It is a nice basic command line program to play MIDI files and it's often used by larger applications for MIDI support.
Timidity++ is generally regarded as the best MIDI player on Linux mainly for simplicity reasons. Now that Linux is more popular, MIDI has all but disappeared due to there no-longer being a need for tiny audio files when everyone has the space for full blown 7.1 channel studio quality lossless mixes.īut still, now and then you may stumble across an old track you want to hear, or maybe a file from an old DOS game that you'd like to play, well this guide will help you do that, and do it well. Back when MIDI was big, no-one really used Linux on the Desktop. Playing MIDI files in Linux has always been a bit alien.
