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QuickTime MIDI Plugin

QuickTime MIDI Plugin is a plugin for Netscape 2.0 or higher. It plays back MIDI files through your Mac's speakers using QuickTime 2.0 or greater. MIDI files are very compact forms of storing lots of musical data. This makes them perfect for the Internet -- they download quickly and contain a lot of information. Since QuickTime MIDI Plugin is a plugin, it allows you to play back MIDI files from directly within Netscape! No need to load any helper applications, or configure Netscape to use them. Just drop QuickTime MIDI Plugin into your "Plug-ins" folder in Netscape and the next time you load Netscape, whenever you click on a MIDI file it will play it for you, instead of downloading it. (Well, it downloads it too, but it plays it as well!)

Here's the QuickTime MIDI Plugin package. It doesn't require any extra extensions except for QuickTime 2.0 or greater.

Download QuickTime MIDI Plugin 2.0b3.

Try it out

Let's listen to some MIDI files! You can listen to all the MIDI files on my web-site without a time limit. However, if you go anywhere else, there is a 2 minute limit on how long the MIDI file will play for.

Notes

Some notes about version 2.0:

It STILL doesn't handle frames very well at all. If you go into a site which uses frames, it may be a good idea to turn off QuickTime MIDI Plugin. This appears to be a flaw in Netscape's Plugin Architecture, since there's no way for a Plugin to tell Netscape to go back or forward a page, and it's difficult to get a frame to go where you want it to!
Much more stable than the previous version! It doesn't crash at all on my PowerMac 7500/100. That's a good sign. I have experienced one or two problems, but I think they're fixed now. If anyone is still having problems with it crashing, please e-mail me ASAP!
Is now PowerPC native! (Finally figured out those darned shared libraries!)
Allows ouput using the MIDI Manager instead of QuickTime. I haven't tested this feature very much, so use it at your own risk! (I think it works though.) Don't switch between QuickTime and MIDI Manager while a song is playing, though - this causes trouble sometimes!
Uses my new Plugin Communications Architecture, which lets different plugins send messages to each other. If anyone else is interested in a C++ library to get plugins to talk to each other, send me an e-mail and I'll send you a copy of the library. It lets DIFFERENT plugins send messages to one another -- a MIDI plugin could send messages to a QuickTime Movie plugin, for example, if they both registered into the PLCA.

Comments and suggestions

If anyone has any comments or suggestions for QuickTime MIDI Plugin, please e-mail me.

Shareware Fees

Since QuickTime MIDI Plugin is shareware, I am also asking you to send in $10 to register it. (You may want to get a registered copy of QuickTime MIDI Player instead. See the QuickTime MIDI Player home page for details.) Registering QuickTime MIDI Plugin means that you can listen to more than the first 3 minutes of a MIDI file.

When you send in your registration, PLEASE send me your e-mail address too.

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