>>>>> "David" == David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
>> "aplaymidi -p 14:0 score.midi" doesn't crash but hangs and doesn't play
>> anything.
David> It "hung" here for the exact length of the MIDI file (about 4 seconds
David> for the output from your attached .ly file, 46 seconds for
tenor.midi),
David> and I heard nothing. Then I got the prompt.
Yes, you're correct. The MIDI file I was originally using was a couple
of minutes long. When I do i t on test.midi, it hangs for only a few
notes time.
David> However, I then set up a MIDI listener—on one xterm, I typed:
David> $ timidity -iA
David> Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
David> ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 33868, period size 3760 bytes
David> TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
David> Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3
David> and on another, observing the above, I typed:
David> $ aplaymidi -p 128:0 /tmp/tenor.midi
David> and heard part of "Sumer is icumen in" played very slowly.
Yes, "aplaymidi -l" lists the "midi through" port, so I'm sure if I'd
done what you did, it would have worked for me, too.
Thanks for looking at the problem.
>> This worked fine for years. It seems to be a problem not only with
>> current MIDI files but with (all?) the others on my website that were
>> generated years or decades ago.
David> Peter Chubb appears to be running timidity 2.14.0-8.3 from Debian
David> testing/trixie, three versions newer than my June 2018 version.
David> I've had no problems with 2.14.0-8, but that said, I don't run
David> it as a client or server for other processes. I always just type:
David> timidity [options] <MIDI-filename> (or a script does).
That's all I was doing either. But my version is only one behind
Peter's. I suppose linux mint should be nudged to update.
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