Dear all,
many programs that can read MIDI accept both '.mid' and '.midi' as file
name extension, however many other programs only accept '.mid'.
The only noteworthy reference I could find online is
http://www.midi.org/aboutmidi/tut_midifiles.php
where they explicitly say that «the PC file
Il 05/01/15 13.34, David Kastrup ha scritto:
.mid happens to be also Map Interchange Data.
I didn't know about this.
Which programs are many other programs, under which systems?
I'm sorry, I actually meant to write some instead of many.
The ones I can test right now are REAPER all versions
Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com writes:
Dear all,
many programs that can read MIDI accept both '.mid' and '.midi' as
file name extension, however many other programs only accept '.mid'.
The only noteworthy reference I could find online is
- Original Message -
From: Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com
To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 12:02 PM
Subject: Change default MIDI file extension to '.mid'
Dear all,
many programs that can read MIDI accept both '.mid' and '.midi' as file
name extension
Il 05/01/15 15.35, Phil Holmes ha scritto:
This is the default on my Windows Vista PC system. Don't know why, but
that's what appears when I create midi output.
Apparently I got many things wrong with my message. :)
I had a look in the code and in scm/lily.scm midi-extension is set to
'mid'
Am 2015-01-05 um 18:34 schrieb David Kastrup d...@gnu.org:
Ambivalent at best. What is the actual problem case we are talking
about? Which programs are many other programs, under which systems?
Without personal settings, OSX (and Safari on OSX) knows to play only .mid, not
.midi.
Phil Holmes wrote Monday, January 05, 2015 2:35 PM
From: Davide Liessi davide.lie...@gmail.com
I think that LilyPond should use the most widely accepted '.mid' as
default extension for the MIDI files it produces, instead of current
'.midi'.
This is the default on my Windows Vista PC
