HowTo: embedded midi in firefox

**Peturrr** · August 5th, 2006

Info
Midi files aren't working in firefox without a special plugin and ofcourse a midi software 'renderer'.
The plugin doesn't cooperate very nice with Acrobat Reader in firefox, but using xpdf in firefox solves this problem.

Installation
Open up a terminal and execute

Code:

sudo apt-get install timidity mozplugger

Answer yes to all questions and the installation will be complete.

Restart firefox (don't forget to close all instances) and voila, embedded midi files should now play.

if pdf's arent displaying anymore in your browser because of this, you can solve it by doing the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xpdf

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/mozpluggerrc

Put an # before the line with acroread in it, as shown below.

Code:

text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file
#      repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread -geometry +9000+9000 +useFrontEndProgram "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(gv) fill: gv --safer --quiet --antialias -geometry +9000+9000 "$file"

**glennric** · August 14th, 2006

Thanks. The only thing is why does mozplugger not work with acroread?

Edit: Nevermind. I figured out how to make acroread work with mozplugger.
See
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186701

**drx** · October 21st, 2007

I am using Feisty and this istallation hint will not work. :/ Firefox complains that it did not find an applicable plugin for audio/midi.

Are there any other prerequisites apart from these two packages? (Freepats for example is needed for timidity.)

**DagMan** · October 22nd, 2007

I think you would need freepats and timidity both. This worked fine for me in Feisty btw, and in Gutsy, except that I never mess around with Acroread since mozpluger makes good use of other lighter pdf tools as well. Also in gutsy I have to hit play on pages that show a play pause and stop thing where they played automaticaly before and in another Linux.

**stefanauss** · November 3rd, 2007

Originally Posted by drx

I am using Feisty and this istallation hint will not work. :/ Firefox complains that it did not find an applicable plugin for audio/midi.

Are there any other prerequisites apart from these two packages? (Freepats for example is needed for timidity.)

You need to delete /home/[USERNAME]/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat and restart firefox. This is because a bug require mozplugger to be the last plugin loaded (and it will be if you delete that plugin file).