Midas wasn't a Cretan. There's a mythical Midas (of the golden touch), a Phrygian, and a Phrygian king Midas in the late 8th century BC (known from cuneiform texts from the time of Sargon II).
What either of them had to do with mufflers when cars had not been invented yet, I don't know.
I apologize, you are right.
Still a long time before Mansa Musa.