GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 159705
[MIDI] adding MIDI support
Last modified: 2007-03-19 13:48:01 UTC
It would be really great and cool if you could play .midi files with Gsteamer. Right now it's not very easy to play midi-files in gnome desktop.
current plans concerning MIDI are dealt with there : gstreamer/docs/pwg/advanced-midi.xml gstreamer/docs/random/uraeus/gstreamer_and_midi.txt
updating version..
A midi plug-in that could handle timidity patch sets and Creative SoundFonts would be cool. The distros would have to package EAWPatches or ShomPatches (ShomPats sound great btw). Linking this to a type of sample library interface may also be interesting for gstreamer-based music creation programs ("trackers").
I believe the original request was for simple MIDI playback, not full tracker-style support of MIDI (and if that's not the case, then I should file another bug). This library (though unmaintained): http://libtimidity.sourceforge.net/ looks like it supports all the basic playback functionality needed with an xmms plugin, and a xine-lib one (at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.xine.devel/15587/) This would allow for simple playback, and metadata reading for Midi files in Totem and Rhythmbox.
This seems to be worked on in bug #403992 and a timidity/wildmidi based playback plugin is already in gst-plugins-bad. I'll thus close this one as a duplicate of bug #403992 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 403992 ***