Re: midi-files

"Helge Haensel" <dj1wm@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> Hallo NG!
>
> My homepage  includes midi-files for  background music. But  the are
> not played.

They don't play for me either.  mplayer trys to play them but just get
bails.  This could  be my problem, since I run  Gentoo and this distro
allows you to compile ALL packages with user settings/options.

1. Does the sound play when you try it with Firefox?

2. What plugin / application have you assigned to midi / mid files?

3. Do any of the midi / mid files at this link play (audio) for you?

http://www.piano-midi.de/midi_files.htm

Good luck.

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Hallo NG!

My  homepage includes midi-files for background music. But the are not  
played.
What might be missing?

Vy 73! Helge
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:36:19 +0200, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:

> "Helge Haensel" <dj1wm@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> Hallo NG!
>>
>> My homepage  includes midi-files for  background music. But  the are
>> not played.
>
> They don't play for me either.  mplayer trys to play them but just get
> bails.  This could  be my problem, since I run  Gentoo and this distro
> allows you to compile ALL packages with user settings/options.
>
> 1. Does the sound play when you try it with Firefox?
>
> 2. What plugin / application have you assigned to midi / mid files?
>
> 3. Do any of the midi / mid files at this link play (audio) for you?
>
> http://www.piano-midi.de/midi_files.htm
>
> Good luck.
>
Hi, thanks for response.
I possibly was a little short with my question.
I am using Ubuntu 7.10, Opera 9.27. Starting Opera and loading a webpage  
with *.mid files  it asks
for importing plug-ins. Did that as requested, no problems. Next time the  
page opens but still no
midi. Btw kmid also does not play midi's, just opens and does nothing.

To 1. FF does not play midi's
To 2. Don't know, where to look for that?
To 3. No.

"Helge Haensel" <dj1wm@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:36:19 +0200, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:
>
>> "Helge Haensel" <dj1wm@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hallo NG!
>>>
>>> My homepage includes midi-files  for background music. But the are
>>> not played.
>>
>> They don't play for me either.   mplayer trys to play them but just
>> get bails.  This  could be my problem, since I  run Gentoo and this
>> distro   allows   you   to   compile   ALL   packages   with   user
>> settings/options.
>>
>> 1. Does the sound play when you try it with Firefox?
>>
>> 2. What plugin / application have you assigned to midi / mid files?
>>
>> 3. Do any of the midi / mid files at this link play (audio) for you?
>>
>> http://www.piano-midi.de/midi_files.htm
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
> Hi, thanks for response.

> I possibly was  a little short with my question.   I am using Ubuntu
> 7.10, Opera  9.27. Starting Opera  and loading a webpage  with *.mid
> files  it asks  for importing  plug-ins. Did  that as  requested, no
> problems. Next time the page opens  but still no midi. Btw kmid also
> does not play midi's, just opens and does nothing.
>
> To 1. FF does not play midi's
> To 2. Don't know, where to look for that?
> To 3. No.

If I download this link i.e.:  

wget http://www.piano-midi.de/midis/haydn/hay_40_1.mid 

I  can play  the midi  file  with 'aplaymidi'  -- had  to install  the
timidity++ package.  I setup Opera  to assign audio/midi file  type to
'Open with  Other Application'; set  the application to  aplaymidi and
when I  click on http://www.piano-midi.de/midis/haydn/hay_40_1.mid the
sound plays.

I would be interested to know if your mplayer version can play the the
above link i.e.:

   mplayer http://www.piano-midi.de/midis/haydn/hay_40_1.mid

I asked the guy who coded mplayerplug-in, gecko-mediaplayer and
gnome-mplayer  and he said:

Kevin DeKorte wrote:

| mplayer will play midi files assuming you have the following

| 1. libtimidity
| 2. xmms-timidity
| 3. compile mplayer with xmms-plugin support

Good luck.

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"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:39:02 -0400, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:
>
>>    mplayer http://www.piano-midi.de/midis/haydn/hay_40_1.mid
>
> I  have opera set  to use  the mozplugger  plugin.  Clicking  on the
> above  link plays  the piano  tune.  Checking  with htop  shows that
> mozplugger-helper        is        calling       timidity        -Od
> http://www.piano-midi.de/midis/haydn/hay_40_1.mid

Does mozplugger play 'music' when you go to the initial posters home
page?

    http://www.mydarc.de/dj1wm/index1.html

It doesn't for me -- but I don't read German either.

> Exiting opera  doesn't stop it, the only  way to stop it  is to kill
> timidity.

That's feature  -- who wants to keep  a browser up, just  to listen to
'music' ;-)

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