I was having the same problem until I created $HOME/.netscape/plugins
and copied ump.so into that directory. One of those things that you
shouldn't have to do, but that got it working for me.

As always, YMMV.

Wayne


Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi
> plugin
> for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the
> library
> and timidity. I can go to the test page
> (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on
> the
> "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
> Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
> Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
> 
> The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
> of my ~/.mime.types:
> 
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/midi  \
> desc="UMP plugin version 1.10"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/x-midi  \
> desc="audio/x-midi"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> 
> I did check on another web site
> (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
> there.

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