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andrew.46
Asked: 2016-07-21 16:07:13 +0800 CST

Audacious: How to play midi files?

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How do I play midi files under Audacious? I am currently running Xenial Xerus LTS with:

andrew@athens:~$ audacious --version
Audacious 3.6.2 (Ubuntu package)

I have been using this Wiki midi file to test:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/MIDI_sample.mid

16.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Audacious under Xenial Xerus comes equipped with the AMIDI-Plug (Midi Player) plugin but what is missing by default is:

    1. An appropriate Sound Font
    2. The appropriate setup from within Audacious to use this Sound Font

    To get a decent Sound Font run the following command from a Terminal window:

    sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs

    This places a sound font in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 and this can be sourced from within the Audacious preferences as this screenshot shows:

    screenshot

    And now the test midi file from Wikipedia will play back in all the glory of that uniquely midi sound:

    enter image description here

    References:

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  2. Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Lubuntu on my laptop) I ran

    sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs

    but then I had to manually insert the sound font file into Audacious using the following menus:

    services > plugins > Input > AMIDI-plug(MIDI player)

    then clicked settings, then + to add the sound font. Once the sound font file location was added to AMIDI-Plugin everything worked great.

    Sound font file ---> /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

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