Playing midi with audacious & AMidi plugin

I use the audacious player with AMidi plugin for playing midi files (and most audio files). There are two choices of backends – Timidity and Fluidsynth. I used to use the Timidity backend but found that lately the playback keeps skipping with my soundfonts, so I switched to the Fluidsynth backend and it’s much better [...]

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Python MIDI player updated

I’ve added a custom file browser and playlist function to my pyGTK MIDI player. The file browser is more lightweight and read files faster than the GTK FileChooser widget on the Nokia Internet tablet. The GUI is nothing fancy but it works. Download playmus version 0.2 I don’t think I’ll try to determine the MIDI [...]

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Timidity problems solved

I figured out what’s wrong with my timidity patches. That shrill noise in some of my midis came from a whistle in the drum patches that has been looped in the eawpats config files. Removing the loop setting solved the problem. I think I’ll stick with eawpats since freepats is missing quite a number of [...]

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Wrote a GUI midi player for my Nokia 770

Wrote my first PyGTK program for my Nokia 770. It’s a simple GUI midi player that uses the PyGame module. It works pretty well, although while testing the app PyGame sometimes couldn’t initialise and the only option is to reboot my device. But my final round testing seems to be quite stable. Python rocks on [...]

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How to get timidity and pygame co-existing happily on Ubuntu

Now that I’ve figured out how to play midi using pygame on my Nokia 770, I’ve been tearing my hair out the last couple of days trying to make pygame midi work on my Ubuntu box, so that I can do some development with it. I just couldn’t get any sound out my pygame script. [...]

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Midi on my Nokia 770

When I got my Nokia 770, I’ve always wanted to have midi playback. It’s funny that something that came out of Nokia couldn’t play midi files when all their phones could. It has been reported that timidity compiles for the Nokia 770, but the binary that’s floating around on the Web doesn’t work for me, [...]

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