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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,
> 
> > >    You will find a link to timidity on the same site as above, but 
> > > timidity 
> > > will remain silent unless you also have the patches properly configured.
> > 
> > 
> > This looks like a GUI program since is it about 10M if I recall 
> > correctly. 
> 
>    No.  Timidity is CLI.  There are some graphic front-ends for Timidity in 
> X, but you don't need those to play/hear MIDIs. But you will need the 
> patches.

The one availabe for Debian was 10M. 
What is a patch?

I downloaded a bunch of deb files and used mc-menu to conver tto tgz and 
in thero to install.  Only playmidi splay and bplay actually had install 
scripts, so I untarred the others and am trying them out from a temporary 
directory.

cdcd needs a bunch of libraries that I don't have
dcd does not, but it tells me unable to open /dev/cdrom.
I checked, I have it.
Same for workbone - no such device

I installed devs.tgz and it added /dev/sequencer needed by playmidi but 
that still wants me to set playback device.  I typed playmidi -f filename.
For -f you need sb patches.

What are patches and where do I get them?

splay - buffer size of file device is wrong
bplay - inappropriate ioctl for device
abcmidi - converts between abc and midi format - what is abc?


I played a cd by pushing the play button.  The card sounds okay,
better than with cat.

Do I need to mount the cd-rom drive somehow for playmidi?
What is an ioctl?

There are doc files - might try reading those next.



  
> Regards,
>          Ron
> 
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