Dana Tue, 2 Feb 2021 00:07:30 -0000 (UTC), bob prohaska 
napis'o:
> When trying to play the sample sounds at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(musical_note)#Middle_C
> the effort fails with
>
> Codec not supported:
> VLC could not decode the format "MIDI" (MIDI Audio)
>
> Is it possible to fix this? I've never tinkered with
> sound on the Pi apart from playing YouTube videos and
> haven't a clue where to start.
>
> This is on a Pi 4 running
> Linux raspberrypi 5.4.83-v7l+ #1379 SMP Mon Dec 14 13:11:54 GMT 2020
> armv7l GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> bob prohaska
>

Midi is not sound.
It is just a instruction to use instrument x with note y.
Each midi player sounds different.

Download midi file and get some kind of midi player.
You will have to find something called "soundfont".
This is a database with sampled instruments.
Or connect it with sythesizer to use it as midi
player.

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