[Gllug] play midi files on Centos 4

[Pooly]

Hi,

2006/6/18, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>:
> I have a midi file that I want to play.
>
> I used to use playmidi but since an OS upgrade that is no longer available.
> aplaymidi seems to be the thing to use, if I run it it asks me for the port
> to use, I have tried all that are available (see below) without success.
>
> I tried kmid, that gives me a nice gui that claims to be playing the file, but
> I hear nothing (sound does work).
>
> I am running Centos 4 (aka redhat enterprise 4). I know that my sound system works.
>
> Can anyone please help ?

Do you have a midi port on you soundcard ?
Mine does not work, so I use timidity to act as a midi server
(timidity -Oa -s something like this : server mode, alsa output,
launch as root), then I can run rosegarden4 on top of it.


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