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[TexasTak]

Having been online with various internet gadgets for 10 years or so, I have accumulated quite a collection of midis, also some mods and wavs.

The majority of wavs play fine on the XO.  GREAT DISPLAYS with the music, by the way. ;-)

I go to my site where I keep my midis (URLs) and click on one to play, and it will say something like it is downloading.  It will say it is finished.  But I don't know how to listen to it then.  With the wavs, all I have to do is click on the URL of the wav, and wait a few seconds, and it plays, nothing else needed. 

I have clicked on about every reasonable looking place to try the midi, but it just sits there.  Can you listen to it?  Or do I have to make some kind of addition somewhere in order to do this?

[RobotPrimate]

I haven't tried this, but copy the midi file to the clipboard, then open Etoys, make a new project, and drag and drop from the clipboard to Etoys. I say this, because I think Etoys has a midi player.
If this doesn't work, having basic midi playing capabilities would be a good feature to be requested at http://dev.laptop.org , in my opinion.

[goliath]

Perhaps check out timidity++. I have the Asus triple e which doesn't play midi by default. I also use midi lots with windows. I managed to get timidity++ loaded, and did have the player interface working but now it's disappeared, completely new Linux user that I am I can't figure it out again. Yet.  I can, however, play midi files now either embedded in web pages /w firefox, and by clicking on midi files. Just can't turn off without the player interface so they keep playing until the file is done.

Check it out: http://timidity.sourceforge.net/#info

Am still waiting for my XO, but hoping to get some experience with the triple e to help me /w the XO and Linux. Also been reading about Wine which enables windows apps to run on Linux, and am also considering that for midi applications.

[TexasTak]

Goliath, I hope you do get your XO soon!  I lucked out on that count.  I was a first day donor, and I didn't get my XO the first day they were being received, but about the 3rd day.

E-Toys?  I need to look at that.  I was too dense to take the hint that it was giving me.  It put the E-Toys logo on the "circle," and also had a notation about it in the Journal.  Everything may already be there that we need to play midis. 

Thanks much!