On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 11:14 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:OK, I suspect this is your problem: FF as installed has a plugin to handle midi files, and it is enabled. This means that if the plugin doesn't actually play the file, then you have to get FF to use a "helper" app. To do this, click Edit->Preferences->Downloads. Click on the button that says Plugins and UN-check the midi plugin. You will then be able to add a helper app that points to timidity or whatever.
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....
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