Timidity can play MIDI files down a JACK device (timidity -Oj). Timidity can receive MIDI through an ALSA sequencer port and play it through the default sound device. However, Timidity is unable to do both of these at once, even though it could in some earlier Fedora version (I don't recall which). Tests (using any MIDI file, here written as test.mid): 1. $ timidity test.mid 2. $ jackd -d alsa & $ timidity -Oj test.mid $ kill % 3. $ timidity -iA & $ aplaymidi --port 128:0 test.mid $ kill % 4. $ jackd -d alsa & $ timidity -Oj -iA & $ aplaymidi --port 128:0 test.mid $ kill % $ kill % Tests 1-3 work correctly, test 4 says "Couldn't start JACK device (`j')" and doesn't play. This makes it difficult or impossible to use Timidity as a MIDI playback server while using Rosegarden. Version tested: timidity++-2.14.0-10.fc24.x86_64
HI, Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately I do not have time to look into this I'm afraid. You could try downloading and installing an older timidity: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=908 And see if you can find between which 2 versions things regressed. Although I must say that timidity++ has not seen a lot of change recently, so changes are that this is caused by some change outside of timidity++. Regards, Hans
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