You may have had a better answer by now.. IMO it's never worth fiddling with this kind of thing when you have a paper copy that can be reinput. Much less error IME than transferring a midi file across. It is too easy to miss mistakes in the original file. It may be just me, but if I have a paper copy I always reenter without trying midi.
Steve P. On 3 Jan 2012, at 01:42, Linda Worsley <[email protected]> wrote: > Help! I have been receiving MIDI files from a client--created originally > in Encore, and saved as a standard MIDI file. I have managed to open > fifteen of them in Finale and create Finale scores using the MIDI > information, comparing it to a PDF of the Encore printout for accuracy. > > Encore is, of course, a horror show, but most of the time I can make these > work. > > The 16th file, created in the same way, refuses to open and gives me an > error message that says Finale cannot open this filetype. I downloaded it > the same way I did the others. Like the others, it has .mid at the end of > the file name, and he PDF of that file is perfect. I've tried opening it > by double clicking, by opening it "within the program" and every other way > I can think of. I even tried importing it in xml, but nothing works. It > imported a blank score. > > The client "reconstituted" the MIDI file from the original Encore file, as > he had the others, and they were just fine, opened like a charm. This > one... well, does anyone have any advice? (Just make a new score from the > pdf?.... he insists that there will be too many errors in translation. But > that may be my last resort. > > Thanks for any words of wisdom. > > Linda Worsley > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
