foo_midi

foo_midi

foo_midi is a foobar2000 component that adds playback of MIDI files to foobar2000.

It is based on foo_midi by kode54.

Features

• Decodes General MIDI files (.MID, .MIDI, .RMI, .KAR) and several MIDI based formats. (.MIDS, .MDS, .HMI, .HMP, .MUS, .XMI, .XFM, .LDS, .RCP, .R36, .G18, .G36, .XMF/.MXMF, .MMF).
• Supports several synthesizers, several of which do not require any additional files to play back music. The bundled synthesizers which do not require additional files may sound rather basic, though.
• Supports FluidSynth SoundFont (.sf2) based synthesizer, including support for the newer compressed format. (.sf3). SoundFonts may be loaded in a simple, or even complex setup, using either basic .sflist text files encoded in UTF-8 format, but for now, it only supports a bare list of files.
• Supports 32 and 64-bit VST instruments.
• Supports dark mode.

Requirements

• foobar2000 v2.0 or later (32 or 64-bit).
• Tested on Microsoft Windows 10 and later.

Getting started

• Double-click foo_midi.fbk2-component.

or

• Import foo_midi.fbk2-component into foobar2000 using the “File / Preferences / Components / Install…” menu item.

Usage

You can find the user guide here.

Developing

Requirements

To build the code you need:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition or later
• foobar2000 SDK 2025-03-07
• Windows Template Library (WTL) 10.0.10320

The following libraries are included in the code:

• BASS 2.4.17
  • BASSFLAC 2.4.5.5
  • BASSMIDI 2.4.15.3
  • BASSWV 2.4.7.4
  • BASSOPUS 2.4.3.0
  • BASSMPC 2.4.1.2
• FluidSynth 2.4.7
• LibADLMIDI 1.6.1, Yamaha YMF262 and CT1747 (OPL3)
• LibOPNMIDI 1.6.1, Yamaha YM2612 (OPN2), Yamaha YM2608 (OPNA), Yamaha YM3438 (OPN2C) and YMF276 (OPN2L).
• LibEMIDI, Yamaha (OPLL), PSG and SCC
• LibMT32Emu 2.7.2, Roland MT-32, CM-32L and LAPC-I synthesiser modules
• Nuked-OPL3, Yamaha YMF262 and CT1747 (OPL3)
• zlib 1.3.1

To create the deployment package you need:

• PowerShell 7.2 or later

Setup

Create the following directory structure:

3rdParty
    WTL10_10320
bin
bin.x86
foo_midi
out
sdk

• 3rdParty/WTL10_10320 contains Windows Template Library (WTL).
• bin contains a portable version of foobar2000 64-bit for debugging purposes.
• bin/x86 contains a portable version of foobar2000 32-bit for debugging purposes.
• foo_midi contains the Git repository.
• out receives a deployable version of the component.
• sdk contains the foobar2000 SDK.

Issue the following commands:

git clone --recurse https://github.com/stuerp/foo_midi
cd foo_midi
git submodule update --recursive --init

Building

Open foo_midi.sln with Visual Studio and build the solution.

Packaging

To create the component first build the x64 configuration and next the x86 configuration.

Change Log

v3.2.3.0, 2025-10-04

• New: Gain setting for Secret Sauce. It works the same with BASS MIDI. Positive values increase the volume, negative values decrese the volume. The valid range is -1.0 (Silence) to 2.0. Default is 0.0 (No gain). Beware that clipping will occur if you set the value too high.
• New: The VSTi Plug‑Ins setting can contain multiple paths separated by a pipe (|) character (e.g. “c:\VSTi\x86|d:\VSTi\x64”). Make sure there are no unwanted spaces at the beginning or end of the path names.
• Fixed: The preferences dialog accepts negative BASS MIDI gain values. The valid range is -1.0 (Silence) to 2.0. This already worked for JSON soundfont lists.
• Improved: Soundfonts in a JSON soundfont list that not specify their own gain value will also use the gain value from the preferences. Soundfonts in a text soundfont list ignore this value since they have no way to override it.

You can read the full history here.

Acknowledgements / Credits

• Peter Pawlowski for the foobar2000 audio player.
• kode54 for the original foo_midi component.
• Un4seen Developments for the BASS audio library.
• Munt for a multi-platform software synthesiser emulating pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I.
• Alexey Khokholov (Nuke.YKT) for Nuked OPL3.
• Vitaly Novichkov for libADLMIDI, libOPNMIDI and libEDMIDI.
• Mitsutaka Okazaki for Emu de MIDI.
• arch21 for testing and pointing me in the right direction with Secret Sauce and SF3 SoundFonts.
• Tom Moebert for FluidSynth.
• Valley Bell for MidiConverters.
• Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler for zlib.
• Spessasus for testing, advice and SpessaSynth.
• Zoltán Bacskó for testing, advice and MIDI Player.
• Murachue for MMFTool.
• yuno (Yoshio Uno) for fmmidi.
• John Novak for Nuked-SC55-CLAP.

Links

🌐 Home page: https://github.com/stuerp/foo_midi
🌐 Issue tracker: https://github.com/stuerp/foo_midi/issues
🌐 Issue tracker: https://github.com/stuerp/foo_midi/issues

License