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I'm trying to play a .mid file, so a MIDI song, with VLC, but it says it's not configured, but it is. I can open VLC → tools → Input/codecs → FluidSynth (in advanced mode). What am I missing? With other music players like Elisa it just doesn't sound.
Last edited by moshpirit (2024-05-22 14:42:56)
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fluidsynth needs a sound font, is one installed? Not entirely 100% on whether VLC just uses libfluidsynth (so you'd have to pass a sound font in those settings somewhere?) or whether it exepects the running fluidsynth daemon, but I could double check that when I'm home.
Can you use fluidsynths standalone mode and have you generally read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/FluidSynth
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Thanks for the reply! I've just seen that installing freepats-general-midi requires more than 300 MiB which is more than what I'm willing to compromise for listening MIDI files, so I don't think I'll continue with it.
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soundfont-fluid is "only" 150MB, but yes you need something to represent the actual instruments/notes used by the midi files.
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