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I am trying to play a *.mid file. kdemultimedia3-midi does nothing. I installed pmidi, and got the following error message:
What am I doing wrong? Please do not be afraid of talking down to me about what "midi" is!
actually what it isn't is more apropriate here, it isn't music. it's a lot of mathmatical notations of what the music is suposed to sound like played over various types of keyboards... it makes the files infinately smaller than they would otherwise be and is likely that reason that they are also used for mobile phone ringtones.. That said, it seems you haven't configured your sound card correctly and /or installed a soft(ware) midi player ( timidity seems to work usually ) That is , you need a software program that acts as if it is connected to a keyboard to play the songs.. Since timidity ususally has a series of sounds of instraments installed w/ it you stand a pretty good chance of getting a noise that resembles what the origional midi author thought was a good sound. You will find tho, that the music sound has more in common w/ earlly console games than any actually music.. still, no reason not to give your ringtones a trial before you Dl and pay for them... <VBG> -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit