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MIDI Beeper
MIDI beeper is a Python program to play MIDI
files by beeping through the computer's beeper instead of using proper sound
circuits. If you try to play chords or polyphony, it will rapidly switch
between alternate notes like an old office telephone. It sounds awful, but
it might be useful when you really have to play a MIDI file but have no
sound device attached. It should work on any machine that has the "beep"
command (install "beep" package from your Linux/Unix package manager). It
has been tested on a PC speaker and on an NSLU2's internal speaker.
On the NSLU2, playing music with beep works in Debian etch
but not so well in Debian Lenny; you can
try compiling this modified beep.c
instead (remember the chmod 4755 mentioned in the man page).
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