This is how to use Timidity to convert a MIDI file into an Ogg Vorbis audio file. This is very useful for playing them with Banshee or Audacious.
[homer@localhost Documents]$ timidity sound009.mid -Ov -o blood009.ogg Playing sound009.mid MIDI file: sound009.mid Format: 1 Tracks: 10 Divisions: 480 Sequence: Seq-1 Track name: Track-5 Track name: Track-7 Track name: Track-1 Track name: Track-2 Track name: Track-3 Track name: Track-4 Track name: Track-6 Track name: Track-8 Track name: Track-9 Tone bank 4 is undefined Tone bank 56 is undefined Playing time: ~231 seconds Notes cut: 0 Notes lost totally: 0 |
This is how to convert to a FLAC file, this is another good option for converting a MIDI file to listen with a music player.
[homer@localhost Documents]$ timidity sound009.mid -OF -o blood009.flac Playing sound009.mid MIDI file: sound009.mid Format: 1 Tracks: 10 Divisions: 480 Sequence: Seq-1 Track name: Track-5 Track name: Track-7 Track name: Track-1 Track name: Track-2 Track name: Track-3 Track name: Track-4 Track name: Track-6 Track name: Track-8 Track name: Track-9 Tone bank 4 is undefined Tone bank 56 is undefined Playing time: ~231 seconds Notes cut: 0 Notes lost totally: 0 Wrote 14136559/40409644 bytes(34.9831% compressed) |
Timidity uses sound fonts to play midi files. They can be replaced with better ones to improve the playback of midi files. But I really like this ability. Converting midi files into Ogg and FLAC is very useful.