Playing sound samples in Wikipedia

When trying to play the sample sounds at

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the effort fails with

Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "MIDI" (MIDI Audio)

Is it possible to fix this? I've never tinkered with sound on the Pi apart from playing YouTube videos and haven't a clue where to start.

This is on a Pi 4 running Linux raspberrypi 5.4.83-v7l+ #1379 SMP Mon Dec 14 13:11:54 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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bob prohaska
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Dana Tue, 2 Feb 2021 00:07:30 -0000 (UTC), bob prohaska napis'o:

Midi is not sound. It is just a instruction to use instrument x with note y. Each midi player sounds different.

Download midi file and get some kind of midi player. You will have to find something called "soundfont". This is a database with sampled instruments. Or connect it with sythesizer to use it as midi player.

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Nikolaj Lazic

Op 02-02-2021 om 03:42 schreef Nikolaj Lazic:

Yes, but VLC can do this. Explained on its wiki:

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Which was the first google hit for "vlc midi" ...

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A. Dumas

Seemingly no, the key was "fluidsynth", apt did the rest.

Thanks to all!

bob prohaska

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