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Re:Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files by grawprog on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:08PM (#17931584)
That's really cool. I struggled to get a good midi engine working on linux and even what I have still messes around sometimes. Plus the instruments, while similar, aren't quite the same as those old school midi tunes from back in the day.

I thought maybe my struggle was unique to Linux. Setting up sound drivers for recording, was fairly complicated even without adding midi into it. Though after the initial setup linux's audio production tools are fairly awesome. I never realized midi support had declined so much all over. It's nice to see projects that keep old technology alive, sometimes older, more simple things really do have appeal and it's always sad when things kind of vanish unnoticed.

Re:Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files by feross on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:42PM (#17931715)
> I never realized midi support had declined so much all over

I actually have no idea why MIDI support was removed from browsers. I understand that <bgsound> was a bad idea – autoplaying audio and all – but why did MIDI file support have to go too? I was under the impression that web browsers took backwards compatibility pretty seriously and deleting a supported audio format and breaking most of the sound on the early web seems like something that wouldn't fly today.

Does anyone know the story here?

Re:Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:25AM (#17932699)
Perhaps autoplaying audio wasn't obnoxious enough, so autoplaying video became top priority? /s