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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Gary Kline wrote:

Gary, do you have a sound card?  What kind?  Using a GUS, I have to use 
"playmidi -g midifile" and using a soundblaster, "playmidi -f midifile".

> 
> 
>   Can anybody point me to whatever magic it takes to play a
>   MIDI file on FreeBSD?
> 
>   I finished building playmidi and it reports that I don't
>   have a playback device set.   So  far, I'm using /dev/audio
>   for my *.au with the NAS suite.  The auvoxware server is
>   running.   So what does playmidi want?
> 
>   Thought I'd ask before digging into the code...
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
>   gary
> 
> 
> 
> 

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