Media player classic is free...

in order to play midi tunes on a CD, I think you'd have to convert them by running them thru a sound card and recording the sound in another format...then they would BE MP3s, or .wavs with CD format. This could be done, but would be sorta tedious, I'd guess.

There are programs (and almost all programs *I* know anything about are free..*grin*) which will record anything they hear and turn it into another format...it's just that midis are not usually picked.

I just did a quick search and found this, which suggests that you are almost reduced to playing a midi, putting a microphone in front of the speaker, and recording the sound in whatever format you want. The deal is, the whole point of midis is to be generated in the computer in order to compare tunes..etc...Other formats are meant to put on CDs....

You could easily give someone a CD full of midi tunes, but they'd need a computer to play them.