Hey, #LazyFedi, what's your preferred #MIDI player? (On #FreeBSD, if it matters.) I have zero experience with this.
@carson
What I'm using on #FreeBSD is multimedia/audacious{-plugins} as I don't have any physical #MIDI devices. You'll also want audio/fluid-soundfont, too.
Possibly you'll need building audio/fluidsynth with SNDFILE option enabled (disabled by default) to make it working for MIDI files.