Audacious: How to play midi files?

Question

How do I play midi files under Audacious? I am currently running Xenial Xerus LTS with:

andrew@athens:~$ audacious --version
Audacious 3.6.2 (Ubuntu package)

I have been using this Wiki midi file to test:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/MIDI_sample.mid

**Note:** This Ask Ubuntu question and accepted answer do not deal with Audacious at all: http://askubuntu.com/q/771353/57576 — andrew.46, Jul 21 '16 at 01:01

andrew.46 · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-23T22:49:21.803

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Audacious under Xenial Xerus comes equipped with the AMIDI-Plug (Midi Player) plugin but what is missing by default is:

An appropriate Sound Font
The appropriate setup from within Audacious to use this Sound Font

To get a decent Sound Font run the following command from a Terminal window:

sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs

This places a sound font in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 and this can be sourced from within the Audacious preferences as this screenshot shows:

And now the test midi file from Wikipedia will play back in all the glory of that uniquely midi sound:

References:

Audacious: How-to: MIDI playback

edited Mar 23 '21 at 22:49

answered Jul 21 '16 at 00:07

andrew.46

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Worked great for me. – Santropedro Dec 08 '19 at 01:07
@Santropedro Good to that this old answer is still useful :) – andrew.46 Dec 08 '19 at 01:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 17 '18 at 12:02

Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Lubuntu on my laptop) I ran

sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs

but then I had to manually insert the sound font file into Audacious using the following menus:

services > plugins > Input > AMIDI-plug(MIDI player)

then clicked settings, then + to add the sound font. Once the sound font file location was added to AMIDI-Plugin everything worked great.

Sound font file ---> /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

Audacious: How to play midi files?

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