From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 14 14:40:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA15079 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:40:20 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA15073; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:40:16 -0800 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA24806; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:40:04 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id RAA16527; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:40:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:40:03 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: playmidi? In-Reply-To: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Well, it had to happen - at the house where I'm staying, a new Walnut Creek > employee has come to live for a few weeks while he finds a place to live. > What sort of machine does he have? A linux box! Does he want to convert > to FreeBSD? No. Well, that's fine too since it gives me a good chance > to see how the other half lives, but last night we decided to have dueling > multimedia wars, and I lost! :-( > > First he played a wav file, so I played a wav file. No big deal. > Then he plays an Amiga mod file, and I do too (the `tracker' program > is pretty cool - thanks Andrew! :). Then he plays a MIDI file and > I'm lost. Ummm. Geeze, how do I play midi files? My SB16 here at > work supports the snd7 device (midi), though unfortunately the AWE32 > box at home does not (can't even see a midi device at 0x300 - strange!). > Even with a working snd7, however, I would still not be able to play > midi files since there's no player to speak of! :-( Just cat'ing the > midi file to the /dev/midi device doesn't work - sounds interesting, > but doesn't work! :-) > > Anyone have any ideas? Midi through his Linux system (gravis Ultrasound) > actually sounds rather nice! :-) Jordan, my sounds equipped machine's still running 1.1.5.1, but if I want to play a midi file, I use a program that's part of adagio, called mp. I have no idea if this is still available under 2.0, under 1.1.5.1 it was a port. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------