I burned all the new AIFFs onto a CD using Toast and popped it in the Mac, but iTunes won't play it, nor will it import anything off it (they're still grayed out).
If I double click any of the songs, QuickTime Player opens up, and it's the only thing that will play them. QuickTime Help is a confused mess to me (oh, for a real manual!) so I can't figure out how to get iTunes to play these newly converted AIFFs.
Anybody know how I can get iTunes to play or import them? Why should these AIFFs be different from any others?
TIA
Tom
On Dec 10, 2004, at 5:38 AM, Brandon Wise wrote:
Those are MIDI files. They contain basic information about the song such as the patches (instruments) used, the notes played, the velocity, etc. You have to have a MIDI sound source to play these files back. In some cases that could be a musical keyboard, or QuickTime since it has a MIDI sound system as part of its framework. iTunes, won't recognize them becase they aren't digital audio, they are data files.
You might be able to use QuickTime Pro to export them to a digital audio format: AIFF, ACC, etc., but I'm not 100% on that. There are a number of MIDI packages for the Mac, as music has always been one of its fortes. Google away and good luck.
Hope this helps, Brandon in Durham
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:50:47 -0700, Tom Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have a bunch of piano music pieces on my hard drive with the suffix .mid. I don't remember how they got there, but I like the music.
However, iTunes won't play them, import them, or convert them, unless
I don't know how to make it do it. I can navigate to the folder they're
in, but iTunes shows them as grayed out. I thought maybe I could use
iTunes to convert them to aiff, so that I could drop them into iMovie,
but you can't choose something that's grayed out.
So I thought I'd try to burn them to a CD with Toast 6, then see if
iTunes would import them from the CD (as well as have a nice music CD),
but Toast won't accept them ("not in a supported format").
I tried to drop one into iMovie, but after the colored wheel spun for awhile it disappeared and there's nothing in the sound track.
If I double-click on them, Quicktime will play them, and they sound great, but that's about all I can do with them.
So, what are these weird .mid things, and does anybody know how I can convert them into something that iTunes, Toast, and iMovie will recognize?
This is iTunes 4.7 and iMovie 4 on a G4 running 10.3.6.
Any help appreciated very much!
Tom
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