[Discuss] timidity

[dan moylan]

charles anderson wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:27:59PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:

>> running fc29 on acer aspire E1-6860.
>> timidiy installed and appears to run, but no audio is heard.
>> using option -Od (default) complains the /dev/dsp isn't
>> there.  any suggestions?

> /dev/dsp is a legacy sound driver device node for the
> obsolete OSS sound driver.  Newer software should be using
> either ALSA sound directly via /dev/snd/pcm* or via the
> PulseAudio sound server.  For timidity, try using -Os or
> just do not specify -O at all let it pick the default.
> Either works fine on my Fedora 29 system.

> Available output modes (-O, --output-mode option):
>  -OO          Libao mode
>  -Os          ALSA pcm device
>  -Od          dsp device
>  -Oj          JACK device
>  -Ow          RIFF WAVE file
>  -Or          Raw waveform data
>  -Ou          Sun audio file
>  -Oa          AIFF file
>  -Ov          Ogg Vorbis
>  -OF          FLAC
>  -OS          Ogg Speex
>  -Ol          List MIDI event
>  -Om          Write MIDI file
>  -OM          MOD -> MIDI file conversion

neither specifying -Os nor not specifying -O seems to
produce anything from the laptop audio.

moylan mus[1109] timidity -A100,100 -Os mid/b0080.mid
Playing mid/b0080.mid
MIDI file: mid/b0080.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 1  Divisions: 10080
Sequence: f1
Playing time: ~45 seconds
Notes cut: 0
Notes lost totally: 0

btw, sound comes out fine on youtube videos.

thanks,
ole dan

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