The midic Audio Codec

The midic package consists in the libmidic C library, implementing the midic audio codec, and its associated midicparse and midicplay utilities to parse and play MIDI files. The package is released under a 3-Clause BSD License and is provided “as is” without warranty or support of any kind. The source code will probably become freely available in Autumn 2027.

Research Releases

Our research partners can currently install, test and actually use the current release, which comes with a few short test files. It is necessary to connect into our extranet to download the package. As usual, directions are recalled in the README.txt file: run the following four classic commands in the Terminal:

cd midic-2026-10-07
./configure
make
sudo make install

The midic audio codec’s library libmidic was successfully tested on various modern AArch64 (ARM64) and x86-64 (AMD64) architectures, running under the following operating systems:

• Debian 13.7, 12.15 and 11.11
• macOS 27.2, 26.7.2, 15.8.2 and 14.8.9
• Ubuntu 26.10, 26.04.1 LTS, 24.04.5 LTS and 22.04.5 LTS
• Windows 11 version 26H2, 25H2, 24H2 and 23H2 running Subsystem for Linux (WSL 3.0.3)

2026-10-30