Finale Forum

Does anyone know how to set up Finale to open the MIDI files that are sometimes found on websites? (Windows 10). Finale is not offered as one of the available apps in the Default Programs settings.

There are a few websites with embedded MIDI files which cannot be downloaded, and so need to be played using a suitable App. VLC player doesn't open MIDI files (at least on my PC), but I have Finale and so would like to use it also for playing online files.

Florio

Finale would be a poor choice for streaming MIDI. The program is just not designed for that sort of thing.

Can you not set VLC to play MIDI files? Windows Media Player? Quicktime?

Finale can only download the file, import it, and then you'll have to press play to get playback.

To listen to embedded MIDI files in webpages, you need a browser plug-in that handles the format, or possibly some MIDI playing app, if your browser can use apps as helpers.

On the Mac side, Apple removed support in the browser (and elsewhere) for MIDI files ages ago, so we're in a similar boat.

BuonTempi wrote:Finale can only download the file, import it, and then you'll have to press play to get playback.

To listen to embedded MIDI files in webpages, you need a browser plug-in that handles the format, or possibly some MIDI playing app, if your browser can use apps as helpers.

On the Mac side, Apple removed support in the browser (and elsewhere) for MIDI files ages ago, so we're in a similar boat.

It can still be done but, like Flash, Java and other plugin helpers, there are major security issues. Developers are being encouraged to port all of that over to HTML 5. The default is to cripple everything else.

All of the browsers stated that you wouldn’t be able to add any such helpers as of Jan. 2017... Yea, well it’s now 2018 so that didn’t happen but still, the internet is moving slowly into compliance. I access hundreds of web sites a week in my music industry day job. I now get Flash, Java and MIDI requests less than one a month total.