diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index cea2865718d8..478a9964f46a 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -1048,6 +1048,7 @@ in {
   tika = runTest ./tika.nix;
   timescaledb = handleTest ./timescaledb.nix {};
   timezone = handleTest ./timezone.nix {};
+  timidity = handleTestOn ["aarch64-linux" "x86_64-linux"] ./timidity {};
   tinc = handleTest ./tinc {};
   tinydns = handleTest ./tinydns.nix {};
   tinyproxy = handleTest ./tinyproxy.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/timidity/basic.nix b/nixos/tests/timidity/basic.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4bbbac8fbc6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/timidity/basic.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix (
+  { pkgs, ... }:
+  {
+
+    name = "timidity";
+
+    nodes.machine =
+      { pkgs, ... }:
+      {
+        environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.timidity ];
+      };
+
+    testScript = ''
+      start_all ()
+
+      ## TiMidity++ is around.
+      machine.succeed("command -v timidity")
+    '';
+  }
+)
diff --git a/nixos/tests/timidity/default.nix b/nixos/tests/timidity/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8e136a9721e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/timidity/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+inputs: {
+  basic = import ./basic.nix inputs;
+  with-vorbis = import ./with-vorbis.nix inputs;
+}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/timidity/tam-lin.midi b/nixos/tests/timidity/tam-lin.midi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38560e1ade44
Binary files /dev/null and b/nixos/tests/timidity/tam-lin.midi differ
diff --git a/nixos/tests/timidity/with-vorbis.nix b/nixos/tests/timidity/with-vorbis.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..db7d23a8c9c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/timidity/with-vorbis.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import ../make-test-python.nix (
+  { pkgs, ... }:
+  {
+
+    name = "timidity-with-vorbis";
+
+    nodes.machine =
+      { pkgs, ... }:
+      {
+        environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+          (timidity.override { enableVorbis = true; })
+          ffmpeg # # for `ffprobe`
+        ];
+      };
+
+    testScript = ''
+      import json
+
+      start_all()
+
+      ## TiMidity++ is around and it claims to support Ogg Vorbis.
+      machine.succeed("command -v timidity")
+      machine.succeed("timidity --help | grep 'Ogg Vorbis'")
+
+      ## TiMidity++ manages to process a MIDI input and produces an Ogg Vorbis
+      ## output file. NOTE: the `timidity` CLI succeeds even when the input file
+      ## does not exist; hence our test for the output file's existence.
+      machine.succeed("cp ${./tam-lin.midi} tam-lin.midi")
+      machine.succeed("timidity -Ov tam-lin.midi && test -e tam-lin.ogg")
+
+      ## The output file has the expected characteristics.
+      metadata_as_text = machine.succeed("ffprobe -show_format -print_format json -i tam-lin.ogg")
+      metadata = json.loads(metadata_as_text)
+      assert metadata['format']['format_name'] == 'ogg', \
+          f"expected 'format_name' to be 'ogg', got '{metadata['format']['format_name']}'"
+      assert 37 <= float(metadata['format']['duration']) <= 38, \
+          f"expected 'duration' to be between 37s and 38s, got {metadata['format']['duration']}s"
+    '';
+  }
+)
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/timidity/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/timidity/default.nix
index ce6e0c7ae8f0..f41d3b34971a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/timidity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/timidity/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
 , fetchurl
+, nixosTests
 , pkg-config
 , memstreamHook
 , CoreAudio
@@ -9,6 +10,9 @@
 , ncurses
 , alsa-lib
 , buildPackages
+
+## Additional optional output modes
+, enableVorbis ? false, libvorbis
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -29,6 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ]
     ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64) [ memstreamHook ];
+
   buildInputs = [
     libjack2
     ncurses
@@ -37,19 +42,31 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
     CoreAudio
     libobjc
+  ] ++ lib.optionals enableVorbis [
+    libvorbis
+  ];
+
+  enabledOutputModes = [
+    "jack"
+  ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux [
+    "oss"
+    "alsa"
+  ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
+    "darwin"
+  ] ++ lib.optionals enableVorbis [
+    "vorbis"
   ];
 
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-ncurses"
+    ("--enable-audio=" + builtins.concatStringsSep "," enabledOutputModes)
     "lib_cv_va_copy=yes"
     "lib_cv___va_copy=yes"
   ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux [
-    "--enable-audio=oss,alsa,jack"
     "--enable-alsaseq"
     "--with-default-output=alsa"
     "lib_cv_va_val_copy=yes"
   ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
-    "--enable-audio=darwin,jack"
     "lib_cv_va_val_copy=no"
     "timidity_cv_ccoption_rdynamic=yes"
     # These configure tests fail because of incompatible function pointer conversions.
@@ -86,6 +103,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # This fixup step is unnecessary and fails on Darwin
   dontRewriteSymlinks = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
 
+  passthru.tests = nixosTests.timidity;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/timidity/";
     license = licenses.gpl2Plus;