midi will not play from within frescobaldi

[The Doctor (Michael)]

Hullo. I am using Frescobaldi 2.0.8 on Lubuntu 12.10 beta -  I think (the most current version) and Timidity++ and when I compile a score, the midi player from within Fresco will not play. However, when I locate the file, I can get it to play through Timidity++. How can I get it play through Frescobaldi? Thanks.

[Federico Bruni]

I stopped using timidity because it often "crashed" for some reason,
i.e. even if it's in the startup services I found out that it was not
running.
So the first thing I would do is checking if it the timidity daemon is
running. If it's running you should see something like this:

$ ps ax | grep timidity
2291 ? S 0:26 /usr/bin/timidity -Os -iAD
22813 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep timidity

My guess is that you can see only the "grep timidity" line.
In this case start timidity:

sudo service start timidity

Reload the Midi ports in Fresco and select timidity.

Or switch to qsynth and forget timidity :)

HTH
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Federico

[Michael Dykes]

Hi, 

When I open a terminal and type

sudo service start timidity

I get the following:

start: unrecognized service

?huh?

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[Federico Bruni]

Il 23/09/2012 21:50, Michael Dykes ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> When I open a terminal and type
>
> sudo service start timidity
>
> I get the following:
>
> start: unrecognized service
>
> ?huh?

sorry, that's the correct order:

service timidity start

[Michael Dykes]

When I enter that code into a terminal and open Fresco, and attempt to reload the midi ports, I still see only Midi Through Port-0

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[Federico Bruni]

Il 23/09/2012 22:08, Michael Dykes ha scritto:
> When I enter that code into a terminal and open Fresco, and attempt to
> reload the midi ports, I still see only Midi Through Port-0

This should mean that timidity is not running.
Please paste the output of these commands:

ps ax | grep timidity

sudo service timidity start

[Michael Dykes]

1.

14234 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto timidity

2.

* Starting timidity                                                                                 *  (to get timidity as an ALSA Sequencer enable this by editing the file /etc/default/timidity)                                                                                                 [ OK ] 

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[Federico Bruni]

Il 23/09/2012 22:29, Michael Dykes ha scritto:
> 1.
>
> 14234 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto timidity
>

ok, so it's not running

> 2.
>
> * Starting timidity
> * (to get timidity as an ALSA Sequencer
> enable this by editing the file /etc/default/timidity)

sudo gedit /etc/default/timidity

On Debian I have:
# uncomment to override enabling triggered by availability of
timidity-deamon
# TIM_ALSASEQ=false

I don't know about Ubuntu configuration, but I think you need to change
it this way:

TIM_ALSASEQ=true

And then reload the service.

[Michael Dykes]

Thanks a lot Federico, that works just fine. Thanks again!!!

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[manu...@gmail.com]

Try installing libportmidi0 manually :

sudo apt-get install libportmidi0