![]() ![]() Good to share the MIDIs with those who don’t have proper midi player or good soundfont. Timidity will also direct output to audio file (could be mp3 or ogg) with the identical sound so you can use them on any player. In fact, although timidity is a command line tool, it can not only play files one-at-a-time, but also can play an entire directory. If you want a playlist and graphical interface and controls, a proposed solution is Audacious, I.e.,Īudacious + AMidi Plug Plugin + fluid-soundfont-gmīut I don’t know how legitimate or how feasible is that, because it is from the same author that said “timidity + fluid-soundfont-gm” will work and provide “excellent sound”. This only works in terminal and can only play one midi file at a time. Or, if you want a GUI, you can simply type timidity -ig You can play a midi file directly from the command timidity followed by the file name. If so, congratulations, your midi is working. Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192ĪLSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes Run timidity -iA in terminal first to check/get started.Sudo apt-get install freepats timidity timidity-interfaces-extra Install all required pacages by running.So the total solution for play midi files under Ubuntu is: What’s missing is the package freepats, available from Ubuntu 14.04 onward. Thanks to John O’M, The puzzle is now complete. Timidity: Error reading configuration file.įollowing another article and adding fluid-soundfont-gm to the installation does not solve the problem at all. etc/timidity/freepats.cfg: No such file or directory However, all that I got is: $ timidity awesometune.mid Here is how I get it working.Īfter an exhausted search from Google, this is what I came back as the conclusion: sudo apt-get install timidity timidity-interfaces-extra I’ve exhausted all my google searched but still having trouble to piece together the puzzles into a whole piece.įinally with the help from John O’M, it is working for me now. Hence all documents/blogs/how-tos on playing midi under Linux are more or less outdated. Playing midi under Linux is an old topic that nobody talks about nowadays. How to play midi files under Ubuntu Linux ![]()
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