Midi MediaElement support in Silverlight 3

Question

I am trying to build a small silverlight application to support some midi files as well. I've tried using the Media element, but I don't think that it can read midi files. Does any of you know a workaround, without the need to convert the midi file?

Answer 1

Silverlight doesn't support MIDI. There are a few ways you could handle this:

• Decode the MIDI (using something like MIDI Toolkit) and synthesize the audio using a custom MediaStreamSource.
• Decode the MIDI and use it to trigger MP3 samples.
• Include another control in the page which can play MIDI, such as the Windows Media Player control.