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Thanks for the VLC suggestion, I hadn't thought of that. Another possibility is FluidSynth. As you say, both also require sourcing and configuring a suitable SoundFront file. I expect I'll go down one of those routes, though the loss of native MIDI support in wxWidgets on Macos would be a shame.

Can you start a player in the OSX (not wxWidgets one) - I think iTunes or something, and try to play the file(s) in question? That's a good question, and one that may throw some light on what's going on. The canonical media player in Macos is QuickTimePlayer. The version distributed with the operat...

Over on the wxPython GitHub issue, Robin Dunn has posted a link to a 4.1 preview build that seems to partly address this issue: https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/issues/1413#issuecomment-549659032 However this version of the library won't play MIDI files on either 10.15 Catalina or on 10.14 Mojav...

Worth noting that I've opened an issue for this in wxPython's GitHub: https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/issues/1413

For what it's worth I also have this problem on 10.15 Catalina, but not on 10.14 Mojava. I've yet to check what happens with the C example media player, but judyboon's experience does suggest that the problem is probably Python-related.