Bug 460794

Summary: Can't play midi file in Linux.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: wayneh <wayneh>
Component: kdemultimediaAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.2CC: ltroan, pknirsch
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OS: Linux   
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Description wayneh 2008-09-01 06:51:05 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)

When I play a midi file, there is no sound.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RedHat RHEL 5.2 (64bit).
2.Use the native audio driver of Linux.
3.Connect speaker to Line out and enter X window.
4.Click Applications->select Sound & Video->select KMid and launch it.  
5.play a midi file with Kmid.
6.No sound output from speaker.
Actual Results:  
There is no sound play through speaker when I play the midi file.

Expected Results:  
There is sound play through speaker when I play the midi file.
Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2008-12-22 11:37:00 UTC 
Can you hear sounds with other audio applications?
Comment 2 wayneh 2009-01-05 09:49:41 UTC 
I can hear sound if I Play MP3 file with Realplay 11 gold.
Comment 3 Than Ngo 2009-01-14 16:01:48 UTC 
it's problem that your soundcard doesn't have hardware Midi synthesizer.
kmid requires either external Midi hardware or a PC sound card which has a hardware Midi synthesizer to get sound.

If you don't have such hardware and want to play Midi files you need timidity++ that can convert midi files to wav file. As i know this package is not available in RHEL, but you can get it in fedora.