Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:36:17 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: playmidi? Message-ID: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com>
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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
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