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Date:      Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:40:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: playmidi?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950214173822.16131C-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com>

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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.

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Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
chuckr@eng.umd.edu          | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
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