src/apps/midiplayer/readme.html

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   7 <h1>Haiku MIDI Player 1.0.1</h1>
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   9 <p>This is a simple application to play MIDI songs.</p>
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  11 <h3>To play a MIDI song, you can:</h3>
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  14   <li>double-click it, or</li>
  15   <li>drag it on the MidiPlayer icon, or</li>
  16   <li>drag it into the MidiPlayer window, or</li>
  17   <li>type "MidiPlayer song.mid" in Terminal.</li>
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  20 <p>Hopefully, most of the options will be obvious, although Live Input may require a few lines of explanation.</p>
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  22 <p>The <b>Live Input</b> feature enables you to attach other applications to the Haiku software synthesizer, for example a virtual MIDI keyboard. MidiPlayer looks at the MIDI roster for compatible producer endpoints. If none are found, Live Input is not available.</p>
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  24 <h3>Differences from the BeOS R5 MidiPlayer:</h3>
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  26 <ul>
  27   <li>User interface looks slightly different (better?)</li>
  28   <li>Play and Stop are now one and the same button.</li>
  29   <li>There is no Open File... function.</li>
  30   <li>You cannot set the Quality of the sound (always 44100 Hz).</li>
  31   <li>While the song fades out, the scope temporarily freezes; the R5 MidiPlayer kept repainting during the fade-out (which, admittedly, looks better). At one point, the Haiku MidiPlayer did that too but the code made my head hurt, so I pulled it out again :-)</li>
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  34 <p>If people really <i>really</i> want these missing features, then feel free to add them :-)</p>
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