Re: [pygame] MIDI player selecting wrong instruments

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:14:03PM +0000, Matthew wrote:
>    Is there *really* no-one on this list who could at least give me a clue as 
>    to where in the pygame code to look at how the midi player decides which   
>    instrument files to open? :'-(                                             

I am pretty sure that pygame uses SDL_mixer to play midi files. 
SDL_mixer uses an embedded copy of timidity, which is almost certainly 
not exactly the same as whatever standalone version of timidity you may 
have tested with. The original author of timidity abandoned it in 1995, 
and the timidity++ fork has not been maintained since 2004. I have no 
idea exactly where the SDL_mixer version of timidity branched off, nor 
how well patches have travelled back and forth between SDL_mixer and 
timidity++, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was slightly different in 
some esoteric ways.

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James Paige