help winamp

[Pyrosaphuron]

I have been using an older version of Winamp for about 15 years primarily because I use a bunch of plugins for game music like PSF, SPC, and VGM that have plugins that do not work on any more recent media player of any sort. Up until now, I had no problems, but now that I have a new computer and Windows 10 pro, MIDI files have stopped playing. No matter how I open them, Winamp will not plauy them. Microsoft says “use Windows Media Player”, but that will not play my other files and I do not use garbage players like WMP anyway as it has almost no functionality and tons of adware. What is the issue here? What did Windows 10 Pro do to stop MIDI play functionality? This is really upsetting since NO media player released in last 15 years comes close to Winamp’s ease of use, and no other player actually plays all, the video game music rip files as above. Not only that, but the new version of Winamp is literally vaporware now. What is going on? Were MIDIs phased out or something? How do I get the ability to play them back? This same player does work on Windows 8 and Windows 10 Home, and my Windows 10 Pro is a fresh clean install with zero bugs. ONLY MIDI files don’t work. What gives? What did they do to disable MIDI playback outside Windows Media Player and how do I fix their crap?

[veeg]

Hello

Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon..

@Bastet

[Bastet]

I don’t use Winamp so cannot give specific fixes.
I thought Winamp had been discontinued & was no longer supported so it may be a case that it is not compatbile with Windows 10. I would try installing the program using compatibility mode & see if this plays MIDI files.
If not then I would try K-Lite codec pack to see if this adds the codecs required, it also has its own player which plays files WMP doesn’t.
I would check to see if Groove Music will play MIDI files as this is the WMP replacement.

[Bruce]

I stopped using winamp years ago, can’t remember why now, and jumped on to VLC player.
according to this website, it plays MIDI files; How to play Midi files on the VLC Media Player 3.0.8 | Our Code World

[Bruce]

@Pyrosaphuron, do you still need help?

[Rustys]

Closed lack of responce from poster on any forum they posed question on.