diff -ruN playmidi-2.4/playmidi.c playmidi-2.4-timidity/playmidi.c
--- playmidi-2.4/playmidi.c	Sun May 18 23:48:24 1997
+++ playmidi-2.4-timidity/playmidi.c	Tue Apr  6 03:59:16 1999
@@ -500,7 +500,11 @@
 	    }
 	    newprog = 1;	/* if there's an error skip to next file */
 	    if (error > 0)	/* error holds number of tracks read */
+#ifndef TIMIDITY
 		while ((newprog = playevents()) == 0);
+#else
+		do { newprog = playevents(); timidity_eot(); } while(newprog == 0);
+#endif /* TIMIDITY */
 	    if (find_header)	/* play headers following selected */
 		find_header += newprog;
 	} while (find_header);