On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:24 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 23:25, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:17 +0200, Alan Lake wrote: > > > I am not able to play MIDI files with XMMS or KMID. > > > > > > I'm running vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen on an AMD x86_64 box. My sound > > > card is on the motherboard and is an nForce3 AC'97. I added AMIDI-plug > > > 0.6 to XMMS. I'm using ALSA backend 0.8, which outputs to Midi Through > > > at port 14:0. My mixer setting is 0:Synth:0. The Alsamixer shows PCM > > > as turned on. MIDI music appears to play, but no sound comes out. XMMS > > > does play some other formats, like ogg. > > > > > > Thanks for helping to figure out how to configure xmms so as to be able > > > to play MIDI files. > > > > I've about given up on native midi support, so I use timidity which > > works like a champ. It works and sounds great for midi files, if all you > > want to do is listen to them. Ric > > So how exactly are you using it? Just from the CLI - 'timidity filename.mid'? Yup, works like a charm... it could use updating as there are soundfont files for timidity that I don't believe are installed by default. Listening to "Here comes the sun" George Harrison. A good way to start the day! Ric
