


VLC Player needs to be able to play the MIDI file before transcoding. Once the application has been installed in your system, proceed with the next step to confirm that you have a FluidSynth MIDI synthesizer. You can download the VLC Player installed on the official website here.
MIDI TO MP3 WITH SOUNDFONT HOW TO
The VLC player allows the user to do this (transcode) graphically as well, however as this is a programming blog, we are interested in how to do this with the command line so we can use it in our own applications. In this article, I'll explain to you how to easily convert a MIDI file to MP3 using VLC in the command line/batch. I searched a while looking for the best option to do this and ended up using my favorite media player VLC, which allows transcoding multiple videos/songs to different formats graphically and from the binary using the command line. So the last option is to simply create a compressed audio (MP3) version of the synthesized MIDI file. The MIDI file by itself is quite small, however, the player to play a MIDI isn't small but quite bigger. However, the entire tab and player shouldn't be loaded every time the user decides to play a single song, instead, it would be better to load something lighter, like a MIDI file. As a new module of a project that has a huge collection of Guitar Pro tabs, a visitor of the project should be able to play a preview of the tab in the browser.
