midi

[Cyber Source]

Ok, I played with this a while back because my step-mother was using FC 
and some friend of hers was sending her midi files or stupid emails with 
midi's playing as background music, etc.. You can tell your email app to 
use timidity but then you notice that you can't stop the file until the 
end because you have not gui control, etc.. So, you already have it 
installed, good. You could easily do "yum install timidity++" for those 
that don't have it. However, this won't give you a gui, it needs to be 
compiled in and the called when executing the binary. Go to 
http://timidity.sourceforge.net and download the lastest, LEAVE THE ONE 
YOU HAVE INSTALLED ALREADY, you'll see why in a minute. Compile the 
downloaded timidity, I used the following options, the install file 
explains all,
./configure --enable-audio=default 
--enable-interface=gtk,ncurses,motif,tcltk,xskin,slang --enable-network 
--enable-spectrogram
Then make, make install. This will put the executable in 
/usr/local/bin/timidity. One HUGE thing that will be missing is the 
timidity.cfg file but the install from yum (or rpm) will have one at 
/etc/timidity.cfg. Copy this file to 
/usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg. Do a "which timidity", if it 
comes back /usr/local/bin/timidity it's ok, that's the one put on from 
the compile, if not, after you copied the cfg file, you can rpm -e the 
installed timidity rpm (rpm -qa|grep midity) will give the exact name, 
left some out for case, etc. The whole reason to leave or use the 
rpm/yum install was to get the cfg file, if you have a look at that 
monster, you'll see it's no cake to figure out.
Now, timidity -ig should fire it up with the gtk gui, try it out, let me 
know.

jb wrote:

>I found something that may help with diagnosing the problem. If I right click 
>on the mid file and click open with and navigate to /usr/bin/timidity the 
>file will play but I have no visual control, it just plays until it stops. 
>Not sure if that tidbit helps but it seems like it narrows things down a bit. 
>At least it isn't a hardware problem and the comp is capable of playing that 
>file type? Must be a setting somewhere...
>jb
>On Mon October 10 2005 15:36, jb wrote:
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>>I'm using FC4 and I tried to play a mid music file and no sound. In the
>>control center I tested MIDI and nothing. In the hardware section it has
>>select midi device and the only selection is Midi Through Midi Through
>>Port-o-ALSA device. I'm not sure what to try next, I tried alsaconfig in a
>>terminal but it said command not found. Not sure what to try next. I can
>>play other types like mp3, is there a setting I need to do or do I need a
>>plugin to play mid files? I didn't have any problem with them when I was
>>using RH9 so the hardware isn't a problem just a setting or a missing lib
>>or something? Any help would be appreciated.
>>jb
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