On the emergent dialog, go to the left bottom area and check the Show All radio button, this will allow you to see the preferences window with all the available settings of the program: Open VLC Player and go to Tools > Preferences: Now, you will need the following steps to configure properly VLC to play Midi files. We will place the file in the same VideoLAN\VLC directory as we don't need it in other places:
You can download it on the mentioned link, it will contain a zip with multiple files, of our interest is however the sound font file (GeneralUser GS v1.471.sf2), which is necessary to play midi files. In this case, we will use the GeneralUser sound font which is very complete and lightweight.
In this article, we will explain you how to configure VideoLan VLC media player to play Midi files on your Windows system.
For my surprise, my favorite open source media player VLC was unable to play Midi files by default, so i need to do some extra stuff to make it work. On the recent days, i was experimenting with guitar tabs software, which lead me to work with Midi files, weird XML files and other stuff.