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Can't browsers just play midi files? I know we could in the 90s and 00s.
by Asooka 8y ago
Can't browsers just play midi files? I know we could in the 90s and 00s.
- weinzierl 8y agoThey can't play MIDI files directly but modern browsers can communicate with MIDI controllers which is quite cool.
- classichasclass 8y agoNot directly. This was usually done through a plug-in such as QuickTime.
- pygy_ 8y ago... QuickTime which itself can't play midi anymore.
- feross 8y agoSadly, browsers cannot play MIDI natively. Old version of IE used to be able to via the <bgsound> HTML tag but that's removed in modern versions and no other browsers support it. For fun, I actually rebuilt <bgsound> for the modern web using a Web Component. https://github.com/feross/bg-sound https://github.com/feross/bg-sound