Audacious: How to play midi files?

Solution 1:

Audacious under Xenial Xerus comes equipped with the AMIDI-Plug (Midi Player) plugin but what is missing by default is:

1. An appropriate Sound Font
2. The appropriate setup from within Audacious to use this Sound Font

To get a decent Sound Font run the following command from a Terminal window:

sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs

This places a sound font in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 and this can be sourced from within the Audacious preferences as this screenshot shows:

And now the test midi file from Wikipedia will play back in all the glory of that uniquely midi sound:

References:

• Audacious: How-to: MIDI playback