How to Install midi, midi_maniulation for Python on Linux?

In this article, we are going to see how to install midi Python on Linux. MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a way to connect devices that make and control sounds. And there is a python framework for this midi manipulation. Using this python framework, we can read MIDI files from disk, build new MIDI streams, process, filter preexisting streams, and write our changes back to disk. In this article, we are going to learn how we can install midi for python on our Linux machine.

Installing midi on Linux

Step 1: Install the aptitude package manager by running the following command:

sudo apt install aptitude -y

Running the above command will result in the installation of the aptitude package manager onto your Linux machine.

Step 2: To install the midi, head towards the midi GitHub repository and clone it on your desktop.

git clone https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi.git

Step 3: Download the dependencies to build this package by running the following command into your Linux terminal.

• Installing python

sudo aptitude install python

Installing python

• Installing setup tools to build the package.

sudo aptitude install python-setuptools

Installing setuptools

Step 3: Installing the midi by running the setup.py file.

cd python-midi
sudo python setup.py install

midi installed

Step 4: To verify the installation, run the following command into your terminal:

python
import midi
print(midi)

midi installed

This will print the installation location of the midi, which confirms the installation of the onto your system.