how to play MIDI files on a windows system

cbodapati

hello
I have written recording and playback with wave files.
I want to know how to play the midi files on my system and some intro about the midi structure as well.can any body help me in this regard.
Iam working on windows 98
(pls suggest system requirements to play the midi file)

thanking you in anticipation


best regards
srikanth

Jonathan

: I have written recording and playback with wave files.
Congrats. :-)

: I want to know how to play the midi files on my system and some
: intro about the midi structure as well.can any body help me in this
: regard.
MIDI file format is not too bad from what (very, very little) I remember. Check out http://www.wotsit.org/ which has a very comprehensive listing of file format details, MIDI included. As for playing them, there are two ways I can think of:-

1) The easy way - use MCI. Look up mciSendString API, which is defined in winmm.h.

2) The harder way that I've never tried - use the midiOut APIs. They're the MIDI equivalent to the waveOut APIs, though of course MIDI and waveform data are quite different so their usage will also be quite different.

: Iam working on windows 98
Above mentioned APIs have been about since win95 and will work fine on 2000/XP.

: (pls suggest system requirements to play the midi file)
Sound card that supports MIDI output. They virtually all do these days.

Jonathan

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