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2013-01-27
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AFAIK mid file is actually just an instruction for a midi sequencer how to play the instruments. So without sequencer there's nothing to play and players can do very little about it.
There's timidity for fremantle, which is supposedly a very good one (or so i've heard - i don't know much about this stuff), but I'm not aware of it being ported to harmattan. http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...13.2-39maemo1/
It seems to have quite many dependecies too so that package will probably not work on Harmattan as is. (might end up with some conflicting dependencies even if you hunt them down)
Last edited by ladoga; 2013-01-27 at 19:05.
There's timidity for fremantle, which is supposedly a very good one (or so i've heard - i don't know much about this stuff), but I'm not aware of it being ported to harmattan. http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...13.2-39maemo1/
It seems to have quite many dependecies too so that package will probably not work on Harmattan as is. (might end up with some conflicting dependencies even if you hunt them down)
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2013-01-28
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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=50301 is for fremantle but wildmidi is available on Rzr's repo so maybe installing it should be enough...
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2013-01-28
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I think VLC on the desktop can support MIDI if you install sound fonts and needed plugins (for example vlc-plugin-fluidsynth). Not sure if they are available for Harmattan though.
See http://wiki.videolan.org/Midi
Last edited by shmerl; 2013-01-28 at 06:13.
See http://wiki.videolan.org/Midi
Last edited by shmerl; 2013-01-28 at 06:13.
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2013-08-26
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Did you ever find a player? I found this solution, so I thought it might be nice to put my findings here for anyone else looking for it.
I read through the thread ref'd by thedead1440, and I found that the/a wildmidi package is in the harmattan dev repository (http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com harmattan/sdk/free Packages) and could be installed with "apt-get wildmidi". However, I have not found a freepats package, so without instrument patches wildmidi works -- silently.
So I located the freepats website: http://freepats.zenvoid.org/ and download and extracted it (http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.tar.bz2 or http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.zip). Then Copy or link it to /usr/share/midi/freepats/ which is the default patch directory in /etc/wildmidi/wildmidi.cfg.
Now wildmidi plays midi files and sounds pretty good.
Sorry if there are typos in any of these links, I retyped some of them . . .
I read through the thread ref'd by thedead1440, and I found that the/a wildmidi package is in the harmattan dev repository (http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com harmattan/sdk/free Packages) and could be installed with "apt-get wildmidi". However, I have not found a freepats package, so without instrument patches wildmidi works -- silently.
So I located the freepats website: http://freepats.zenvoid.org/ and download and extracted it (http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.tar.bz2 or http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.zip). Then Copy or link it to /usr/share/midi/freepats/ which is the default patch directory in /etc/wildmidi/wildmidi.cfg.
Now wildmidi plays midi files and sounds pretty good.
Sorry if there are typos in any of these links, I retyped some of them . . .
I was surprised to discover the N9's default music player doesn't support MID files. That's... curious. First phone I've owned that doesn't play them.
Is there a MIDI player for the N9? Even a quick and dirty, ugly one?
Thanks.