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Player Controls
- "PLAY", "PAUSE" and "STOP" are pretty straightforward, I think.
- Browse allows more MIDI files to be loaded and added to the playlist.
Note: you can select multiple files here and they will be all added at once :)
- Playlist combo box allows to select one of the loaded MIDI files.
- Big blue bar on top shows the play position as well as the time.
Play position can be changed by clicking on it where desired.
- Small button on the right chooses a song-looping mode.
- Small button on the left pulls-out/slides-back-in the panel for
advanced controls: soloing/muting individual tracks and changing
tempo. You can also use your mouse scroller to scroll down these tracks.
Advanced Controls
Launching a Custom Playlist
If you have a folder/directory with certain MIDI files of your
choise (e.g. Complete Beatles MIDI albums, if you are a Beatles fan) and
you want to create a shortcut which would launch Java MIDI player playing all
those MIDI files you need to:
- Make sure the folder/directory contains ONLY MIDI files
and (if you wish) subdirectories. Yes, you can have subdirectories
and MIDI files and them. The player will load them recursively.
- Windows users. Make a copy of the "Sample Playlist.bat" file
and change the path name enclosed in quotes ("). This can be
either a relative or absolute path. For example you would write
"C:/My MIDIs/All_Beatles" instead of "sample midi". The digit 4
right before this path relates to the song-looping mode in which
the MIDI player starts:
- Normal
- Repeat
- Play in order
- Random
The presence of this digit is MANDATORY.
- Linux users. Write a small script in the
bin/
directory consisting of one line such as,
java MIDIPlayer 4 root/media/my\ midis/All_Beatles
Remember: MIDIPlayer takes 2 arguments in the following order:
- Number corresponding to the song-looping mode in which
the MIDI player starts
- Normal
- Repeat
- Play in order
- Random
- Path to the directory with MIDI files.
ENJOY! :D
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