Error playing midi files from Wikipedia in VLC for Chromebook

Device: ASUS C100P Chromebook VLC version: Latest ChromeOS app which identifies itself as "VLC 1.7.3 for Android"

Steps to reproduce:

• Download a midi file from Wikipedia, for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/%22Texas_%26_Pacific%22_boogie_woogie_bass.mid
• Attempt to play it in VLC. File does not play and VLC creates a log containing:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: There is no Activity which handles filePath = file:///data/data/org.chromium.arc/external/3901BEE8EB9DF488C2676AAD41A34B25/_Texas_%26_Pacific__boogie_woogie_bass.mid mimeType=application/octet-stream
	at org.chromium.arc.helper.FileHandlerLaunchHelperActivity.buildLaunchIntent(FileHandlerLaunchHelperActivity.java:122)
	at org.chromium.arc.helper.FileHandlerLaunchHelperActivity.onMessage(FileHandlerLaunchHelperActivity.java:162)
	at org.chromium.arc.ArcMessageBridge$1.handleMessage(ArcMessageBridge.java:75)
	at org.chromium.arc.ArcMessageBridgeService$3.run(ArcMessageBridgeService.java:238)
	at Android.MODEL(App Runtime for Chrome)
	at Android.VERSION(5.0)
	at Android.FINGERPRINT(chromium/arc/bare_metal_arm:5.0/54.5021.660.0/54.5021.660.0:user/release-keys)