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Windows Forum / Windows Media / General Topics / December 2006Midi file
Can a midi file be played from a CD, or can they be converted to a wma , wav file or a type that can be played?  Signaturechequer >Can a midi file be played from a CD, or can they be converted to a wma , wav >file or a type that can be played? You can only really record the playback of your sound card (using a looped cable from Line Out to Line In) for MIDI - it's a series of notes or instructions to play notes, rather than an actual sound wave stored as digital data (like WAV and ~advisedly~ WMA formats are) Typically I'd use software like Audacity for recording the sound produced by the sound card - whlie I might play the MIDI file back using Quicktime or Media player to produce the actual sound output. You can download Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ A stereo cable to go from socket to socket would probably be no more than a couple of dollars - try Frys or Circuit City (or, Maplin or RS in the UK) HTH Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs I may not have expressed my question correctly. I downloaded a lot of carols, all Midi sequence files, and burnt them to a CD They copied to the CD Ok and can be played by W Media Player if I go ' Explore the CD ' then R/click and select Play. This also opens ' Windows Media Player ' Ver 9.00 After playing one I can then play the rest by WMP/File/ Open the selecting. If I put the disc in my CD drive I can't get them to AutoPlay nor will they play in a CD Player. As you will guess from this I know absolutely nothing about Windows Media Player or how to use it. chequer > >Can a midi file be played from a CD, or can they be converted to a wma , wav > >file or a type that can be played? [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs Yes, I understood what you said, and refer you to my first answer ;-) The MIDI *data* you burned to a CD which could be played in media player was just that - instructions to the PC to play a series of musical notes. In fact you burnt a *Data CD* To play the music in a standalone CD player, you'd need to burn an *Audio CD*, which you cannot do with MIDI data because it's not an audio waveform - which a CD player could play back - but a series of musical notes which must be interpreted by a keyboard or drum machine or a PC's media player / quicktime / etc. So - Did you buy that audio cable yet ? ;-)) HTH Cheers - Neil >I may not have expressed my question correctly. >I downloaded a lot of carols, all Midi sequence files, and burnt them to a CD [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs Thanks Neil, My lad, who knows more than I do is going to have a look at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and get back to me. Signaturechequer > Yes, I understood what you said, and refer you to my first answer ;-) > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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