On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 10:10:28AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I tried playing an old midi file yesterday. Apparently "Quod Libet"
> is the default. It's useless. The playback is painfully slow and
> off-pitch and it dies part-way through the file. Then I installed
> "playmidi". It doesn't even start, giving the error message...
>
> open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory

I imagine that you don't have a real midi player, but instead need to
convert (and thus play) a midi file into pcm or whatever, then
timidity has always worked well here.

ael