[PLUG] Playing MIDI.

[Alice Corbin]

First off, are you sure that you have a midi enabled sound card?
You might want to try running timidity from the command line on
your midi file to see if it does anything.  Or playmidi -f might
work as well.
Ali

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:20:13PM -0700, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to play MIDI.
> 
> I've got playmidi installed and I've doublechecked my kernel build and I
> have the SBLive! MIDI support compiled.
> 
> jbrelin at person:~$ ls -l /dev/sequencer /dev/midi*
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       35,   0 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi0
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,   2 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi00
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,  18 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi01
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,  34 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi02
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,  50 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi03
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       35,   1 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi1
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       35,   2 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi2
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       35,   3 Feb 24  2001 /dev/midi3
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,   1 Feb 24  2001 /dev/sequencer
> 
> 
> Yet:
> jbrelin at person:~$ playmidi agplez.midi 
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi
> Iwai
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details please see the file COPYING.
> 
> And it hangs for quite a while then exits.  I assume it thinks it's
> playing.  No sound, though.
> 
> I also tried, by the way, the TiMiDiTy plug-in for XMMS and got
> nothing... that is, xmms doesn't even recognize the midi file as something
> it might even want to try to play even though the plug-in is present and
> enabled in the input plug-in browser.
> 
> Any other methods I'm not trying here?
> 
> J.
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