While
trying out Linux mint I was surprised at it not being able to play midi files
out of the box. This can be easily remedied by installing the fluidsynth
soundfont plugin for vlc. I'll assume here that you have already the vlc player installed.
Step 1
Open your
software manager and search for vlc.
Step 2
Among the
results is one for vlc-plugin-fluidsynth. Select it and install it.
Step 3
Open your
terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T
Step 4
We want to associate the format to the player.
Type
gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Step 5
Press
Ctrl+H and search for midi.
Step 6
Replace
audio/midi=totem.desktop for audio/midi=vlc.desktop. Save your work and you are
done.
1 comments:
Thank you for your instructions.
After installing vlc-plugin-fluidsynth on Mint 18, xplayer appears to be working just fine; no need to edit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
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