Making TiMidity run

[steve]

or if TiMidity is used for playback

I've now set up Timidity as my default MIDI player

Here's an example of a piano solo rendered in high quality from a MIDI file http://www.sendspace.com/file/skzgn9

[digiday]

steve,

I know that was unintentional, but my anti-virus captured and quarantined a virus that came from that website that your link went to... the virus came through when I clicked "Play Now"... watch out for that site!

See the attached screen shots.

digiday

[digiday]

steve,

Try "TooFiles.com" for audio, or any kind of free file serving... it has lots of ads on it, as they all do, but it seems to be virus free.

digiday

[steve]

The button that you clicked on is one of their "adverts". If you used Firefox with "Adblock Plus" that bad link would have been blocked. The correct download link was the name of the file "variation-18.flac".

Here it is again on Toofiles http://www.toofiles.com/en/oip/document ... on-18.html

[digiday]

steve,

I know websites have allot of "click here", "download now", and "play now" buttons to fool people in to clicking on advertisements, and I saw the link to download the "variation-18.flac", but I chose "play now" since it was, deceivingly, seemingly, the most obvious button to play your audio file without downloading it... guess that button served its intention, to deceive.

But now your file on TooFiles.com is under the "Raw Files" section instead of under the "Music" section, the way that my files were when I placed them for listening... when one goes to the page that I posted my audio files on, under "Music", the audio, or song, just starts playing by itself without needing to "download" anything... needless to say, at this point, I'm a little wary of "downloading" any thing else from an unknown place... why isn't your file under the "Music" section for automatic playback?

Your file has a "download the document by clicking on it" phrase above the file on TooFiles.com under the "Raw Files" section... what is a ".flac" file?... may I recommend Audacity to convert your file in to a friendly MP3 file that can be uploaded to the "Music" section on TooFiles and it will play automatically... sorry, couldn't resist that one.

I do exclusively use Firefox, accept when emailing a webpage, but I haven't installed "Adblock Plus"... in fact on another forum one time, an administrator that was eves dropping on various thread conversations issued me an "infraction warning" because someone that was on the same thread mentioned "Adblock Plus" because there were so many ads on that forum that it was ridiculous... when I replied and said I'd check out Adblock Plus, I later was issue a "citation" on that forum... I had to go to "forum court" and go to "forum school" to get it taken off of my record so my "forum insurance" wouldn't go up.

I guess it's okay to mention Adblock Plus here since this forum isn't polluted with ads that turn every other word that one utters into an underlined ad link that-pops up an ad where ever one's cursor happens to come to rest... and I'm not sure if my thread is being monitored by the forum Gestapo here, but there are no ads on this forum... so I'll ask... does Adblock Plus work well?... I hadn't installed it because I thought it may erroneously block some content that doesn't need to be blocked on some websites.

I did notice on TooFiles.com, that there is a "Musinex" audio ad that automatically plays both when I'm on a TooFiles page and even after I've clicked away and closed that page... it scares me sometimes when the TooFiles page is completely gone, but the audio ad still starts to play by itself out of nowhere, really loud... sometimes I end up closing my browser and re-opening it to make sure the audio ad is gone and won't suddenly start playing again... and TooFiles has alot of pop-up ads that somehow subvert my pop-up blocker settings... will Adblock Plus stop those things on TooFiles as well without blocking normal content?
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And speaking of automatically playing audio, but in a nicer way, I wanted to ask you if you know of a way to attach a sound file to an email in such a way that it starts playing automatically when the email is opened... before I got going with our thread about making TiMidity run here, I was asking around about how to make that auto play, or play button on an email for an attached audio file, thing work.

I got all kinds of input and tried quite a few things that were supposed to make that work, but apparently email client software makers have almost completely stripped that feature of embedding an audio file into an email to make it play automatically because spammers were abusing it. Now apparently that feature is only available, that I can find out about, in MS Outlook.

I tried Thunderbird, which I use for email, and its "Options>Format>HTML" then "Insert>HTML" trick to try to make the audio play automatically or to present a play button within the email, and I even tried several different chunks of code that someone supplied me with and tried inserting them, but none of it worked on the receiving end when the email came through in Windows Live Mail 2011 nor Thunderbird recipient email client programs.

I know all the receiver has to do is to double-click on the attached audio file, but sometimes even that is too hard for my mom or some other less than computer savvy family members of mine because that can't find the attachment icon on the email.

Just today, I installed and tried the "Send-A-Message" application, but so far all I can figure is that it just attaches the audio file recordings that it can make to an email and those have to be double-clicked to play on the receiving end anyway... so far, I don't see any autoplay feature within its ability either.

If you know anything about that, let me know... I know you have a deep knowledge base on anything computer and especially that to do with audio.

Thanks,

digiday

[steve]

why isn't your file under the "Music" section for automatic playback?

Toofiles would not let me upload it into the music section because it is in FLAC format.
Flac files are the same sound quality as WAV files, but only half the size.

Lol, there's no Gestapo here, just forum Elves. Yes, Adblock Plus works really well. When you install it you need to "sign up" (select) a set of "rules" (filters). I just use the default USA list and that takes care of about 90% of adverts. You can switch off Adblock Plus for specific web-sites - which gives you an "opt in" choice of whether you want to help an ad-supported site. You can also add custom rules to avoid persistent unpleasant adverts that the default list misses.

Regarding the e-mail question - could we keep that in the "e-mail question" topic or this thread will get too confusing for other people that are reading it (and me )

[digiday]

Hi steve,

That's a good idea... I'll post that email audio question in the other section... I didn't even realize there was an email section.

I'll have to try Adblock Plus... I hate those audio ads on TooFiles.com that linger and "pop-up" even after the page is closed until the browser is restarted.

It's not so much the forum Gestapo that I'm afraid of... it's the SS that I'm more concerned with... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS

What application do FLAC files play in?

Also, I have a question about strange audio file formats that the "Send-A-Message" sound effects come in... I'll post that with the other email question since that relates to the audio email topic.

digiday

[digiday]

Hi steve,

I guess there is not an actual "email question" thread on this forum... I think I misunderstood... so I posted that question under "Audio Processing", and here is a link to that thread...http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 28&t=51654

ciao,

digiday

[steve]

FLAC files play in Audacity and all good media players, including VLC, WinAmp, RhythmBox, Foobar2000 and many more.
With the aid of plug-ins they will also play in Windows Media Player and iTunes.

[himynameisjonnycap]

Okay, so i Got TiMidity to work.
But...........
Now it's not working so i opened up the console window and i found this

soundfontsFluidR3 GM.sfArk: *** not a RIFF file
MIDI file: C:UsersJonMusicSongsexitstageupeven1.mid
Format: 1 Tracks: 3 Divisions: 192
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 3
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 4
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 33 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 36 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 40 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 42 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 43 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 45 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 46 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 47 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 48 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 49 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 51 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 52 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 53 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 57 - this instrument will not be heard
No pre-resampling cache hit
MIDI file: C:UsersJonMusicSongsexitstageupeven1.mid
Format: 1 Tracks: 3 Divisions: 192
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 3
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 4
No pre-resampling cache hit


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