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[Rhed Sequoia]

There are no options in the MIDI Ports drop downs and Refresh MIDI ports doesn't seem to do anything.

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Linux Frescobaldi 3.0 doesn't play midi

Rhed Sequoia <rhe...@gmail.com>: Mar 28 10:18AM -0400 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rhed Sequoia <rhe...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM Subject: Linux Frescobaldi 3.0 doesn't play midi To: <fresc...@groups.google.com>     Hi,   I have Linux Mint Cinnamon Xia (Ubuntu) and I just installed Frescobaldi 3.0. Linux Mint hasn't upgraded to the newer versions. I launched Frescobaldi and everything seems to work fine except Frescobaldi silently plays the generated midi file at 100% volume. I get nothing. I have Timidty installed and it works fine. I can open the same midi file in Timidity and listen to it. I can also upload the file to Midiano and listen to it. (Much better midi voices) These workarounds are fine, but inconvenient. The built-in midi player and convenience of instantly hearing the piece I'm working on is why I use Frescobaldi. Frescobaldi should work out-of-the-box in Linux just like it does in MS Winblows. I don't understand why this is so difficult. I asked about this problem back in 2022 when I was using popOS! It's now 2025 and the same problem persists.   I also tried installing Flatpak Frescobaldi 3.3 and it didn't work either. I removed it since it was marked as unverified.   I tried to Wine Frescobaldi 3.2. I guess it's alcohol intolerant. I'm sure I could Virtualbox Frescobaldi and have it work just fine, I just haven't tried that yet because I'd have to install and set up Virtualbox then install Winblows and set it up in a virtual environment. My objective is to get away from Winblows, not have to depend on it for a single application. All of the other applications I used on Winblows which have Linux counterparts work beautifully fine out-of-the-box. I'm thrilled. Frescobaldi is the exception.   I've tried to change the midi port in Frescobaldi, but there is only one midi port listed. I'm at a loss how to get this mostly unuseful Linux software to work. I would appreciate any knowledgeable suggestions or guidance. Thank you.

Knute Snortum <ksno...@gmail.com>: Mar 28 07:33AM -0700 What do you have in Edit -> Preferences -> MIDI Settings -> MIDI ports?   -- Knute Snortum

Federico Bruni <fe...@inventati.org>: Mar 28 04:50PM +0100 Il giorno ven 28 mar 2025 alle 10:18:54 -04:00:00, Rhed Sequoia > I also tried installing Flatpak Frescobaldi 3.3 and it didn't work > either. I removed it since it was marked as unverified.   The verification doesn't mean much. You can safely install it. I'm (@fedelibre) the maintainer of Frescobaldi flatpak package and I'm also one of the owners of Frescobaldi organization on GitHub. This should be enough to have the verification, but not for Flathub rules.   I've been asking Wilbert, the original author of Frescobaldi, to copy a small text file in frescobaldi.org to get it verified on Flathub, but he never did it. I'll try again after 4.0.0 release, then give up. If we (active Frescobaldi contributors) can't control frescobaldi.org we may have to change the application ID to something else e.g. io.github.frescobaldi to get the Flathub verification and a website we can keep up-to-date.   Please don't use a virtualized Windows to use Frescobaldi! Linux is much better and I'm sure there's a solution for your problem. Reply to Knute's question and we'll help you.

Rhed Sequoia <rhe...@gmail.com>: Mar 28 02:32PM -0400 For the nonce, I'm just using Timidity to play the midi. When Frescobaldi updates the midi file, Timidity automatically plays the updated midi file so I don't have to reload it manually.   What problems are you having with keeping your web site updated? I was a senior-level web accessibility expert for over 15 years and worked on major web applications. Perhaps I can help.

Jean Abou Samra <je...@abou-samra.fr>: Mar 28 07:36PM +0100 > Le 28 mars 2025 à 19:33, Rhed Sequoia <rhe...@gmail.com> a écrit :   > What problems are you having with keeping your web site updated? I was a senior-level web accessibility expert for over 15 years and worked on major web applications. Perhaps I can help.     Thanks, but the problem is not a lack of knowledge in Web development. It's just that the creator and former main developer of the project has left and we don't have access to the server.

Knute Snortum <ksno...@gmail.com>: Mar 28 11:42AM -0700 > For the nonce, I'm just using Timidity to play the midi. When Frescobaldi > updates the midi file, Timidity automatically plays the updated midi file > so I don't have to reload it manually.   Okay, but what do you have in Edit -> Preferences -> MIDI Settings -> MIDI Ports in Frescobaldi?   -- Knute Snortum

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[Federico Bruni]

It's that simple.

1. Run Timidity in server mode:

$ timidity -iA
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3


2. Open Frescobaldi
You should see the "TiMidity port 0" set for Player output. See
attached screenshot.

If you use Frescobaldi frequently, you may avoid point 1 and enable
timidity service at startup, if your distribution provides it (for
example, in Fedora the timidity++ package doesn't have any .service
file).
Alternatively, you can create it. There's an example in the wiki for
fluidsynth:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/wiki/MIDI-playback-on-Linux#systemd-fluidsynth-service

It can be easily adapted for timidity.

Before the next release I want to improve the user manual section about
MIDI:
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1537


Il giorno dom 30 mar 2025 alle 08:53:33 -04:00:00, Rhed Sequoia
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> ports doesn't seem to do anything.
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