Req: Midi player

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I have some old *.mid music files. Is there a small W98/ME player for them?
I used ChimeTray Play, but for some reason it does not play midi files in windows ME.


TIA

Mike Sa
 
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...
I have some old *.mid music files. Is there a small W98/ME player for them?
I used ChimeTray Play, but for some reason it does not play midi files in windows ME.
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Try a multi-purpose program, something like XMplay from www.un4seen.com
or vanBasco's Karaoke Player. Or, if you have another music player
already that supports plug-ins, get the in_midi.dll for WinAmp. It
works for instance with the 1by1 player by Martin Pesch.

Dedicated midi players aren't made any more, since everybody thinks,
Microsoft's Media Player will do the job nicely.


Gabriele Neukam

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Gabriele said:
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...




Try a multi-purpose program, something like XMplay from www.un4seen.com
or vanBasco's Karaoke Player. Or, if you have another music player
already that supports plug-ins, get the in_midi.dll for WinAmp. It
works for instance with the 1by1 player by Martin Pesch.

Dedicated midi players aren't made any more, since everybody thinks,
Microsoft's Media Player will do the job nicely.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Thanks. I tried XMPlay, the default does not play *.mid files.

I looked on the site, the only reference I saw was to a mod/midi converter.

Where to find a XMPlay midi plugin?

I will also try to find the dll you mentioned for 1by1. But I like XMPlay with a
different skin.

TIA

Mike Sa
 
I have some old *.mid music files. Is there a small W98/ME player for
them?
I used ChimeTray Play, but for some reason it does not play midi files
in windows ME.<


(Thinking Music

"Thinking Music" is primarily a MIDI music file player which comes with
a number of my favorite classical pieces which have been sequenced into
MIDI format by devoted music lovers. Many of the tracks were arranged by
myself. You are welcome to distribute any part of this package, on the
condition that you do not charge any money for it, other than perhaps a
small fee to cover the cost of distribution media. The "Thinking Music"
MIDI player can be used to play any MIDI music file, and offers
continuous play as well as customized play lists.)


- Freeware -

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/
 
Bill said:
them?
I used ChimeTray Play, but for some reason it does not play midi files
in windows ME.<


(Thinking Music

"Thinking Music" is primarily a MIDI music file player which comes with
a number of my favorite classical pieces which have been sequenced into
MIDI format by devoted music lovers. Many of the tracks were arranged by
myself. You are welcome to distribute any part of this package, on the
condition that you do not charge any money for it, other than perhaps a
small fee to cover the cost of distribution media. The "Thinking Music"
MIDI player can be used to play any MIDI music file, and offers
continuous play as well as customized play lists.)


- Freeware -

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/
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Thanks, I will try it.

Mike Sa
 
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...
I looked on the site, the only reference I saw was to a mod/midi converter.

Where to find a XMPlay midi plugin?
Click to expand...

I think I found mine in an old WinAmp download (pre-5.x version)

Go here:
http://www.oldversion.com/

If that didn't work (though it should), there is

http://www.dachboden-wg.de/dlm/download2.php?id=185

which is in German. The download is initiated by just clicking on
"Downloaden"

Install this old WinAmp, copy the plugins into another directory,
uninstall the WinAmp, and use the in_midi.dll for XMplay. Works for me
(fortunately; meanwhile I've even taught XMplay to listen to webcasts.
Together with a small skin, it is great for hearing web radios)


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
I have some old *.mid music files. Is there a small W98/ME player for them?
I used ChimeTray Play, but for some reason it does not play midi files in windows ME.


TIA

Mike Sa
Click to expand...

One of my favorites, multi-purpose, no-install, under 300k.

WAV PLAYER

Play all your wav files ... The title is a little misleading, as it
can also, play MIDI, MPG and AVI files, if you have all the necessary
codecs and dll in your computer. Its called that way, just because it
started life as a simple WAV player.
--------------------------
Never liked programs that install files all over the hard disk;
To install this program, you only have to copy the files to a
suitable directory, and then run it from there. To uninstall, you
only have to delete the directory you created and the files within,
and... that's all !
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And, of course, you can always download the latest versions of
the software from my web page, at
http://www.webxpace.com/software/software.html
--------------------------
Keith Tonge
Kurt San


Advise if you cannot locate the site. Haven't been there since '03.
I have another from '94 you might be interested in.

Haven't used it but, XMPlay is about the same size and is a no-install.

BoB
 
Gabriele said:
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...




I think I found mine in an old WinAmp download (pre-5.x version)

Go here:
http://www.oldversion.com/

If that didn't work (though it should), there is

http://www.dachboden-wg.de/dlm/download2.php?id=185

which is in German. The download is initiated by just clicking on
"Downloaden"

Install this old WinAmp, copy the plugins into another directory,
uninstall the WinAmp, and use the in_midi.dll for XMplay. Works for me
(fortunately; meanwhile I've even taught XMplay to listen to webcasts.
Together with a small skin, it is great for hearing web radios)


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Thanks, I had a copy in an old Winamp folder, so copied into my Xmplay folder, it
still doesn't play midi, where does that dll go so that XMPlay will see it?

Mike Sa
 
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...
Thanks, I had a copy in an old Winamp folder, so copied into my Xmplay folder, it
still doesn't play midi, where does that dll go so that XMPlay will see it?
Click to expand...

Into Plugins. I thought this made sense. Works fine in my case.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Gabriele said:
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...




Into Plugins. I thought this made sense. Works fine in my case.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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There are no subfolders in XMPlay 33, so I created Plugins, put that dll and
others in it. Now it plays MP3 and WAV, but I get the error message "in_midi.dll
nullsoft... not supported by XMPlay as it has it's own output source". Mine came
from old Winamp folder, but apparently in_midi.dll files are not the same.

If your dll works for mid files, could you post it to a website that I can d/l it?
I searched before, hard to find.

Thanks,

Mike Sa
 
BoB said:
One of my favorites, multi-purpose, no-install, under 300k.

WAV PLAYER

Play all your wav files ... The title is a little misleading, as it
can also, play MIDI, MPG and AVI files, if you have all the necessary
codecs and dll in your computer. Its called that way, just because it
started life as a simple WAV player. snip
And, of course, you can always download the latest versions of
the software from my web page, at
http://www.webxpace.com/software/software.html
--------------------------
Keith Tonge
Kurt San


Advise if you cannot locate the site. Haven't been there since '03.
I have another from '94 you might be interested in.

Haven't used it but, XMPlay is about the same size and is a no-install.

BoB
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Thanks, BoB.

That link finally leads to that file at a J. Falco site, he has lots of goodies,
used to use his minicalc.

WAV Player- strange, it sees the folders where my music files are, but it doesn't
show the files. Usually, this means there's some file it needs to work and can't
find it on my computer.

His Pic Viewer same way, it opens image files but with an error message, don't see
that in any other image viewer.

His other programs run fine on my computer.

Mike Sa
 
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...
There are no subfolders in XMPlay 33, so I created Plugins, put that dll and
others in it. Now it plays MP3 and WAV, but I get the error message "in_midi.dll
nullsoft... not supported by XMPlay as it has it's own output source".
Click to expand...

My version was from the "dachboden-wg.de" site. I still have to change
the open with dialog from XMPlay-able to Standard MIDI, but then it
works.

The problem is, a) I can't tell which version this dll has (no
properties info available), only that it is 100 kb, and b) I don't own
any webspace. Do you know where to place it, without getting problems
regarding copyrights?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Gabriele said:
On that special day, ms, ([email protected]) said...




My version was from the "dachboden-wg.de" site. I still have to change
the open with dialog from XMPlay-able to Standard MIDI, but then it
works.

The problem is, a) I can't tell which version this dll has (no
properties info available), only that it is 100 kb, and b) I don't own
any webspace. Do you know where to place it, without getting problems
regarding copyrights?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Thanks anyway for the effort. I have ChimeTrayPlay and FMod that play everything
now, and to my ears they all sound the same. So I don't want to bother anymore
with XMPlay, there are lots of players for MP3 and WAV files.

Mike Sa
 
BoB said:
One of my favorites, multi-purpose, no-install, under 300k.

WAV PLAYER

Play all your wav files ... The title is a little misleading, as it
can also, play MIDI, MPG and AVI files, if you have all the necessary
codecs and dll in your computer. Its called that way, just because it
started life as a simple WAV player.


Advise if you cannot locate the site. Haven't been there since '03.
I have another from '94 you might be interested in.

Haven't used it but, XMPlay is about the same size and is a no-install.

BoB
Click to expand...

A correction- The first time I ran Wav Player, it didn't find the files. A few
hours later, I ran it and it worked fine. It does not seem to play MP3 files,
maybe when written it handled earlier MP files.

Mike Sa
 
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