title: Playing cross-platform, mobile, MIDI in Python for Kivy - is this possible?
body: <p><strong>I'd like to load and play '.mid' MIDI files in Kivy but mainly on mobile platforms (i.e. IOS and Android)</strong>.</p>
  <p>I'm assuming that, I don't want to get into the intricacies of native-C/C++ based stuff (i.e. to avoid have to cross-compile, I'm not a seasoned Python dev), so the library, most probably, would need to be pure Python.</p>
  <p>I'll start the bidding with some Frameworks I've found (some require C/C++), I've used none (0, zero), maybe someone could offer some feedback (or they might come in useful for the wider community):</p>
  <p><strong>BTW, it would be great if the/a MIDI library could also read the lyrics from a '.mid' file</strong></p>
  <h1>Python Midi libraries</h1>
  <p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/music21" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://web.mit.edu/music21</a><br />
  <a href="https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21</a><br />
  <a href="https://code.google.com/p/midiutil" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://code.google.com/p/midiutil</a> &lt;- Pure Python, no lyrics (?)<br />
  <a href="https://code.google.com/p/mingus" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://code.google.com/p/mingus</a><br />
  <a href="http://mxm.dk/products/public/pythonmidi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mxm.dk/products/public/pythonmidi</a><br />
  <a href="http://das.nasophon.de/mididings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://das.nasophon.de/mididings</a><br />
  <a href="https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi</a>
  <a href="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/202595" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/anonymous/202595</a> &lt;- smidi.py<br />
  <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alarndham.net%2Fservice%2Fpys60%2Fsmidi.py" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alarndham.net%2Fservice%2Fpys60%2Fsmidi.py</a><br />
  <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/midi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/midi</a> &lt;- C for Alsa (!)<br />
  <a href="http://www.fluidsynth.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.fluidsynth.org</a> &lt;- For pypi midi
  <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/fluidsynth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://sourceforge.net/p/fluidsynth</a> &lt;- C based</p>