already handle .mid files, so midiplay is not very useful > > anymore. > > > > Objections to remove it? > > What is the alternative for hardware synths?
There would be no alternative in base. But there are ports that can play .mid files (and much more), the smfplay utility coming with audio/midish is very similar to midiplay: > I used to use this to send sysex messages to reset my mt32 and play > midi files back when I still had a machine with a midi interface > (via a pci soundcard). The plan is to add a new midicat utility very soon, which can be used, amongst others, to send sysex files (assuming .syx file format, aka raw midi data). However, it's very easy to extend it to handle .mid files, so if you think .mid file support in base should stay, I'll do so. What do you think?
