How to use Audacious?

[neu5eeCh]

I was just trying play some .mid fles. Audacious popped up, but when I tried to play the files I got the following error message:

"You have not selected any sequencer ports for MIDI playback. You can do so in the MIDI plugin preferences."

This means absolutely nothing to me; and googling for information on this error message leads to more meaningless gibberish. I can't find anything under Audacious preferences that sounds remotely like "sequencer ports" or "MIDI plugin preferences". There's probably a simple solution to this. Can anyone help?

[Toz]

Parole plays midi files for me. If you want to use audacious, this might help: http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/200...ith-audacious/.

[neu5eeCh]

Thanks Toz, I saw that post, but it's from 2008. The information didn't jibe. I'll try Parole.

[MoreOrLess]

Here's a screenshot from the latest audacious. Maybe that will help.

[andrew.46]

Certainly works here as well. I compiled against libfluidsynth and selected this in the options plus put the path in for a sound font. Hopsfully this is clear in the screenshot I have attached...

[neu5eeCh]

Thanks MoreOrLess & andrew, your images were a help and I verified that my setup is ostensibly like yours, though using a different sound card & mixer, but I still get the same error. In the meantime, parole is working beautifully. Not sure whether to mark this thread solved or not, but as long as parole is working...

[gradinaruvasile]

Ummm.. Did you try ticking that checkbox? Or changing the output plugin (alsa or fluidsynth)?

[andrew.46]

Parole plays midi files for me.

At the risk of hijacking this thread can I ask what parole is built against to enable midi playback? My own does not play midi although I was immensely pleased to see that goom is supported .

[Toz]

@andrew.46, parole is a front-end to gstreamer. The gstreamer midi plugin is located in the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package. Looks like it uses wildmidi (http://wildmidi.sourceforge.net/)