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That's really cool. I struggled to get a good midi engine working on linux and even what I have still messes around sometimes. Plus the instruments, while simil

That's really cool. I struggled to get a good midi engine working on linux and even what I have still messes around sometimes. Plus the instruments, while similar, aren't quite the same as those old school midi tunes from back in the day. I thought maybe my struggle was unique to Linux. Setting up sound drivers for recording, was fairly complicated even without adding midi into it. Though after the initial setup linux's audio production tools are fairly awesome. I never realized midi support had declined so much all over. It's nice to see projects that keep old technology alive, sometimes older, more simple things really do have appeal and it's always sad when things kind of vanish unnoticed.

feross 8y ago
> I never realized midi support had declined so much all over I actually have no idea why MIDI support was removed from browsers. I understand that <bgsound> was a bad idea – autoplaying audio and all – but why did MIDI file support have to go too? I was under the impression that web browsers took backwards compatibility pretty seriously and deleting a supported audio format and breaking most of the sound on the early web seems like something that wouldn't fly today. Does anyone know the story here?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Perhaps autoplaying audio wasn't obnoxious enough, so autoplaying video became top priority? /s
- deleted 8y ago
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