This should be enough to let you play that Midi file that you want to listen on your computer with VLC. On this tab, you will be able to select the SoundFont file downloaded on the first step, just click on Browse, select the path to the file and save: Then, on the Advanced Preferences dialog, go to Input/Codecs > Audio codecs > FluidSynth. On the emergent dialog, go to the left bottom area and check the Show All radio button, this will allow you to see the preferences window with all the available settings of the program: Open VLC Player and go to Tools > Preferences: Now, you will need the following steps to configure properly VLC to play Midi files. We will place the file in the same VideoLAN\VLC directory as we don't need it in other places: Note that if using 7-Zip, you will need to apply decompression twiceonce for GZip and once for TAR.
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Windows users can use 7-Zip Mac users can use The Unarchiver, or macOS' built-in Archive Utility. To decompress it, use Polyphone (cross-platform software) or this online service: is a popular compression format for Linux. The following advice may help: Reduce the amount of RAM (memory) used by MuseScore by using a smaller SoundFont. sfArk is a compression format designed especially for compressing SoundFont files. If playback stutters, then your computer may not not able to handle the SoundFont being used. You can download it on the mentioned link, it will contain a zip with multiple files, of our interest is however the sound font file (GeneralUser GS v1.471.sf2), which is necessary to play midi files. If you are setting up a SoundFont for the first time, please use one of the recommended SoundFonts listed above. In this case, we will use the GeneralUser sound font which is very complete and lightweight.
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SoundFont is basically a file format for sample-based instrument sounds. In order to play Mid, Midi files in VLC player, you will need an extra file that is required for the synthesizer to work properly.
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In this article, we will explain you how to configure VideoLan VLC media player to play Midi files on your Windows system. For my surprise, my favorite open source media player VLC was unable to play Midi files by default, so i need to do some extra stuff to make it work. On the recent days, i was experimenting with guitar tabs software, which lead me to work with Midi files, weird XML files and other stuff.