Play MIDI files on Ubuntu?

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rainbowcrash64

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I've been looking EVERYWHERE for some program that can plaz MIDI files on Ubuntu, but all I get is Timidity, or non-GUI based terminal programs. Is there anything like how Windows has Windows Media player? (and I tried Timidity, but I don't think Ubuntu 14.04 supports OSS)
 
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Do you know what a MIDI file is? It cannot be just 'played back'. midi file needs to be hooked into a sound synthesizer, like fluidsynth, to play anything back. Any gstreamer player is capable of midi playback with the 'gstreamer-plugins-bad' package (provides fluidsynth) requires you to setup a soundfont file though. Windows media player can play back MIDI because it has a default (crap) global synthesizer that practically no one uses (because its crap).

maybe you just want to import your MIDI into a DAW like LMMS or Ardour.

https://lmms.io/
http://ardour.org/
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Do you know what a MIDI file is? It cannot be just 'played back'. midi file needs to be hooked into a sound synthesizer, like fluidsynth, to play anything back. Any gstreamer player is capable of midi playback with the 'gstreamer-plugins-bad' package (provides fluidsynth) requires you to setup a soundfont file though. Windows media player can play back MIDI because it has a default (crap) global synthesizer that practically no one uses (because its crap).

maybe you just want to import your MIDI into a DAW like LMMS or Ardour.

https://lmms.io/
http://ardour.org/
 
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