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Playing sound samples in Wikipedia
- 02-02-2021
- bob prohaska
February 2, 2021, 12:07 am

When trying to play the sample sounds at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_ (musical_note)#Middle_C
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_ (musical_note)#Middle_C
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

Re: Playing sound samples in Wikipedia

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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