Midi

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Module: fluidsynth
Type Codec
First VLC version 0.9.0
Last VLC version -
Operating system(s) all
Description SMF files playback through fluidsynth library
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Standard MIDI File (SMF) are instrumental musical files carrying sounds events that can be played back with a sound font.

Play .midi files in VLC

VLC media player can play MIDI since 0.9.0 on most platforms. On Windows, you need VLC media player 1.1.0.

SoundFonts file

To playback those .midi files, you need a SoundFont file: .sf2.

You can download them from either of these two places:

Configure SoundFont in VLC

You need to open VLC's preferences. The preferences window has two interfaces, Simple and All. Choose All, then go to Codecs, Audio codecs and then FluidSynth.


You select the .sf2 file with the preferences select button.