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    From TheChris@21:1/5 to J.B. Wood on Sun May 27 14:49:28 2018
    "J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote in news:mecbaf$g20$1 @speranza.aioe.org:

    Hello, all. Just wondering if anyone is using the subject Python script (http://mellowood.ca/xpmidi) that provides a GUI frontend to aplaymidi.
    I'm interested in knowing if anyone has modified the script to allow
    for a selection of some/all the MIDI files in a directory/playlist to be played one after the other without further user intervention (except to pause/end the current file playing). The downloaded script only
    provides for user selection of one file at a time for playing and this
    is inconvenient when you want to set up the continuous playing of many
    MIDI files to, say, a digital piano. Thanks for your time and comment.
    Sincerely,

    I am using it. After months of false starts, and absolute BS GM headaches,
    I am as pleased as can be with it..

    I have not done any of the things you mention, but, I seem to remember
    being able to play many songs in a row. I'm not near that machine now..

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  • From J.B. Wood@21:1/5 to TheChris on Tue May 29 06:46:11 2018
    On 05/27/2018 10:49 AM, TheChris wrote:
    "J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote in news:mecbaf$g20$1 @speranza.aioe.org:

    Hello, all. Just wondering if anyone is using the subject Python script
    (http://mellowood.ca/xpmidi) that provides a GUI frontend to aplaymidi.
    I'm interested in knowing if anyone has modified the script to allow
    for a selection of some/all the MIDI files in a directory/playlist to be
    played one after the other without further user intervention (except to
    pause/end the current file playing). The downloaded script only
    provides for user selection of one file at a time for playing and this
    is inconvenient when you want to set up the continuous playing of many
    MIDI files to, say, a digital piano. Thanks for your time and comment.
    Sincerely,
    t
    I am using it. After months of false starts, and absolute BS GM headaches,
    I am as pleased as can be with it..

    I have not done any of the things you mention, but, I seem to remember
    being able to play many songs in a row. I'm not near that machine now..

    Hello, and it's interesting to see one of my old posts is still out
    there and being read. Xpmidi, aside from being free to download, is
    convenient when using aplaymidi as the file player. But if you're using
    a windows machine, the functionality of vanBasco's freeware MIDI player (http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/) is hard to beat IMHO. It plays
    both .mid and .kar files (you can also pause, rewind, or start a
    playback other than at the beginning) and will also show metadata about
    the file being played (like Timidity++ for Linux). The vanBasco player
    allows for either internal play (using the computer's soundfonts) or
    connection to an external MIDI device (e.g. an M-Audio Midisport). If
    using the Windows platform internal audio to play the file, I would
    recommend using the Coolsoft virtual MIDI synthesizer (https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth) with the vanBasco
    player. Coolsoft allows you to select a previously stored soundfont. Sincerely,

    --
    J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com

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  • From TheChris@21:1/5 to J.B. Wood on Sat Jun 9 10:59:53 2018
    "J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote in news:pejb1i$sko$1 @gioia.aioe.org:

    Hello, and it's interesting to see one of my old posts is still out
    there and being read. Xpmidi, aside from being free to download, is convenient when using aplaymidi as the file player. But if you're using
    a windows machine, the functionality of vanBasco's freeware MIDI player (http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/) is hard to beat IMHO. It plays
    both .mid and .kar files (you can also pause, rewind, or start a
    playback other than at the beginning) and will also show metadata about
    the file being played (like Timidity++ for Linux). The vanBasco player allows for either internal play (using the computer's soundfonts) or connection to an external MIDI device (e.g. an M-Audio Midisport). If
    using the Windows platform internal audio to play the file, I would
    recommend using the Coolsoft virtual MIDI synthesizer (https://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth) with the vanBasco player. Coolsoft allows you to select a previously stored soundfont. Sincerely,

    I'm not using a Windows machine - most of the time. I start it from a
    script, and it does everything I was looking to do. The biggest hurdle was finding a hardware GM module. Can't believe they have fallen out of
    favor!

    God bless it for not requiring JACK.

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