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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:36:17 -0800
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com>
Message-Id: <199502140336.TAA00920@morton.cdrom.com>
To: ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: playmidi?
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
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Well, it had to happen - at the house where I'm staying, a new Walnut Creek
employee has come to live for a few weeks while he finds a place to live.
What sort of machine does he have?  A linux box!  Does he want to convert
to FreeBSD?  No.  Well, that's fine too since it gives me a good chance
to see how the other half lives, but last night we decided to have dueling
multimedia wars, and I lost! :-(

First he played a wav file, so I played a wav file.  No big deal.
Then he plays an Amiga mod file, and I do too (the `tracker' program
is pretty cool - thanks Andrew! :).  Then he plays a MIDI file and
I'm lost.  Ummm.  Geeze, how do I play midi files?  My SB16 here at
work supports the snd7 device (midi), though unfortunately the AWE32
box at home does not (can't even see a midi device at 0x300 - strange!).
Even with a working snd7, however, I would still not be able to play
midi files since there's no player to speak of! :-(  Just cat'ing the
midi file to the /dev/midi device doesn't work - sounds interesting,
but doesn't work! :-)

Anyone have any ideas?  Midi through his Linux system (gravis Ultrasound)
actually sounds rather nice! :-)

						Jordan