MIDI player
Timidity is an opensource MIDI and karaoke player.
Using a graphical user interface (GUI)
You can start timidity in several graphical variations. You can create a Gnome launcher with your favorite
- Typing
timidity -ia
gives a xaw interface with several powerful options, e.g. switching reverb on and off.
It can play standard karaoke files (see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/kar ), where you can read the lyrics and heard the music at the same time. And the sound is good. Because of all this, it is the recommended interface.
- Installing the package [timidity-interfaces-extra] will however give you several more very usable interfaces: The GTK interface is started by typing
timidity -ig
This allows the opening of files into a playlist, navigating and starting/stopping any of these, also changing the speed and the pitch while playing.
It can directly play karaoke play, but doesn't displays the lyrics.
- Typing
timidity -ik
gives the simpler [TCL/TK] interface.
It cannot play karaoke files. It sounds good.
Mozilla
Plugger is a multimedia plugin for Linux Mozilla that handles MIDI and other multimedia files . It uses Timidity to play MIDI files.
You can use too UMP.
See also: