{"id":5118,"date":"2018-07-06T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:21:56","slug":"how-to-play-midi-music-files-on-windows-10-with-vlc-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/how-to-play-midi-music-files-on-windows-10-with-vlc-media-player\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play MIDI music files on Windows 10 with VLC Media Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/VLC_logo256.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5125\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/VLC_logo256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>If you missed being able to play MIDI music files on Windows by default, now you can play those tunes you remember again with VLC Media Player version 3.0+. Apparently, there was a security flaw in FluidSynth for VLC version 2.0.x, so MIDI support was dropped until version 3.0+. So download the latest version 3.0.3 (as of this post) along with the free soundfont file VLC recommends, configure Fluidsynth to point to the soundfont through VLC settings, and you&#8217;ll be listening to those old video game tunes in no time!<\/p>\n<p>Follow the instructions here: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.videolan.org\/Midi\/#Play_.mid_.28MIDI.29_files_in_VLC\">https:\/\/wiki.videolan.org\/Midi\/#Play_.mid_.28MIDI.29_files_in_VLC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed being able to play MIDI music files on Windows by default, now you can play those tunes you remember again with VLC Media Player version 3.0+. Apparently, there was a security flaw in FluidSynth for VLC version 2.0.x, so MIDI support was dropped until version 3.0+. So download the latest version 3.0.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[1013,1236,1643,2401,2773,2837],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-tech","tag-free","tag-how-to-play","tag-midi","tag-soundfont","tag-vlc","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}