Midi files and Firefox

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Sun Feb 27 06:06:08 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:

>A recent thread on playing midi files with TiMidity got me to wondering
>about a problem I have.
>
>One web site that I love has music that plays with the pages.  They play
>when I use Windows, but on Linux they don't.  I wondered why since I
>have most of the music formats playable with XMMS and others.
>
>When I checked this site i found all the music files are midi (.mid)
>files.
>
>Now my quest is to find out how to get firefox on Fedora to play
>the .mid files that web pages may use.
>
>Does anyone know how to get firefox to play the .mid files?
>
>I also seem to need a little help with installing/configuring TiMidity
>to play regular .mid files locally.
>I have installed timidity after compiling but when I try to open a .mid
>file it fails because the timidity.cfg file is not found. Documentation
>is too sparse to let me know the minimum content of this file necessary
>to play .mid files.
>
>Can someone share their timidity.cfg file so I can play .mid files?
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>
I believe there is a Firefox extension named Foxytunes.  It might help.




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