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Simon

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« on: 2001-04-16 03:29:00 »
is there any freebie prog out there that lets u convert the .mp3 format to the .mid format?

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« Reply #1 on: 2001-04-16 16:05:00 »
Jeez. You'd be lucky if there's any program that'll let you do that, free or not.

MP3 and MID are two totally different file formats. MP3 stores a digital recording of the sound, like a CD or tape recording. So it's an exact copy of the sound and it sounds the same every time you play it, no matter who's MP3 player you're using. MID is like a musical score - it lists what notes to play on what instruments, and the computer has to synthesise the sounds. So how it sounds depends entirely on the computer.

So, you see why you can't convert them? The computer can't easily tell which instruments are being played, what notes they're playing, and of course vocals couldn't be converted into sheet music anyway.

You *can* convert the other way - MID to MP3 - by basically recording the output of a MID file player.


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« Reply #2 on: 2001-04-16 21:53:00 »
yeah, but its completely pointless. whats the point in converting MIDI to MP3?

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« Reply #3 on: 2001-04-16 22:37:00 »
If you had some great midis you wanted to listen to on your MP3 player?

I'll admit it's pretty unlikely you'd want to do that, though...


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« Reply #4 on: 2001-04-16 23:40:00 »
well winamp supports midi. does anyone here use a different mp3 player from winamp? i dont know why. oopsy daisy, going a bit off topic now.