<div dir="ltr">Hi Rebecca,<div><br></div><div>For a quick solution, if you save the MIDI file, and download and install VLC, you should be able to play the file:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html">http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Or supposedly there are other MIDI players offered in the Mac App Store, though they would also probably refer to downloading/saving the MIDI file then playing it, not playing it directly in the browser.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What version of OSX are you running? I was just reading that Mountain Lion and Mavericks removed MIDI plugins from those OS versions.</div><div><br></div><div>I think XiphQT is to enable playback of Xiph formats using quicktime, and MIDI isn't a Xiph format. The Xiph formats include:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Ogg</div><div>Vorbis</div><div>FLAC</div><div>Theora</div><div>Speex</div><div>Icecast</div></div><div><br></div><div>Or, here is a complicated looking workaround:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/message/23948316#23948316">https://discussions.apple.com/message/23948316#23948316</a><br>
</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Andy<br><br><br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Rebecca Sager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsager@music.org" target="_blank">rsager@music.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Vorbis folks,<div><br></div><div>I use a 64bit MacBookPro, have installed the <span style="font-size:12px">XiphQT to Library/Components as instructions say. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12px">I have set iTunes to accept 32 bit as instruction say.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12px">Using Safari, on a page (in Wikipedia), when I click on “Play”, a new tab/browser window opens and I get the message: “Missing Plug-In”. The url of the page where I get the “Missing Plug-In” message is: </span><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Just_major_third_on_C.mid" target="_blank">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Just_major_third_on_C.mid</a><br>
<br></div><div>Would you please tell me what other steps I need to take to be able to play this audio example?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>Rebecca</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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