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Re: Music is the most fun when stored via...

by hardburn (Abbot)
on May 23, 2003 at 17:59 UTC ( [id://260422]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Music is the most fun when stored via...

MIDI might sound primitive, but you can often find decent fan-created tracks of your favorite old video games in MIDI if you dig enough.

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Re: Re: Music is the most fun when stored via...
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 23, 2003 at 18:45 UTC
    Not to mention that it is very easy to create MIDI music with Perl!
Re: Music is the most fun when stored via...
by jonadab (Parson) on May 28, 2003 at 01:44 UTC

    MIDI is only primitive if your soundcard is a piece of trash. MIDI is like sheet music: sheet music is as good as your orchestra/voice/whatever, and MIDI is as good as your soundcard/synthesizer/whatever.

    And there's no denying, you can store a whole lot of music on a hard-drive full of MIDI files.

    The only music I don't like MIDI for is music that really has to have the lyrics, such as Weird Al's stuff, or a capella music. For that, there's WAV format. I have about 6 Gigs of WAV on my hard drive, consisting of the songs I like from various albums. I have way more music in MIDI format, but it takes up a lot less space and sounds just as good.

    The formats I *don't* like are the lossy formats, such as MP3. I like my music to sound good, and lossy formats don't deliver.

    Of course, there's always that .pl format... mutters something incoherent about polyphonic fractals


    {my$c;$ x=sub{++$c}}map{$ \.=$_->()}map{my$a=$_->[1]; sub{$a++ }}sort{_($a->[0 ])<=>_( $b->[0])}map{my@x=(& $x( ),$ _) ;\ @x} split //, "rPcr t lhuJnhea eretk.as o";print;sub _{ord(shift)*($=-++$^H)%(42-ord("\r"))};

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