Re: playing my midi files on other computers
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Posted by Jeremy Dimmick on August 30, 2001 at 06:22:44:
In Reply to: Re: playing my midi files on other computers posted by Kris on August 29, 2001 at 19:40:30:
: Now, where can I get software to record MIDIs as MP3s? Is there any shareware, or do I need to buy something? Or is there possibly something that came with my (two year old) computer system that can do it?
Well, this is a two-stage thing: you need a program that can record uncompressed audio (as a .wav file), and then an encoder that can convert it to a more compact and portable format like mp3.
MS Windows comes with a very basic sound recorder program (sndrec32.exe) which would be a start, though I seem to remember it can only record 60s of audio. It's possibly not installed by default: go to Control Panel - Add/Remove programs - Windows setup, and look under Multimedia. Depending on what soundcard you have, it may have come bundled with a program like SoundForge XP which is fairly capable wave recording and editing software. Or you could try the demo of CoolEdit2000, from http://www.download.cnet.com.
Once you have your raw audio data, there's a huge choice of encoding software that lets you convert it to different formats. I think CoolEdit can do this job too. I use a really excellent freeware program, DBPowerAmp Music Converter 5, also available at download.com.
Good luck!
- Re: playing my midi files on other computers Kris 8/30/2001
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