Midi files and Firefox

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-02-27 19:07, Jeff Vian whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

>On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 11:14 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
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>>On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:25:54 -0700
>>Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:46 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>>A recent thread on playing midi files with TiMidity got me to wondering
>>>>about a problem I have.
>>>>
>>>>One web site that I love has music that plays with the pages.  They play
>>>>when I use Windows, but on Linux they don't.  I wondered why since I
>>>>have most of the music formats playable with XMMS and others.
>>>>
>>>>When I checked this site i found all the music files are midi (.mid)
>>>>files.
>>>>
>>>>Now my quest is to find out how to get firefox on Fedora to play
>>>>the .mid files that web pages may use.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how to get firefox to play the .mid files?
>>>>
>>>>I also seem to need a little help with installing/configuring TiMidity
>>>>to play regular .mid files locally.
>>>>I have installed timidity after compiling but when I try to open a .mid
>>>>file it fails because the timidity.cfg file is not found. Documentation
>>>>is too sparse to let me know the minimum content of this file necessary
>>>>to play .mid files.
>>>>
>>>>Can someone share their timidity.cfg file so I can play .mid files?
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>>>Methinks that the cfg is a waste of time - it's probably generated by
>>>your install...
>>>
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>>The timidity.cfg file is at /etc/timidity.cfg
>>Do a man 5 timidity.cfg to see what it contains.
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>Actually it did not get put there (or anywhere else) by
>compiling/installing from the tar ball.
>
>I searched rpmfind.net and was able to locate an RPM (for Suse 9.1 but
>it works well for FC3) and install that.  It put the needed cfg file
>at /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg so now the files can be played
>locally.
>
>Now all I need is the means to make firefox play the midi files....
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OK, I suspect this is your problem:  FF as installed has a plugin to 
handle midi files, and it is enabled.  This means that if the plugin 
doesn't actually play the file, then you have to get FF to use a 
"helper" app.  To do this, click Edit->Preferences->Downloads.  Click on 
the button that says Plugins and UN-check the midi plugin.  You will 
then be able to add a helper app that points to timidity or whatever.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Man is by nature a political animal. (Aristotle, Politics)

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