play MIDI files in python?

Question

I'm looking for a method to play midi files in python. It seems python does not support MIDI in its standard library. After I searched, I found some python midi librarys such as pythonmidi. However, most of them can only create and read MIDI file without playing function. I would like to find a python midi library including playing method. Any recommendations? Thanks!

Answer 1

The pygame module can be used to play midi files.

http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/music.html

See the example here:

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/216979

a whole bunch of options available at:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic

and also here which you can modify to suit your purpose: http://xenon.stanford.edu/~geksiong/code/playmus/playmus.py

Answer 2

Just to add a minimal example (via DaniWeb):

# conda install -c cogsci pygame import pygame  def play_music(midi_filename):   '''Stream music_file in a blocking manner'''   clock = pygame.time.Clock()   pygame.mixer.music.load(midi_filename)   pygame.mixer.music.play()   while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():     clock.tick(30) # check if playback has finished      midi_filename = 'FishPolka.mid'  # mixer config freq = 44100  # audio CD quality bitsize = -16   # unsigned 16 bit channels = 2  # 1 is mono, 2 is stereo buffer = 1024   # number of samples pygame.mixer.init(freq, bitsize, channels, buffer)  # optional volume 0 to 1.0 pygame.mixer.music.set_volume(0.8)  # listen for interruptions try:   # use the midi file you just saved   play_music(midi_filename) except KeyboardInterrupt:   # if user hits Ctrl/C then exit   # (works only in console mode)   pygame.mixer.music.fadeout(1000)   pygame.mixer.music.stop()   raise SystemExit