I just had a PCB made up using a DIN-5 socket for MIDI Input and annoyingly the pin configuration on Fritzing is wrong for this part - Pins 4 & 5 are back to front. I’m using the part labelled below which is the Sparkfun DIN Connector.
Wrong pins:
midi_conn_female_support, din_5_female_ support v. 4
Correct pins:
There’s another part which has the correct pin configuration called DIN-5 jack (MIDI). You can see the issue in the attached screenshot where I’ve connected pin 4 of all connectors.
You need to rotate the data sheet (which I was too lazy to do) to align it properly, but the part appears to match the pin out in the data sheet which would make the part correct. That may or may not match whatever connector you are using however.
It looks like the Sparkfun data sheet is actually labelled incorrectly.
On their data sheet, the pins are numbered 24153, whereas the MIDI spec for a socket would be 35241. A MIDI tutorial on the Sparkfun website even has it labelled correctly, as shown below!
Also, there seems to be no difference between the Sparkfun part and other 5 pin DIN sockets available online.
I expect the folks that made the part (which was likely done with the rest of the spartfun parts in 2015) used the data sheet (that is what I would have done.) It is possible to change it, although at this point it requires a software release to do so. You should probably open an issue against the parts repo on github here to see if someone wants to update it. As noted it appears to agree with what the manufacturer specifies that pin numbers to be so they may not want to change it.
