On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 11:14 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:25:54 -0700 > Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:46 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > A recent thread on playing midi files with TiMidity got me to wondering > > > about a problem I have. > > > > > > One web site that I love has music that plays with the pages. They play > > > when I use Windows, but on Linux they don't. I wondered why since I > > > have most of the music formats playable with XMMS and others. > > > > > > When I checked this site i found all the music files are midi (.mid) > > > files. > > > > > > Now my quest is to find out how to get firefox on Fedora to play > > > the .mid files that web pages may use. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to get firefox to play the .mid files? > > > > > > I also seem to need a little help with installing/configuring TiMidity > > > to play regular .mid files locally. > > > I have installed timidity after compiling but when I try to open a .mid > > > file it fails because the timidity.cfg file is not found. Documentation > > > is too sparse to let me know the minimum content of this file necessary > > > to play .mid files. > > > > > > Can someone share their timidity.cfg file so I can play .mid files? > > ---- > > Methinks that the cfg is a waste of time - it's probably generated by > > your install... > > > > The timidity.cfg file is at /etc/timidity.cfg > Do a man 5 timidity.cfg to see what it contains. > Actually it did not get put there (or anywhere else) by compiling/installing from the tar ball. I searched rpmfind.net and was able to locate an RPM (for Suse 9.1 but it works well for FC3) and install that. It put the needed cfg file at /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg so now the files can be played locally. Now all I need is the means to make firefox play the midi files....
