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13 Oct 02 - 01:33 PM (#802316) Subject: Tech: AOLvsExplorer MIDI player From: GUEST,Nick WHen I try to listen to a MIDI file from D Trad the AOL browser looks for a plug-in. WHen I use Explorer as a browser it launches Quicktime and plays the midi. This is on a Mac Why does AOL not find Quicktime, or what plug in is it looking for? It does not give me a plugin name to look for. Nick |
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13 Oct 02 - 02:02 PM (#802330) Subject: RE: Tech: AOLvsExplorer MIDI player From: GUEST I realise that this of no help, but it's because the AOL browser is really crap. |
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13 Oct 02 - 06:16 PM (#802485) Subject: RE: Tech: AOLvsExplorer MIDI player From: GUEST just moving it up |
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14 Oct 02 - 08:51 AM (#802723) Subject: RE: Tech: AOLvsExplorer MIDI player From: Dave Bryant Most of the tunes in DT are in SONGWRIGHT format - there are a few in MIDI format, but I don't think these actually are used from the new version of DT. According to another thread the new DT plays tunes by passing MIDI events (ie individual notes) to QuickTime. This is presumably so that it can synchronise the note with the moving dot. If you were to try and play one of the SONGWRIGHT tune files directly, Quicktime would probably not recognise the file and try to find a "Codec" for it. If you do want to play a tune file directly, you can do it by using the SONGWRITE "SING" software that came with the DOS version of DT, or the "MUSICEASE" software available. Otherwise you can save the tune in ABC format from the DT screen and convert that to MIDI. Obviously if you have a full version of SONGWRIGHT, you can use that to produce a MIDI file. |