Timidity broken, crackling noise

[leunam12]

Timidity has stopped working, it used to work just fine but now if I do

timidity whatever.mid

all I get is a crackling noise for a couple of seconds. I can still use timidity to convert a midi file into a wav and it works as intended but cannot play directly.

rivasdom@RivasPC-2:~$ timidity aa.mid
Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes
Playing aa.mid
MIDI file: aa.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 3  Divisions: 192
Sequence: St. Anne
Text: By William Croft, 1708
Copyright: Public  domain
Text: Generated by NoteWorthy Composer
Track name: Unnamed-000
Track name: Unnamed-001
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 91 - this instrument will not be heard
Playing time: ~21 seconds
Notes cut: 37
Notes lost totally: 0

I'd appreciate any help that i can get with this.

[tgalati4]

Sometimes pulseaudio gets balled up. Try killing it. It should restart itself automatically. Then try playing a midi file:

pulseaudio -k

[leunam12]

still not working, but thanks for replying.

[tgalati4]

Does timidity have a debug mode? Open a terminal:

timidity --debug midifile.mid

[leunam12]

There is no debug option, but thanks anyway

[herbert-herwig-i]

Try
env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=80 timidity xxxx.mid
same with audacity cracklin, just change 80 to 50 or whatever is good enough.