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Handle Midi playing events

In this tutorial we are going to see how to handle MIDI playing events in a Java Desktop Application. You might find this particularly useful when you want to create a simple media player inside your application and you want to monitor the progress media playing.

In short, in order to handle MIDI playing events you should:

  • Obtain the default Sequencer connected to a default device using MidiSystem.getSequencer().
  • Create a stream from a file to the MIDI file.
  • Sets the current sequence on which the sequencer operates using sequencer.setSequence.
  • Create a new MetaEventListener and override meta method. Use MetaMessage object to obtain information about the event.
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package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.desktop;
 
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
 
import javax.sound.midi.MetaEventListener;
import javax.sound.midi.MetaMessage;
import javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem;
import javax.sound.midi.Sequencer;
 
public class HandleMidiPlayingEvents {
 
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
        // Obtains the default Sequencer connected to a default device.
        Sequencer sequencer = MidiSystem.getSequencer();
 
        // Opens the device, indicating that it should now acquire any
        // system resources it requires and become operational.
        sequencer.open();
 
        // create a stream from a file
        InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(new File("midifile.mid")));
 
        // Sets the current sequence on which the sequencer operates.
        // The stream must point to MIDI file data.
        sequencer.setSequence(is);
 
        sequencer.addMetaEventListener(new MetaEventListener() {
            public void meta(MetaMessage event) {
                if (event.getType() == 88) {
                    System.out.println("Sequencer started playing");
                }
                else if (event.getType() == 47) {
                    System.out.println("Sequencer finished playing");
                }
            }
        });
 
        // Starts playback of the MIDI data in the currently loaded sequence.
        sequencer.start();
 
    }
 
}

 
This was an example on how to handle MIDI playing events.

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