MIDI Playback Doesn't Work After Uninstalling

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Joined: May 16, 2017 - 13:03
MIDI Playback Doesn't Work After Uninstalling

So I uninstalled VirtualMIDISynth and now when I try to play any midis in Media Player, there's no sound. Can somebody help me with this? Thanks!

I'm on Windows 10.

Posts: 1972
Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
Re: MIDI Playback Doesn't Work After Uninstalling

There's an error in 2.0 and 2.01 setup procedure that misses to restore the default MIDI device for ActiveMovie.
A fix will be included in next version (2.0.2 or 2.1.0), whichever comes first.

Meanwhile here's a hotfix to apply that restores 2 registry keys values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\{4EFE2452-168A-11D1-BC76-00C04FB9453B}\Default MidiOut Device\MidiOutId
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum 64-bit\{4EFE2452-168A-11D1-BC76-00C04FB9453B}\Default MidiOut Device\MidiOutId

Download the attachment, extract it in a folder of your choice and double click on the .reg file.

Thanks for reporting it.

PS: since unregistered users can't see the attachment, here's reg file content; open an empty notepad instance, paste file content to it and save as fix.reg (beware that file extension must be .reg and not .reg.txt as usually Notepad does), then double click the created file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\{4EFE2452-168A-11D1-BC76-00C04FB9453B}\Default MidiOut Device]
"MidiOutId"=dword:00000000
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum 64-bit\{4EFE2452-168A-11D1-BC76-00C04FB9453B}\Default MidiOut Device]
"MidiOutId"=dword:00000000
 
Attachments (Only registered users)
activemovie_default_device_fix.zip