Audacious: How to play midi files?

Question

How do I play midi files under Audacious? I am currently running Xenial Xerus LTS with:

andrew@athens:~$ audacious --version
Audacious 3.6.2 (Ubuntu package)

I have been using this Wiki midi file to test:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/MIDI_sample.mid

Answer 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

Answer 2

Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Lubuntu on my laptop) I ran

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

but then I had to manually insert the sound font file into Audacious using the following menus:

services > plugins > Input > AMIDI-plug(MIDI player)

then clicked settings, then + to add the sound font. Once the sound font file location was added to AMIDI-Plugin everything worked great.

Sound font file ---> /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2