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    MIDI (.mid) files are very popular and supported by most media players, even my pocket PC can play them. I wish I could play them in MediaPortal as well.
     

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    What's the problem?
    just configure the midi extensions as a valid musi extension in Configuration and you're able to play it.
     

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    hwahrmann:

    I tried that already and I started the following thread because I was not able to play MIDI files in Media Portal:

    https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/midi-mid-files-playback-60920/

    I am getting the following error message on three different Windows XP computers:

    Unable to play : test.mid
    Audio codec: MIDI

    Chris in the thread above suggested that MIDI format is not supported by MediaPortal. I am glad to hear from the Developer that it is supported.

    So this is the problem. If MIDI is supported, could you help me to resolve it?
     

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    Well it is supported, but only on my side.
    There is a plugin file for BASS needed, which is not part of the release.
    i have it in my plugin directory, because i was testing the support of different file types a long time ago.
    somehow i didn't commit it, so it is not part of the distribution.

    i'll sort out a small problem that i found and make sure it'll get delivered with MP 1.1.0.
     

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    This would be just great, thank you very much!

    Could you also check on .kar files which are in fact midi files with kakaoke text inside. I installed the "Karaoke for DirectX" filter from here: SourceForge.net: Karaoke for DirectX: Files. I can see the video, but there is no audio.

    .kar files require same midi parser codec, I believe.

    .kar files are also very popular due to their small size. I have a huge library and I hope to find a way to play them in MP.

    The Karaoke for DirectX filter is an abandoned open source project, but the filter itself is amazing! It supports all major karaoke formats: .kar, .lrc and .cdg. The source code is there and I hope somebody could take it over and imbed into one of the future versions of MediaPortal.
     

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    kar files are supported as well.
    Changes are in the product and will become available with the 1.1.0 release.
    look here for more details
     

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